Evaluation of Graduate Programs in Qassim University from the Perspective of their Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate graduate programs at Qassim University from the perspective of their students. This study used a questionnaire as a tool for data collection which is divided into several factors to explore students' perspective .The population of this study consisted of 193 graduate students at the graduate programs at Qassim University. In addition this study used the descriptive and analytical approach. The main findings revealed that the estimation of students was high in terms of registration and acceptance, regulations policy, the goals of graduate programs, courses and curricula, teaching and learning strategies, methods of evaluation and academic supervision. On the other hand, facilities and services of research were of low scores. Also, there were statistically significant differences in the responses between male and female postgraduate students for facilities and services of research on the part of male students. For the variable of the postgraduate stage, there were also statistically significant differences on the part of the PhD degree. The remaining variable showed no significance statistically.