Abstract: Objective Constructing a network relationship between the perception of educational environment, academic self-efficacy, and various dimensions of academic engagement, in order to provide specific support for improving academic engagement among students from the School of public health. Methods Convenient sampling method was used to enroll 964 students from the School of from the 2018-2022 cohort at Ningxia Medical University. Develop a questionnaire based on the comprehensive basic situation survey, educational environment perception scale, academic self efficacy scale, and academic engagement scale, and perform descriptive analysis, one-way ANOVA, and visual network analysis on the data. Results The scores of perceived educational environment, academic self-efficacy, and academic engagement among students from the School of public health were (58.94±24.03), (75.90±15.01), and (62.38±21.44), respectively. The visual network analysis results showed that learning ability is the most important dimension in the network relationship between educational environment perception and academic self-efficacy. There was a negative correlation between various dimensions in the network relationship between perceived educational environment and learning engagement. The relationship between all dimensions of academic self-efficacy and academic engagement was relatively close. Conclusions The scores of educational environment perception, academic engagement, and academic self-efficacy among students from the School of public health are relatively low, and are influenced by age and whether they are impoverished. This study preliminarily established the network relationship between educational environment perception, academic self-efficacy, and academic engagement, which has certain referential value in improving academic engagement among students from the School of public health.

Key words: Public health, Students, Network analysis, Perception of education environment, Academic self-efficacy, Academic engagement