THE PRIORITIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) AMONG STUDENT OF SRIPATUM UNIVERSITY IN THAILAND

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal action to ensure peace and prosperity by 2030 by rising to meet various challenges. Achieving the SDGs requires every party to take part, including unversity students This research aimed to study prioritization of SDGs and identify knowledge, perceptions and awareness about the SDGs among students at Sripatum Univesity in Thailand. The research instrument is divided into 2 parts: 1) priority level 17 goals of SDGs 2) Opinions about knowledge, perceptions and awareness. The data was collected using online questionnaire from 125 first-year students from 2 clusters. Statistics used in data analysis were frequency, percentage and standard deviation. The result showed that most of the respondents were male, 83 people of 66.4%. The age range is 18 -21 years old, 94 people, representing 75.2%. Clusters are science and engineer of 53 people accounted for 42.4% and social science of 72 people accounted for 57.6%. The top 5 SDGs according to mean were SDg4: Quality Education (mean = 4.51), SDG13: Climate Action (mean = 4.50 ), SDG3: Good Health and Well-Being (mean = 4.49), SDG8: Decent Work and Economic Growth(mean = 4.47), SDG5: Gender Equality (mean = 4.33). Of the total respondents, They believed that it is necessary to know about the SDGs 91.2 %, to perceive 92.0% and to aware 93.6%.