The research aimed to: identify the degree of life skills to university rural youth and their axes ‎‎(personal skills - social skills - cognitive and behavioral skills), and their relative importance in ‎Sharkia governorate, identify the level of innovative thinking to university rural youth, and test ‎the significance of differences in the mean scores of the respondents in the Life skills and their ‎axes. And the level of innovative thinking according to the different nature of the college in ‎which they study, determining the factors affecting the life skills of the rural youth of the ‎university respondents, and finally trying to arrive at a causal model that clarifies the causal ‎relationships of the series of factors to improve the level of innovative thinking to the ‎respondents. The research was conducted using the social survey method on a sample of 366 ‎students in the fourth year of rural origin in the Faculties of Agriculture and Arts, Zagazig ‎University, and field data were collected for a personal interview questionnaire, and “Google ‎Form” questionnaire, from October to the end of December 2020, and the data were analyzed ‎using: frequencies and percentages The arithmetic mean and the relative weight, the Cronbach ‎alpha coefficient, the "T" test, the progressive progressive multiple regression analysis, and the ‎Path analysis to track the causal relationships. The study found: that university rural youth have ‎life skills at Medium degree by 56%, and social skills came first in life skills with a weight of ‎‎75.7%, followed by cognitive and behavioral skills with a weight of 71.7%, followed by personal ‎skills with a weight of 65%. The results also showed an increase in the level of innovative ‎thinking of the respondents, by 51.9%. The results also showed the significance of the Affiliation ‎level For the local community, the degree of social justice (with a negative impact), the degree of ‎interpersonal skills, and the degree of cognitive and behavioral skills (with a positive effect) at ‎the level of creative thinking, as the variables explain 52.1% of the variation in the level of ‎improvement in the level of Innovative thinking for the university rural youth respondents.‎