Özet:

People adapt to the circumstances they encounter throughout their lives. The university life, which is the last stage of the education taken before the career life, is also a situation where students have difficulty adapting. Many students leave their families for the first time, come to a different city, establish new friendships, and most importantly take responsibility as an adult person for the first time in their educational lives. The purpose of this research is to determine the levels of adaptation of class teaching candidates to the university life. The research has used a screening model. The research was carried out with 86 teachers candidates who are studying in the School of Education Class Teaching Bachelor Program of a state university in the Western Black Sea Region. The research has used the Personal Information Survey as a data collection tool and the University Life Compatibility Scale developed by Lion (2015) . The scale consists of three factors: Personal Compatibility, Social Compatibility and Academic Compatibility. The study ended with the fact that teaching candidates studying in the class teaching bachelor’s program have a high level of adaptation to the university life, their level of adaptation to the university life is not different according to their gender, the type of high school they graduate, the place they stay, the monthly spending amounts, the working conditions and the order of choice of the department they study, the level of class, the type of settlement in which the high school they graduate, the conditions of satisfaction of the department and the reasons for choice of the department they study.

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