Causes of Students Drop out in Private Colleges as Seen by Instructors " Dijlah University College as an Example "

Abstract

No one said that going to college would be easy, and many students find out the hard way. There are many contributing factors that can lead to lack of success. Some are unavoidable, some are , well , just plain irresponsibility .As college tuition increases , many students find themselves with two choices :finish school or pay the bill .
 However ,the cost of college is not the only factor in students dropping out Students of private colleges in Iraq drop out for many reasons . The decision usually has a lot to do with money, time and security situation. Even the students who depend on their parents or able to take out loans are eventually have to be worry about taking a great part of family's financial income or about paying loans back .
 Dropping out is not only great loss for the students and their family, but it is also great loss of the young educated powers which are necessary to rebuild and progress the country. A sample of (30) instructors included in the study and a questionnaire was used as the main instrument of the study. The main findings of the study were the following: The researcher here shortly discussed the items obtained 70 percentage score and more which indicated the most important factors of students dropping out. In the field of " Financial Problems " Item 6 " Lack of Financial Support " obtained 83 points which represented the highest score among the items in the study followed by item 5 "High installation Tuition" obtained 80 score which indicated that financial problems were the most important factor of students dropping out . In the field of "Psychological Stresses "item 18 "Abnormal Situation of the Country" obtained 80 score which indicated that psychological stresses were the second important factor of students dropping out of the private colleges in Iraq . In the field of "Changing Place "item 17 "Displaced for Different Causes " obtained 80 score which indicated the third important cause of students dropping out . In the field of "Lack of Motivation" item 39 "Having no Sense of Purpose" Obtained 78 score which indicated another important cause of the problem. In the field of "Immigration "item 37" Immigration Inside or Outside the Country" obtained 73 score which also indicated another important factor of the problem . In the field of "Academically Unprepared " item 21 "Weak Students with Low Marks " obtained 70 score which also indicated another factor of students dropping out of private college in Iraq .