Research and Markets: The Survey of American College Students: Student Satisfaction with Their College is Based on a Representative Sample of More Than 400 Full Time College Students

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/217aa1/the_survey_of_amer) has
announced the addition of the "The Survey of American College Students: Student
Satisfaction with their College" report to their offering.

This report presents approximately 250 tables of data exploring how full time
college students in the United States evaluate their college, and how likely
they are to remain and graduate. Students rank their professors in and out of
their major, as well as many other facet of their educational life, including
its total cost, the quality of the library, college sports facilities, housing,
food service, the availability of internships and job possibilities, the
sociability of their peers, and other facets of college life. The report also
presents data on the percentage of students who would attend their current
institution if they had to make the choice over again, and the percentage who
would recommend their college to a friend.

The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full
time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria
including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of
students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges,
among other variables.

For many of the questions in this report we have asked respondents to rate their
colleges on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 signifying great dissatisfaction and 10
signifying great satisfaction. The higher the score the more satisfied is the
student with that particular feature of the college. Just a few of the reports
many results were:

* Overall, most students were relatively highly satisfied with the quality of
professors and other instructors in their selected majors or areas of
concentration. The mean score was 8.26 with a range of 2 to 10. Students over
age 25 seemed more satisfied than their younger counterparts.
* Students at colleges whose highest degree awarded was the BA scored the
highest rating for professors and other instructors in a student's major - 8.78
- significantly higher than the norm or 8.26, while community college students
rated their instructors the lowest on the 10 point scale - 7.96.
* Students in the fine or performing arts were the least happy with their
professors and other instructors' level of accessibility, rating them at 7.54.
Professors in the hard sciences came in at the highest level, 8.26.
* In general, students were quite dissatisfied with the overall cost of their
education. In general students over age 25 were happier than were younger
students.
* Students raised in suburbs seemed particularly dissatisfied and they gave a
satisfaction rating of only 5.0. Satisfaction seemed to drop as students
progressed through their college careers past the sophomore year, perhaps as the
result of a rising debt load, well chronicled in sources other than this one.
* Community college students were the happiest with their college cost
structure, reporting a 7.18 rating.
* Students also seemed somewhat dissatisfied with the opportunities provided on
campus for paid work. Their satisfaction rating was only 6.64.
* Student views of the sociability of their peers was inversely related to
school enrollment size. The smaller the college the higher students rated the
sociability of their peers.
* More than 64% of the students in the sample say that they are sure that they
will graduate from their current college.
* Among the various academic majors, students in English, communications and
related language oriented majors were the most likely to stick with their
current college - close to 91% of them would do so given a new choice.

The Survey of American College Students

The Survey of American College Students is a representative probability sample
of more than 400 American college students. The series of reports from the
Survey of American College Students includes traditional market research reports
for industry as well as college student satisfaction and use studies designed to
give librarians and college administrators information on how students are using
college resources nation-wide. Data is presented for all college students and
broken out by sixteen criteria including college size, college type, mean
college SAT acceptance score, gender, grade levels, academic grades, region of
the country, type of locale of origin, academic major or focus, and other
variables. The Survey of American College Students, Higher Education Services
Reports, focuses on how college students use and how satisfied they are with
campus services such as tutoring services, college police and security, athletic
facilities, financial aid and many other college services.

Key Topics Covered:

* Chapter 1: Quality of Professors in a Student's Major
* Chapter 2: Quality of Professors in General
* Chapter 3: Accessibility and Dedication of Professors
* Chapter 4: The Cost of Education
* Chapter 5: Opportunities for Paid Work
* Chapter 6: The Quality of Internships Offered Through the College
* Chapter 7: The Quality of the Food on Campus
* Chapter 8: The Quality of the Sports Facilities
* Chapter 9: The Quality of the Library
* Chapter 10: The Efficiency of Course Registration
* Chapter 11: The Quality of Campus Housing
* Chapter 12: The Sociability of Fellow Students
* Chapter 13: Students that Have Attended Other Colleges
* Chapter 14: Intentions to Switch Schools
* Chapter 15: Shoulda Coulda Woulda
* List of Tables

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