“…For example, studies show that positive student qualities (Ho et al, 2010), their commitment to research and writing research articles (Humphrey, Marshall, & Leonardo, 2012), involvement in academic conferences (Bolli, Agasisti, & Johnes, 2015), having good scientific discipline (Groenvynck, Vandevelde, & Van Rossem, 2013), and having good interpersonal working relationships with advisors (Ives & Rowley, 2005) can determine success in their academic program as well as in their professional career. Also, gender and language proficiency levels are sometimes ÜNİVERSİTEPARK Bülten | Bulletin • Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2017 mentioned as reasons (Lebcir, Wells, & Bond, 2008;Rodwell & Neumann, 2008). They contend that "students with weak educational strategies and without persistence to achieve their aims in life" (Araque, Roldánb, & Salgueroa, 2009, p. 563) were likely to achieve low success rates.…”