Zeinab A. Abd El-Naby, Karima A. Elsayed, Nora A. Abdullah
Abstract:There are many factors that affect academic achievement of nursing students. The purpose of the study was to identify contributing factors to advance academic achievement at Faculty of Nursing Benha University. Methods: The study was conducted at the faculty of nursing at Benha University. The sample consisted of 366 fourth year nursing students who enrolled at academic year 2016/ 2017. Two instruments were used for data gathering. First instrument was used namely (Contributing factors to advance academic achievement questionnaire sheet). It was divided into four parts: personal characteristic of the nursing student and factors of students' success, faculty staff support questionnaire, student self efficacy scale. Second instrument was used namely student achievement. Result: The majority of students (95.9%) had high perception level regarding factors of success, (98.4%) perceived faculty staff support and (92.1%)self efficacy. conclusion, this study concluded that there was a statistical significant positive correlation between  factors of success, faculty support, self-efficacy on student achievement.Recommendations: report forcontinuous improvement in the quality of education to assess the needs of nursing students, faculty members should participate nursing students in this differential educational teaching, and faculty can also foster students' habits by running courses in learning strategy.