The Effects of Students’ Socio-Physical Backgrounds onto Satisfaction with Student Housing Facilities

Campus house is commonly conceived and carried out as a merely physical shelter to snugly accommodate students in shared campus environment. In order to recruit and retain students in the universities, there is a need to enhance students’ satisfaction towards the provided housing facilities. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the significant difference in satisfaction means reported by the students from various socio-physical backgrounds. Particularly, it examines the statistically significant differences from the aspects of gender, mix-ethnicity, economic status, and previous home experience. Data were obtained from the face-to-face survey, administered to 495 participants who stayed on-campus at Malaysian Research Universities. These were analyzed using descriptive, T-test, and One-way ANOVA. Generally, the results show that significant differences can be seen in a different way from every aspect and obviously reveals that students were adapted to live in shared campus environment. Consequently, it is hoped that the findings of this study should therefore be valuable and considered by the universities management in an attempt to improve the quality of their future campus house.