, vol. 6, issue 3, 2017.
Academic advising is one of the crucial components for enhancing students' satisfaction and success, many colleges and universities have extended academic support services and programmatic interventions which in turn contribute to affect students’ academic success. Aim:Study aimed to investigate the relationship between student satisfaction of academic advising, and students' success. Design: A Descriptive correlation research design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was carried out at faculty of nursing affiliated to private university at Cairo. Sample:A convenience sample of 230 adult nursing students was included in the present study. Tool:Two tools were used. (1) Self-Administered Questionnaire Tool to assess data related to students personal characteristics, in addition to assess type of academic advising relationship, frequency of academic advising sessions, timing of sessions and students’ GPA. (2) Students’ Academic Advising Inventoryto measure students' satisfaction with academic advising process. Results:there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between students' satisfaction and their highly satisfyingactivities during academic advising session; while, highly statistical significant negative correlation was found between students’ satisfaction and theirstudy year, GPA and frequency of academic advising session. Conclusion: students' satisfaction of academic advising was negatively related to andstudents' success. Recommendation: Fostering the role of academic advising in institutions to better student satisfaction and success.
Keywords: Students' Satisfactions, AcademicAdvising, Student Success
