Effective communication skills take an important place in terms ofthe professional and personal qualifications of the teacher. This isbecause the learning process, in the most general sense, is acommunication process itself. In this process, the competence andsuccess of the teacher play the crucial role for a meaningful messageexchange. One of the important factors that boost the teacher's influenceon the student is his ability to generate healthy communication. Thehealthy communication of the teacher with the student is required bothfor high academic achievements and changes in students' attitudebehavior.Success emerges as a changeable concept from person to personand from society to society. What does success verbalize, and who arecalled as successful? What does a successful life look like? It is verydifficult to answer all these questions because there are no distinct andbasic criteria that may measure the concept of success. Being aware ofthis difficulty, the purpose of this study is to identify the characteristicsof the academic staffs that are considered as the most successful by theuniversity students and to develop a standard scale tool to be used indetermining the qualifications to render academic profession successful.In this study, descriptive method has been used. The scale wasconstituted in the light of 35 experts’ opinions and aimed to determinethe qualities that render academic profession successful, and then thescale has been reduced to 23 items as a result of preliminary applicationstudies including 75 people. The final scale has been applied to 234 students selected as the sample. The structural validity, internalreliability and applicability of the "Scale for Academicians thatuniversity students consider successful" has been shown viaCronbach's alpha value=0.944 and factor analysis (total factorload=66,111%) results. A measuring tool with high validity and reliability,consisting of 23 items and four sub-dimensions, has been achieved as aresult of the analyses. It has been identified that the qualifications forsuccessful academicians are visionary leadership, communication skills,classroom management, and democratic attitude. As a result of theanalysis, it was determined that the visionary leadership, classroommanagement and democratic attitude affect communication skillspositively. Also, it was concluded that communication skills have apositive effect on the academic profession. However, it is believed that itwill be helpful to support the obtained results with larger scaleapplications.