The Role of Student Engagement in the Success of Study of Scholarship Awardee Students of Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the effect of student characteristics, internal factors and external factors on student engagement and the success of scholarship awardee’s study in Bogor Agricultural University. The theory used in this study is that the success study of the scholarship awardee is affected by the student characteristics, internal and external factors and that the student engagement has a role in mediating between the influencing factors and the success of the study. This study was conducted using a survey design of 345 scholarship awardee as respondents using the instrument to measure the internal and external factors as well as student engagement. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was constructed to analyze the effect between variables. Exogenous latent variables in this study include student characteristics, internal factors and external factors, whereas endogenous variables include student engagement and success of study. Student engagement is also the intervening variables that mediate between the success factors and the student success studies. The results of the study proved that the student characteristics and the internal factors affected the student engagement and the success of study. In this study, it was found that external factors affected on student engagement and did not affect on the success of the study. The result also show that the student engagement affected significantly on the success of study of the Bogor Agricultural University’s scholarship awardee. The results of this study have various implications for the practice of higher education implementation, especially to improve the student engagement and the success of student’s study.