Alireza Ghasemizad - Department of Educational Science, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran

Aim: This paper aimed at studying the learning strategies and effort/persistence of the traditional and nontraditional students. Methods: Through cluster sampling, 245 students from four major and large Islamic Azad University branches in Iran were randomly selected, and questionnaires were distributed among them. The research method was correlation and casual‑comparative. Cronbach’s alpha method was used to calculate the reliability. The Item analysis and expert consensus were applied to calculate the validity of instruments. Results: The results indicated that there was no significantdifference between the learning strategies of these two groups of students. Furthermore, there was no significant difference between the academic success of these two groups

Academic success, effort ، persistence, higher education, learning strategies, nontraditional students