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With the rapid economic development in recent years, many students prefer to go abroad for higher education. International student mobility in higher education stands out as an important field of activity in today's world in its various dimensions. The international mobility of students has a significant impact on institutions around the world. International students are spread throughout the world with the hope of better education and professional experience from their own countries. But living in a new country is a new experience that brings with them political, economic, academic and cultural differences. Moving between countries, students become ambassadors of their country’s cultural heritage in the new country they’re going to. This research aims to investigate and evaluate the awareness and knowledge of international students who study in Turkey, the Anadolu University, the Turkish Teaching Applied and Research Center (TÖMER) before arriving in Turkey about their cultural heritage in their own countries. For this purpose, the quantial research design in the study has been adopted as a visual research model, the survey method as a data collection tool. The survey was implemented through face-to-face interviews with the participation of 71 students from 90 international students who studied in the 2019-2020 academic year in TÖMER in March. The data obtained was analyzed through the computer program (SPSS 25.0). The conclusion was that the TOMER students who participated in the study had a sufficient level of awareness about the cultural heritage in their own countries, and various recommendations were presented based on the results obtained.

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