ABSTRACT The tittle of this research is Tanggapan Mahasiswa Komunikasi Terhadap Kompetensi Komunikasi Dosen Dalam Proses Perkuliahan Di Fakultas Ilmu Sosial Dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Syiah Kuala. The problems of this research are (1) How the response of Communication Science students about lecturer’s competence communication in teaching learning at Syiah Kuala University Social and Politic Science Faculty, (2) How the response of Communication Science students about performance and teaching learning process that practice by the lecturer in lecturing process. And the objective of this study are: (1) To find out whether the response of Communication Science students about lecturer’s competence communication in teaching learning at Syiah Kuala University Social and Politic Science Faculty. (2) To find out whether the response of Communication Science students about performance and teaching learning process that practice by the lecturer in lecturing process. This methodology is quantitative research. Quantitative is the method which purpose to developing and using the systematic models. This research was conducted at Social and Politic Science Faculty and the respondent is Communication Science students. The supporting theory that used in this research is S-O-R theory. The population in this research is all of the Communication Science students FISIP Unsyiah from 2011 until 2013 students, from all the populations are 375 students. the sample of this research is getting from Slovin formulate s o the respondent become 65 students. To collecting the sample technique is by using Purposive sampling and to collecting the data collection by using questionnaire. Based on the research result that had done by the researcher, most of half (53,3%) Communication Science students of Social and Politic Faculty of Syiah Kuala University realize that competence of lecturer communication in Communication Science study program is well, but almost of half students (47,7%) realize in Social and Politic Fa culty especially in Communication Science study program still lack in building a good relationship with their learners. Then, half of students (50,7%) answered that some lecturer rarely come to the class without informing to the students before. So, from a ll of the research we can conclude that competency of communication of half the lecturer at Social and Politic Science Faculty is not well yet. Keyword: Communication Competency, Students Response