Book excerpt: College and university administrators have been interested in investigating students' satisfaction with college life experience. However, research findings regarding the correlates and determinants of students' satisfaction with college have been mixed and limited. Further, students' affective states and several aspects of their personality characteristics have not been examined in relation to satisfaction with college. The primary purposes of the study were to (1) examine whether depression, self-esteem, attributional style, gender, grade point average and year in college are significantly related to satisfaction, (2) which of these variables or their combinations most significantly contribute to satisfaction and (3) what are the magnitudes of the relationships of depression, self-esteem, attributional style gender, year in college and grade point average to satisfaction. A total of 156 college students responded to four different measures: College Descriptive Index, Beck Depression Inventory Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Attributional Style Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation, multiple regression and discriminate analysis. The main findings indicated that depression correlated negatively with student satisfaction, whereas self-esteem and GPA correlated positively with student satisfaction. The overall conclusions are that a satisfied student is likely to be nondepressed with high self-esteem and high GPA. Implications of the findings are discussed.