factors affecting academic failure in medical students in iran

Background: students are considered part of the capital of each country. several factors canaffect their educational status and, as a result, contribute to their academic failure. the currentstudy seeks to investigate the relationship between students’ academic failure and the affectingfactors with the iranian educational ranking of universities.methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study. the required sample size was calculatedusing cochran’s formula. a researcher-made questionnaire with 5 parts was used to collect data.kruskal wallis and spearman’s analysis of variance was used for analysis. the significance levelwas considered as 0.05.results: a total of 1215 people participated; 13.7% of students had had an academic failure and2.0% of them were on academic probation. there was a correlation between university radrank and academic failure (r = -0.098 and p = 0.0001) as well as student satisfaction (r = 0.264 –p = 0.0001). there was a significant difference between an academic drop and academic gradein three ranks of university (pv= 0.0001), and, interestingly, having moved from rank 1 to 3,having academic grade increases, and having academic failure decreases.conclusion: according to the findings of this study, the higher ranked the college campus is onthe rad scale, the higher the academic failure rate. for annual assessment of universities, it isproposed that assessment of academic failure and grades be used as a benchmark.