“…The literature on social capital is wide as social capital is a sociological construct that can be applied in various contexts such as business [21,22], healthcare [23,24] environmental conservation [1], corporate social responsibility [25], poverty-alleviation [26,27,28], nation-building [29], crowdfunding [30] and others. In the context of students, social capital provides current benefits as it supports academic success as students leverage upon it for peer learning and guidance [31,7,8], and also future benefits as it plays an important role in career and business success [10,11,18].…”