Abstract
Ahmed Taher, The American University in Cairo, Egypt This study was developed to predict the intention of undergraduate Arab students' withdrawal from or completion of distance education courses. The model was examined on a pilot sample of 127 students and then re-examined on 587 students. Mixed paradigms were selected, the quantitative approach was, the dominant technique, using two factor analysis followed by discriminant analysis. This study seems to suggest that, family encouragement and support, belief in distance learning and independent learning style are the three factors that significantly discriminate between the students who intend to leave and those who intend to remain at the Arab Open University in Saudi Arabia.