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A survey was conducted by North Shore Community College during 1979 to determine the.reasons why students in the Division of Continuing Education drop cut of college. During the survey, a randomly selected sample of the 1,706 continuing education students who had been enrolled during Fall 1978 but who did not reenroll in Spring 1979 were asked to check off their principal reason for withdrawal from among eight possible categories list6d on a postcard questionnaire. Findings, based on 494 responses, indicated that 33 % of the students had completed their program of study; 7% withdrew because of an inconvenient schedule; 6 % were unable to finance further education: 1 % felt that the instruction was inadequate; 15C found the work more difficult than anticipated; 1% were disappointed in the program of study: and none of the respondents indicated that their main reason for withdrawal was