The result of the present survey appeared to indicate a higher dropout rate among married students, not only for reasons of economics, but because of their dissatisfaction with Graduate Assistants teaching the courses, differences in attitude and orientation to the program, and scheduling of courses. The data appeared useful in generating ideas for inservice sessions for faculty and for administrative inservice sessions.

Dropout, stopout and low graduation rate of adult students that enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in Fall, 1977, as freshmen was the concern of University administrators. This study was undertaken to identify the factors germane to the 29 nonpersisters. The categories investigated were demographics, economic status, institutional factors, and reasons for change. The interview technique was used to obtain the data.