ANALISIS FAKTOR YANG MEMENGARUHI MAHASISWA DALAM MEMILIH PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BAHASA ARAB STAIN PEKALONGAN

Abstract

The awareness of the importance of a good qualified
education is experienced by many people of various strata. This
is evidenced by the increasing numbers of students who move
on to higher education. As one of the educational institutions,
STAIN Pekalongan is committed to continuously improving the
quality of education and to accommodate the wishes of the
stakeholders. One form of this commitment is to establish new
courses namely Intensive Arabic Program. This research was
completed to know how big the public interest was against the
opening of this course and what the dominant factors that influence students in choosing the Arabic Studies Program of
STAIN Pekalongan were. 16 variables were proposed to find
out the reasons why the students chose PAI of STAIN Pekalongan. From the population of 104 students of Arabic
Education, the researcher selected a sample of 70 students
(respondents). The selection was done randomly comprising 51
students and 19 students of the second semester of the fourth
semester. The gender proportion of respondents consisted of
49% male students and 51% female students. Based on the
value of KMO MSA and Bartlet's test, it showed that of the 16
variables submitted, there were only 13 significant variables. Of
those 13 variables, they were reduced into 5 main factors – the
curriculum, the promotion, the quality of lecturer, the college
status, and the location.