Perceptions Of Academic Advisor Attributes And Assessing The Students’ Satisfaction With Academic Advising Experience In A Health Science College Of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Academic advising is to ensures optimum student retention, optimum academic performance and personal growth of the students in the college and university life. The purpose of this study was exploring the Perceptions of academic advisor attributes and to assess the students’ satisfaction with academic advising experience in Healthcare College of Saudi Arabia". A cross sectional study was conducted among all years of students who studied in different majors. According to the investigation based on major, 74.7% of nursing students and 88.0% of foundation year students respectively believed that the advising process had an impact on their Grade point average (GPA). A further descriptive analysis showed that the students meet their advisor for many purposes, the commonest being for course registration and scheduling. The association between academic advising and positive student development was statistically significant at P <0.05. The grade point average of a student and academic advising were both reported to be related by more than half of the students. The results reveal that academic advising Unit at Mohammed Al-Mana College for Medical Sciences (MACHS) played an important role in various aspects such as academic development and personal development of the students.