Introduction: University students' motivators and preferences for yoga as their course of study can influence their future as yoga instructors and therapists.
Materials And Methods: Six hundred and thirty-six students of both genders (251:385, male: female) from four North Indian universities offering graduate and postgraduate courses in yoga were the respondents to a convenience sampling survey about their preferences and motivators.
Results: The three most common reasons why students chose to study yoga were (i) "I can help many people through knowledge of yoga" (32.