This study is pertinent due to the Covid-19 global pandemic that has affected many economic sectors, education being one of the worst affected. This empirical study was undertaken to understand factors that affect mental wellness of final semester students at a public university in Malaysia. This targeted group of students had been exposed to two semesters of face-to-face teaching before the forced change to virtual learning. The study aimed to understand how mental wellness is affected by technology, transition challenges and lecturers. This is a descriptive, correlational study and data was collected via online questionnaire which was made available via Google link. A total of 119 students participated in this online survey. The measurements were based on valid and reliable studies and the data was analysed using the PLS-SEM technique. The predictors (technology, transition challenges and relationship with lecturers) explained 39% of the variance in mental wellness of the students. Interestingly, it was discovered that technology did not affect the students’ mental wellness. However, both transition challenges and relationship with lecturers had positive relationship with mental wellness of the students. Transition challenges had a higher impact on students’ mental wellness more than relationship with lecturers (?=0.387, p<.01).. Future research needs to focus on challenges faced by lecturers due to virtual teaching. Equally important is to understand the transition challenges faced by students.
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