Abstract:
The study aimed to find out the factors affecting the first level students of the Faculty
of Commerce and Economics, University of Sana’a to choose their scientific areas of
specializations, through a questionnaire distributed to them. This questionnaire was
randomly administered to 426 male and female students. The study focused on academic
factors related to the nature of the curriculum of study, skills of faculty members who teach
the students, educational attainment in the first level, factors related to the profession, the
future trends in the labor market, and the role of the family.
The study found a number of findings. The major ones are that most of the respondents
will specialize in accounting. The order of the factors that have an impact on the students’
selection of scientific specialization is the future career and job security in the future, then
the influence of their course professors and the content of the curriculum, followed by the
role of the family and friends as well as their academic achievements in the first level. The
study recommended the colleges and the scientific departments to pay attention to the
students’ interests. Moreover, the concerned governmental authorities should coordinate
between them along with the businessmen in the country to put an educational policy,
plans, programs and curricula as to meet students’ attitudes to the disciplines that have
jobs and demands by the labor market.