An analysis of orientation level of students coming from tukish republics to turkey for higher education

This study has been made to find out the factors that influence the adaptation levels at the students who come to Turkey for higher education purposes from Turki Republics The scope of the study covers 300students that come Turkey from Turki Republics and that study in universities in Ankara(Ankara, Gazi, Hacettepe and Middle East Technical University).The sample group is made up of 110 students that were chosen randamly. İn the study Hacettepe Personality İnventary was used to to find out students? adaotation levels and also Personality İnformation from which was developed for this study was used. For the statistical evaluation of the data that was gathered in the study ttesti and one-way analysis ine the variances were used The data gathered from the study can be summarised as folloıos: 1. The personal, social and general adaptation levels of female students was found to be higher than male students. 2.The relation between the personal and general adaptaiton levels of students and the education levels of their mothers was found meaningful. The personal and general adaptation levels of students whose mothers are university graduates were higher than the adaptation levels of students whose mothers are lycee graduates. 3.It was found that the adaptation levels of the students were not infiuenced by factors such as age, education levels of the father, perceived academic success, whether the scholarship of MEB is found or not, whether the students is happy of sufficient studying in Turkey or not, home country, levels of education persued, whether the student has economical living problems, whether he/she has a close friend in Turkey, the attitude of the mother and father, the time spent in Turkey, whether they work or not, the freguency of their visits to home country, and where they live.