This paper examine preferred / dislike teaching/learning techniques among postgraduate student at a
Malaysian university. Past studies had indicated the promotion of students’ “graduateness”,
responsibility lies in the hand of teachers who need to know what are in the mind of student with
regards to their most preferred or non preferred learning and teaching style. 57 returned questionnaires
were accepted and coded, and subject to further analysis with a response rate of 73 percent from the
private university. The result revealed that the highest ranked technique most preferred by the students
was “interactive lecture by instructor and the most dislike technique was formal lecture by instructor.
Significant finding was that though there were some differences within the different disciplines, some
commonalities seem to be present. Future study should consider alternative modes of enquires such as
employing the longitudinal method of data collection design and a nationwide survey covering
samples from the whole population of the higher institutions of learning in Malaysia that would be
more significant in making generalizations
