Invoking particular action on dropdown list selection in MVC

Question

I have a dropdown list in an MVC view. On selection change of dropdown list I want to call specific action method in the controller.

What I have done on view is this :

Answer 1

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.StudentId, new SelectList(ViewBag.List, "Value", "Text"), new { @class = "form-control", @style = "width:65px", onchange = "document.location.href = '/Student/find?Id=' + this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;" })