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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-actualization, self-perception, and student-evaluated teaching success at the university level. The Personal Orientation Inventory, a measure of self-actualization in two major and ten subscales, the Employee Selection Perception, a measure of self-perception in five major and twenty-five subscales, and the Student Description of Teaching, a measure of student-evaluated teaching performance, were the instruments used in this study. The population consisted of all faculty members in the Educational Foundations and Inquiry, History, Home Economics, and Industrial Education and Technology schools or departments at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. All three instruments were completed by forty-three of the eighty- five faculty members representing the population of which thirty-four (40 percent) could be used in the study.The three major null hypotheses of the study were accepted as there was no significant difference at the .05 level in the self-actualization and self-perception of the Most Successful Teachers (top third) and the Least Successful Teachers (bottom third), nor was there a significant difference in the major scales of the self-perception of the Most Self-Actualized Teachers and the Least Self-Actualized Teachers. However, one of the subscales of self-perception was significantly different at the .01 level. The Most Self-Actualized Teachers saw themselves as significantly more empathic than did the Least Self-Actualized Teachers. Only one of the minor hypotheses (descriptive data) was significantly different at the .05 level. Fewer years of formal university education correlated with better student evaluations. Sex, age, experience, diversification of teaching experience, marital status, and rank were not significantly related to student-evaluated teaching success. It was concluded that the self-actualization and self-perception of university faculty should not be used as predictors for student-evaluated teaching success.