Postgraduate Students' Perception on their Studies and Supervisors
Postgraduate candidates need to graduate on time (GOT) Failure to GOT among postgraduates is a loss to the nation. GOT should be analyzed from the postgraduate candidates' perspectives. Therefore, this paper explores postgraduate students' perspectives about their postgraduate studies. An adapted questionnaire survey was utilized to delve into the postgraduates' perspective. This quantitative study involved 66 postgraduate candidates from public institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Initial findings revealed that the candidates rated their supervisor at a higher rating compared to the skills they possessed. Besides, the correlation between critical reading skills and conceptual with research skills is moderately high. Keywords: postgraduate study, perceptions, skills, supervisory factor, completion of the thesis. eISSN: 2398 4287(c) 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE Bs by e International Publishing House, Ltd. UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC ND license (http:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by nc nd/4.0/ Peer review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment Behaviour Researchers) ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE Bs (Centre for Environment Behaviour Studies) Faculty of Architecture, Planning Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https:/doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI3.2557