Significant research supports the contention that several variables influence academic achievement. This study has undertaken to examine the influence of the three variables of emotional intelligence, self-esteem and spiritual well-being upon the academic achievement of first semester students at a private Christian bible college. The results of the statistical analysis for each of the four research questions indicate that emotional intelligence and self-esteem when examined alone are not statistically significant although some scales approach the significance level. Analysis reveals that the construct of spiritual well-being by itself is significantly correlated with first semester college grade point average. Three other variables in combination provide a potential predictive model. Also presented are the results of an investigative analysis of three additional variables of gender, parents' highest level of educationand high school GPA and their influence upon the first semester college GPA.