Relationship between total personal quality, service quality and student satisfaction on higher education system

Abstract

Efforts to increase student satisfaction as higher education customers need to be made, since student satisfaction is related to the university quality. This research aimed to study the model of student satisfaction as university customers by using survey method. The sample was determined to be 208 people who were obtained by proportional random sampling. The instrument used was a questionnaire with questions of total student quality, quality of lecturer service, and student satisfaction as higher education customers, with the reliability coefficients of 0.82, 0.84, and 0.86, respectively. Moreover, SEM analysis techniques using AMOS tools were conducted. Based on the results of the confirmatory factor analysis, Several points have been obtained, such as: (1) personal leadership is the strongest indicator (69.38%) to form the total quality student variable, (2) responsiveness is the strongest indicator (81.90%) to form the quality of lecturer service variable, and (3) satisfaction is the strongest indicator (78.49%) to form the student satisfaction as university customers variable. Furthermore, the analysis result found that the total personal quality of students had no significant effect on the testing of student satisfaction variables as university customers, However, the service quality variable had a positive effect on the student satisfaction. The results of this study will strengthen the student satisfaction model in higher education management and contribute to the education management science.