This paper focuses on investigating students’ reasons for their reluctance to attend facul-ty members’ office hours. Study participants included 500 male and female students from the Col-leges of Engineering (n = 248) and Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) (n = 252) at Sultan Qaboos Uni-versity (SQU). The study followed a descriptive-analytical approach, and a questionnaire was uti-lized to collect people’s views. The results of the study indicate that the rates of SQU students’ attendance to office hours were low, and some students (11.2%) do not attend at all as they consid-er these office hours a waste of time. The main reasons behind the students’ lack of interest in office hours were busy student timetables, conflicts between faculty office hours and students’ timetables, and easier and faster ways of getting information than visiting faculty members. Additional rea-sons were related to faculty members’ personalities and their discouraging attitudes toward attend-ing office hours. The researchers recommend that SQU adopt a new strategy for encouraging facul-ty members to hold office hours, familiarizing students with the importance of office hours and assigning part of a course’s grades to meeting with faculty members’ office hours.

This paper focuses on investigating students’ reasons for their reluctance to attend facul-ty members’ office hours. Study participants included 500 male and female students from the Col-leges of Engineering (n = 248) and Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) (n = 252) at Sultan Qaboos Uni-versity (SQU). ...