Özet:

At the present time, as the new universities being established day after day, the numbers of universities are increasing gradually. University choice of university student candidates, which becomes more of an issue in their professional life, is getting more important as the number of universities increases. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the reasons for university choice of faculty of education music education department students who are placed to the universities at the fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year as first graders. The study is a descriptive study. The study group consists of 114 first graders, getting education from the Faculty of Education Music Departments, which are located in Aydın, Denizli, İzmir and Muğla. A questionnaire form, which was developed by the researchers, was used in the study. The questionnaire form consists of semi-structured and structured questions. The results of the study have shown that more than a half of the participants had taken a talent examination of another university’s music department and half of the participants that had taken more than one talent examinations had passed more than one talent examination that they had attended. The participants who took more than one talent examination mostly preferred Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Education Music Department. Participants preferred their universities because of the education quality of the department, because of their hometown and because the only department that they could achieve the talent examination was the department that they were placed. While most of the participants do not want to get education from another music department, almost all of the participants think that the department that they have placed, is good enough for fulfilling their professional goals in the future.

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