The effect of university brand on student loyalty with the mediator role of trust and satisfaction

Today, universities and higher education institutions are becoming globalized, students are very interested in choosing their university to see the international rankings of universities or to choose the best university of their choice through comparisons in this research. We have tried to investigate the influencing factors in student loyalty. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of university brand image on student loyalty with the mediating role of trust and satisfaction, in which sub-objectives related to it have also been investigated. In the field of consumer behavior, this research covers the community of final year students of all fields and all academic levels of non-profit universities (Khayyam, Sajjad and Imam Reza (AS)). The geographical scope of this research is three non-profit universities of Imam Reza, Khayyam and Sajjad located in Razavi Khorasan province. The current research is included in the category of descriptive research from the descriptive-correlation branch. Also, using the results obtained from it can be very useful, so this research is in the category of applied research in terms of its purpose. In this research, the Lavshe method was used to check the content validity of the questionnaire; Lavshe invented a widely used method to measure content validity. In this research, descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to investigate the research questions in the society. After examining each of the influential factors, all the research hypotheses have been verified and the results have been detailed at the end of the research.