STUDENT SATISFACTION WITH FACILITIES AT THE TAMALE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, GHANA

Abstract

Students’ satisfaction with facilities on their campus are very integral to their general academic wellbeing. For this reason, this study pursued the level of satisfaction of student of the Tamale Campus of the University for Development Student (UDS, Tamale). Adopting the descriptive survey as a design, and quantitative research approach, the results are presented in tabular percentage forms. A sample size of 300 were envisaged, however, after administering the questionnaires, only 261 returned their responses. The SPSS version 23 was used for the data preparation; entry, cleaning, and analyses of the data. The study revealed that, majority of the respondents (101) were satisfied with the location of the library and lecture halls. Again, while 129 (51%) of students were fairly satisfied with the general campus facility layout and planning, majority 186 (71.3%) were not satisfied with the number of seats in the lecture halls, culminating to general dissatisfaction with the comfort in the lecture halls. The study therefore recommends that, while University authorities need to take measures to provide large-space lecture halls to contain the large number of students by some departments, they should also not lose sight of the inadequate number of seats and comfort in the existing lecture halls. This would have the ability to attract more students into the University and generally improve their academic wellbeing