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Questia Offers a Look at a Day in the Life of Today's College Students
HOUSTON (November 14, 2001) - Worries abound for parents who sent their children off to college just a few months ago. Financial irresponsibility, skipping class, and even binge drinking and drug experimentation, are all fears parents face. A new study released by Questia Media, reveals how college students actually spend their time.
The good news: Most parents need not worry that their student is abusing his or her college education. Rest assured, today's college student is aware of the importance of attending class and mindful of spending too much money.
Following are some highlights from Questia's survey that polled 1,500 college students and parents:
On Leisure Time
- 53% of students watch less than two hours of television per day
- 49% of students go out socially one to two nights per week, but 63% rarely or never drink and 64% have never experimented with drugs
- 69% of students admit to catching more than seven hours of shut-eye per day
- 19% of students admit to not calling home enough
On Study Habits
- 66% of students deny skipping class even once a week
- 40% of students spend one to two hours online per day
- 87% of students polled prefer to conduct late-night research via the Internet from home or in their dorm room rather than trekking to the library, and 81% spend three hours or less at the library per week
On Finances
- 28% of students claim to sometimes ask for a handout from Mom and Dad, while 53% of students pay for at least half of their college life
- 75% of students spend $50 or less per week on entertainment such as dining out and shopping
Questia's survey was conducted online and analyzed by a leading national marketing research firm, Greenfield Consulting Group. Sixty-four percent of the survey participants were freshmen or sophomores; 20% were juniors; and 16% were seniors.
Students' free time is of particular interest to Questia, the world's largest online
library of books featuring the full content of more than 65,000 books (including those that are out of print) and journal articles. Every page in each of the books is always available to Questia users. With today's students opting to conduct the majority of their academic research online, Questia provides the tools necessary to research and write papers from the safety and comfort of a dorm room, eliminating late-night trips to the library and the possibility of checked-out books. This cuts down hours of time - an average of nine hours on a research paper. Questia enables users to personalize books by highlighting and making notes in them and to write better papers by automatically creating footnotes and bibliographies in various formats.
Access to the entire table of contents and the first two pages of any book is free. Questia is available, at www.questia.com, for a monthly subscription rate of $9.95 for the first month and $19.95 for each consecutive month and an annual rate of $149.95.
About Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students write better papers in January 2001. Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the Questia SM service will enable them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston with offices in New York and Los Angeles, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge. Visit www.questia.com for more information.
CONTACTS:
Ann Brimberry
Questia Media, Inc
713-358-2704
abrimberry@questia.com
Richards/Gravelle Public Relations
Alyssa Graf
214-891-2971
alyssa_graf@richards.com
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