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STUDENT FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY CITIES: RESEARCH OF CITY AND UNIVERSITY SATISFACTION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS STUDYING IN KARAMAN PROVINCE

Mehmet Polat(KARAMANOĞLU MEHMETBEY ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-7153-9738
Sefa Usta(KARAMANOGLU MEHMETBEY UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES)0000-0003-3846-7987
Hasan Ege Söğüt0009-0000-2056-7387
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2025-12-29
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In addition, it was determined that as the city satisfaction increased, the university satisfaction also increased.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Nowadays, when choosing a higher education institution, students decide whether the university and the city where the university is located are student-friendly or not.
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Nowadays, when choosing a higher education institution, students decide whether the university and the city where the university is located are student-friendly or not. In other words, many variables from transportation to accommodation, entertainment to sports, from the perspective of the city people to job opportunities should meet the expectations of university students and attract university students. In this study, it was aimed to measure the satisfaction of students regarding the city of Karaman and Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University (KMU) in the context of student-friendly cities and to reveal the practices that are student-friendly and therefore should be continued and the practices that are not student-friendly and therefore should be improved. For this purpose, a face-to-face survey was applied to a total of 700 students determined by the random stratification method. As a result, it was determined that both the city and the university did not fully meet the expectations of the students, especially in terms of organizing social, cultural and sports activities. On the other hand, as a result of the difference analysis, it was seen that the opinions of the students regarding university and city satisfaction differed significantly in terms of some demographic variables. In addition, it was determined that as the city satisfaction increased, the university satisfaction also increased.

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Polat, M., Usta, S., Söğüt, H. E. (2025). STUDENT FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY CITIES: RESEARCH OF CITY AND UNIVERSITY SATISFACTION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS STUDYING IN KARAMAN PROVINCE. Anadolu Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Volume: 26 Issue: 4. https://doi.org/10.53443/anadoluibfd.1709570

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