STUDY ON CREATIVITY AMONG THE HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Creativity has been recognized as one of the most important human skills to face the complexity
brought by the digital era we are going through creativity would allow students to start higher education
better equipped to pursue novel ideas, as well as to be more receptive to challenges. On a personal
level, improved creative capacity is likely to generate gains in satisfaction, mentally, emotionally and
physical wellbeing, happiness and self-identity, as well as enhanced potential for professional
development. Thus the present study highlights the importance for fostering creativity among the
higher education students. Normative Survey method was adopted in the present study. Higher
education students of Chennai District were used as a sample for the study. Data is collected from 100
college students of which 50 male and 50 female students from different type of colleges are involved
in this present study. Results were female foster better creativity than their counterparts. The higher
education students from the Government College are more creative than the Private college students.
Moreover, it is also inferred that the students from different type of college (Arts & Science,
Engineering and Education College) are similar in the creativity.