Abstract:Today’s youth are future of tomorrow. They are the future elite of the country, with both mental and physical strength and determination. Occupational aspirations is individual's expressed career related goals or choices. The present study was carried out in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in the tahsils of Latur, Chakur, and Renapur in 2019–20, with the objective to study “Occupational Aspirations of Rural Youth.” Ex-post-facto research design has been used in this study. Four randomly chosen villages per tahsil. A random selection of 10 respondents was made from each village, resulting in a sample size of 120 respondents.
The majority of respondents appeared to have medium-level occupational aspirations. Additionally, the majority of respondents' had medium level of Agriculture Aspirations, Professional Occupation, Sales and Business Occupation, Skilled Occupation, Unskilled Occupation and Any Other Occupational Aspirations (Defence service/ Sportsman/ Builder).