LUQMAN EJAZ
BBA 2020 15
Submitted to: Mam Iqra Abdullah
Retention rate of students at universities
Introduction: Background: University is an idea having come down to us from Old Greece. The idea of "universitas"
comprised through being motivated by the climate where Plato and Aristotle made philosophical
conversations with them understudies without feeling any political and strict tensions is named as
university. Colleges as the most noteworthy instructive and explore foundations have been serving
humankind at all-inclusive scale as focuses were each sort of material and otherworldly issues are
examined and researched at the most significant level and got discoveries are moved again through
educating and distributions. The principal capabilities which colleges should do have been
recorded as follows: 1. Doing logical examination studies, 2. Creating answers for the issues of
mankind and a nation, 3. Preparing the human power which a nation needs, 4. Showing data,
abilities, feelings and instincts which they acquire to others, making distributions, 5. Setting
models in each space. People having finished specific phases of studies effectively proceed with
advanced education foundations with the point of profiting from these missions of colleges. In any
case, the timeframe spent in advanced education is "youth", with its most straightforward
definition, a certain and restricted age fragment setting up an individual inwardly, mentally and
typically for social development.
The study we are working at is about the low retention rate of Namal University Mianwali.
Namal University Mianwali is an educational hub for the students from all over the Pakistan.
Namal University is founded by Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Imran Khan, and he dream
to make it a Knowledge City. The objective of Namal is to provide world best quality educational
facilities to the students who belong to medium and lower-class families and this will help in the
uplifting of the society. Namal Provides scholarships and more than 95% of the students are on
scholarships in Namal. Besides this, Namal is having an issue with the retention of the students.
Research Problem: When BBA batch of 2024 came to Namal the strength of the class was 47 and by the end of the
2nd year more than 50% of the students left Namal. The retention rate of students at Namal is
close to or below 50%. This is a big reason behind the smaller number of graduates produced by
the university. This is also giving birth to negative thoughts about the university.
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Problem Statement: Why Namal is not able to retain the students, and large number of students leave the university
so early?
Purpose: The purpose of this problem is to know the reason behind the low retention rate and to overcome
those issues.
Objectives: 1. Understanding the mentality of the students who leave Namal.
2. Namal would be able to retain more students
3. Namal would be able to produce more graduates
4. Solving this problem will prosper positive thoughts about Namal, and will cause an
increase in the demand of Namal graduates
Hypothesis: 1. Students leave Namal because they choose it as a 2nd option, if they will not get
admission at their desired institution, they will carry on with Namal.
2. The location of Namal is in backward area, so it is hard for urban students to stay here.
3. Students leave Namal because of the food issues.
4. If students didn’t find their interest in the degree offered by Namal they will leave.
Questions: In this research we will try to find the answer for the following questions
1. Did students join Namal as a 2nd option?
2. Are students facing any health issues?
3. Are students satisfied with the location of the Namal hostel and University?
4. Are students facing food issues in Namal?
5. Are students interested in the degree they are studying in Namal or Did students got
admission in their desired subject?
Population: 2
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This research is about the students that leave Namal, so the population of this research will be the
friend and colleagues of the students that left Namal University and also the students of the year
2026 who will leave Namal. Colleague and fiends know why their friend or classmate left
Namal. The data will be collected with the help of questioner.
Literature Review
1. Problems related to Food: Feeding is most important for the humans. Feeding is taking and using those ingredients which
provide necessary nutrients to live a healthy life. Deficiently taking any of these wholesome
components or not taking any influences development and improvement adversely. In each phase
of life, being solid actually and intellectually and keeping up with wellbeing are conceivable
through satisfactory and adjusted nourishment (O., 2012).
As the students in the universities are the youth and malnutrition of any thing makes them
weak against any chronic disease and it is said that students with malnutrition are more likely to
be affected by the disease then the student with the proper diet plan. So, it is important for the
student to develop a proper diet plan to stay healthy physically, and mentally (D., 2018).
