Al-Nassar Nassar S, Alhajjaj Ahmed A, Bleady Abbas
Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Economics, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Management Information Systems and Production Management, College of Business and Economics, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2022 Jun 3;8(6):e09636. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09636. eCollection 2022 Jun.
The accumulated evidence from developed countries indicates that a large proportion of undergraduates exceed the normal time to obtain their degrees before completing their baccalaureate studies, which has attracted the attention of academics and policy-makers. However, the evidence on degree completion in developing countries is scant to nonexistent. The present study aims to fill this gap by developing a predictive model to explore the impact of the student's preadmission criteria and academic performance indicators on the study length for graduates of the bachelor of business administration (BBA) degree in finance and accounting in a Saudi public university. We used deidentified demographic and academic data from the 2018/2019 cohort of students at the College of Business and Economics (CBE), Qassim University. The dataset is assembled from official administrative student records. Using multinomial logistic regression (MLR), we find that students with a higher college entry age, higher secondary school score percentage, higher General Achievement Test (GAT) score, and higher academic performance in "gatekeeper" quantitative courses, including mathematics, statistics and economics, are more likely to graduate within the normal time to degree. The implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed.
发达国家积累的证据表明，很大一部分本科生在完成学士学位课程之前超过了正常的毕业时间，这引起了学者和政策制定者的关注。然而，关于发展中国家学位完成情况的证据却很少甚至不存在。本研究旨在通过开发一个预测模型来填补这一空白，以探讨学生的入学前标准和学业成绩指标对沙特一所公立大学金融与会计专业工商管理学士学位（BBA）毕业生学习时长的影响。我们使用了卡西姆大学商业与经济学院（CBE）2018/2019届学生的匿名人口统计学和学业数据。该数据集是从官方学生管理记录中收集的。通过多项逻辑回归（MLR），我们发现，大学入学年龄较大、高中成绩百分比更高、通用成就测试（GAT）分数更高以及在包括数学、统计学和经济学在内的“把关”定量课程中表现更好的学生，更有可能在正常时间内毕业。文中还讨论了研究结果的意义和未来的研究方向。
