Abstract:
The research aimed to 1) investigate the survival function, median survival time and hazard rate of Undergraduate Students, Burapha University (BUU). 2) to compare the survival function of BUU students with different characteristics, and 3) to study hazard model of BUU students with different characteristics. The sample consisted of 1,000 undergraduate students in academic year 2014, selected by stratified random sampling. The data used for this study were from Registrars Office, BUU. The variables in this study included gender, age, parents occupations, parents salary, grade point average of high school (GPA), and fields of study. The results of the study revealed that:
1. From life table, the highest risk period of 0.1078 and survival time of 85.92% occurred in the second semester, 2014. The median survival time could not be shown because of 50% of students drop out did not occur in the study time.
2. The Kaplan Meier analysis indicated that the predictors which affected the survival time, with a significantly difference at the level of .05, were gender, age, GPA, and fields of study.
3. Form Coxs regression, it revealed that the predictors which affected hazard model were gender, and GPA.