BEING A UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN A SMALL CITY: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF RIZE/TURKEY

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  • Gulcin Bilgin Turna Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey

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https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v7i1.248

Abstract

Universities face a competitive environment all around the world. In Turkey, the number of universities has been increasing in the last decade which means attracting qualified students is ever more critical. There are many studies concerning the students’ perception of their host universities. In addition to universities, host city itself also plays a crucial role in term of students’ overall satisfaction of their university life. Therefore, this study aims to identify the attributes of the host university city, assess students’ satisfaction with the key attributes of the city, and get students’ ideas how to make the city more attractive to university students. This study is done in Rize which is considered to be a small city in Turkey. A focus study was conducted with 53 sophomore students who study Business Administration or Economics at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University. The findings indicate that the students perceive accommodation, socializing, cost of living and safety as the most important attributes of their host university city.

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2015-03-31

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Turna, G. B. (2015). BEING A UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN A SMALL CITY: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF RIZE/TURKEY. VFAST Transactions on Education and Social Sciences, 3(1), 138–140. https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v7i1.248

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015): January-December

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