Analysis of Educational Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Agricultural Graduates: The Case of Yasouj University

One of the most important missions of higher education, is to train and to prepare efficient, competent and skillful workforce to meet real needs of the society in different fields of occupations. Among different factors, educational factors have a major impact either on educational achievement or on job satisfaction of the graduates. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze educational factors affecting job satisfaction of agricultural graduates of Yasouj University. Survey research method with a pre-structured questionnaire was used in this study. The validity of questionnaire was verified using face validity procedure and its reliability was calculated between 0.611 to 0.946 using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. A sample of 146 agricultural graduates was selected and also studied using Patten’s Random Sampling Table and Systematic Random Sampling procedure. Results showed that 47.9 percent of respondents were employed. 67.1 of them were satisfied with their jobs. The results of correlation analysis also showed that variables such as coping knowledge, practical knowledge, theoretical knowledge, equipment, teaching methods and relevance of the job to educated major have a statistically significant relationship with job satisfaction. Moreover, the results of Logistic regression revealed that variables such as educational mean, teaching methods, relevance, equipment and coping knowledge are the most important variables in predicting job satisfaction.