Methodology
The study was carried out in Manipal which has a pool of 25 000 students from across the world. A carefully piloted self
administered questionnaire was used as a survey tool and it consisted of thirteen close ended questions with three on demographics and rest on consumption patterns. A total sample size of 150 students (30 students from each of five disciplines, namely Engineering, Medical, Pharmacy, Hotel Management. and Management) in the University premises were expected, but only 109 respondents filled in the questionnaire out of which 105 were taken into consideration for analysis. Four were discarded due to human error
The questionnaires were physically distributed using a Convenience Sampling method. Finally, data was gathered and analyzed using the statistical tool, IBM SPSS V 16.0 and the analysis included a descriptive analysis, cross tabs and T- test for equality of means.