Factors affecting academic performance of female university students

The study is focused to point out the factors affecting academic performance of female university students taking the case of Akusm University. For this purpose, the study utilized the econometric and descriptive tools to obtain the reliable estimates of the contribution of school, student and family attributes to academic success. The empirical evidence indicates that tension, distance travelled to attend college and harassment have statistically significant adverse impacts on student performance. On the contrary, the academic level of parents and the amount of fund students receive monthly have positive statistically significant effects while the effect of college admission results and family size were found to be statistically insignificant. Besides, the students indicated that the major constraints on the their academic success have been lack of adequate financial support, absence of female counselors and special tutorial programs, limited contact with University management and pervasive tension and student harassment. On the basis of these empirical findings, it may be proposed that the University should help students fill their financial gap, employ female counselors, introduce special tutorial programs, increase contact with students and reduce situations that induce tension and harassment.