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Table 2 shows the ranking of factors that influenced the respondents to prefer RAKCODS over other dental colleges . Almost half of the students preferred the college because of the resemblance between the curriculum and the international standard followed by the fascinating building and availability of the facilities . Relatively low tuition fees were ranked as the third reason for choosing RAKCODS . About ( 21 %) of the respondents accepted RAKCODS , as they could not secure a seat in the other dental colleges ( rank 4 ).

Failure to be admitted to other programs , like Medicine Dentists do not need to deal with life threatening conditions

Worked in other dental related fields and now I want to be a dentist Dentistry is a prestigious profession

Motivation by marketing / dental professionals during high school There is not much “ on call ” work for dentists

Dental practice is a combination of hand skills and knowledge

Dental career provides enough time to be with family Dentists have a flexible work schedule A career in dentistry offers job security

Developed interest from my family dentist Dentistry provides short cut to health care specialty

Dentistry has high-level income of practice Have interest to treat people & improve their oral health Dental profession provides option to be self-employed

Dentistry pays better than other job options available to me

It ’ s easy for dentists to find work employment Because one of my parents is a dentist On recommendation of a friend / relative

Important Less important Not important

0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 80 % 90 % 100 %

Figure 2 . Motivating influences by level of importance across respondent students : individual item ( Y axis ) and proportion of students selecting each item ( X axis ) ( n = 110 )

4.1 . Statistical analysis The variables in ( Figure 2 ) were given score 2 for important , 1 for less important and 0 for not important in a range between ( 0-38 ). The score of dental career motivation factors was normally distributed with a mean of ( 20.14 ) and SD ( 6.433 ). This provides us with an idea about how likely our students were to consider being logic and confident in choosing the career as an important factor . From high possible expected score of 38 points , the students on average score 20 ± 1.2 as confidence Interval of their score factors . With respect to confidence as an important factor , we expected the highest possible score , namely 38 points , yet the average score the students got was 20 ± 1.2 . This would locate the level of this chosen variable as an important factor in choosing this profession somewhere between 50 % -56 %. Generally , this indicates that the factor they chose was not based on logical assumption .