2. Problems of habituation: Change I encompassing and keep up with these connections. In the beginning of the college time
frame when understudies leave their homes and resides which they have been driving and begin
an alternate life, understudies go through a cycle what we call "adjustment". During this
interaction, to have the option to help them, it is significant and important to furnish them with
adjustment and direction (change preparing) administrations included among the mental and
direction administrations. Adjustment and direction administrations will help understudies
recently beginning college to conform to this new climate and conditions in their lives, and to
defeat challenges which they could confront. These administrations will add to their getting data
about conceivable outcomes and administrations given by colleges and furthermore about
colleges standards and rules.
simultaneously, these are administrations included among the mental directing and
direction furnished determined to assist understudies with getting snippets of data essential for
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settling on sane and right choices during college life, and to get to be aware of college grounds,
divisions, residences, close encompassing and urban communities where they are. It is absurd to
expect to express that college understudies, who experience a wide range of issues, for example,
the issue of acclimation to climate, sadness, worry for the future, issues connected with
schooling, issues lived in two-sided relations, and issues connected with nourishment, can get
proficient help which they need to take care of these issues. It is mental advising and direction
focuses and advocates that assume a functioning part in the organization of mental guiding and
direction administrations which are to help college understudies to tackle these issues.
3. Problems of quality education: Schooling quality is preparing of today’s youth by setting up a few important mental and
humanistic circumstances and taking into account the necessities and states representing things to
come. While referencing about the issue of value schooling, referencing about such matters as
qualified instructors, qualified understudies, states of being of universities is conceivable.
Universities are divided into 2 when talking about the function they perform. (1) those who
perform research and (2) those who are the center of mass education. With the increase in the
number of educators, a large number of universities are moving towards mass education and
research universities are decreasing in number. Because of the increasing population the quality
of the education is affected badly and it has fallen short to the standards required to research.
Different researches have been done it was found that at the end of the studies teachers think that
their students are not competent enough to perform research. (O, 2012)
4. Interest in the subject or degree offered: This is also interesting to know that the interest of students changes with the time and when
students do not get admission in the degree offered by the university, they leave the university
and try to carry in with the subject they have interest in. Like if a student is having interest in
medical sciences and he/she enrolled in a university where medical sciences degree is not
offered. The person will carry on but whenever, he/she will get a chance to carry on his/her
future with medical sciences the student will quit the current degree and will try to go on with the
medical sciences. This is same with most of the students. If university is not able to offer the
right degree or subjects then the students will leave the university who are not able to find their
interest in the degree offered by the university. (O, 2012)
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5. Health Issues: Health issues is one of the most prominent issues that causes students to leave universities. If we
talk about the health it is categorized in 2 types, either physical and mental. Physical health refers
to the strength of the body and how tough someone is while mental health is about thinking and
decision making. Physical health and mental health are related to each other and because if any
of them gets disturbed the other is also affected. If a student is physically not fit and he remains
ill most of the time, then this is going to affect his decision-making ability because of the illness
he/she will not be able to complete the tasks on time and in universities it is important to keep
completing the tasks with time, otherwise it will make a burden and students will not be able to
carry on with the studies. In the same if a student is mentally disturbed because of any issues
then it is going to affect his physical health, and it will be hard for the student to carry on his
studies, and at the end the student quit. (H., 2004)
Here below I am sharing results of some previous researches conducted on university students.
These researches are conducted in order to know the reasons why students leave universities.
The first data is from (E., 2009) and this talks about the transferring from one program to the
other and also transferring from one university to the other.
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A same data is also presented in (H., 2004)
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Works Cited
D., P.-S. A. (2018). Student hunger on campus: Food insecurity among college students and implications
for academic institutions. American Journal of Health Promotion.
E., H. &. (2009). Learning environment: Relevant or not to students' decision to leave university?. Quality
in higher education.
H., C. M. (2004). Leaving university early: Exploring the differences between continuing and non‐
continuing students. Studies in Higher education.
O, D. &. (2012). The problems faced by university students and proposals for solution. Procedia-Social
and Behavioral Sciences.
O., D. &. (2012). The problems faced by university students and proposals for solution. Procedia-Social
and Behavioral Sciences.
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