Academic Transition

Students face academic transitional problems when they graduate from high school to university.The coursework of university is more complicated than high school and these problems add to the difficulty students' face coping with their new curriculum.This paper addresses the research conducted by a group of Petroleum Institute (PI) students regarding the issues which students encounter when transitioning to university.The purpose of our research was to bring these problems to the attention of university staff and faculty.In order to investigate these problems, we surveyed a bunch of PI freshman students and analyzed the results we retrieved.Results of the survey identified the issues students faced and our group was able to provide recommendations to overcome these issues.