Özet:

Educatio n is the most important power showing the development level of a society since centuries. Today, the power showing the development of the societies is the knowledge level of the university graduates. Universities are very important educational institutions in terms of both the students they train and the way they lead the society. While the mission of universities is determined by academicians, the first step of the academicians is the postgraduate education. In order for the academicians to fulfill the duties expected from them, they need to have a good postgraduate education. There are a number of factors affecting the quality of the postgraduate education. From this point of view, the aim of this study is to determine the problems experienced by the postgraduate education students during their education. In the study, phenomenological research method among qualitative research methods was used in the study. Face-to-face interviews were held with 30 students studying in postgraduate education at the Institute of Social Sciences in Erzurum Ataturk University. As a result of the study, it was determined that the majority of the participants are female and in the age group of 25-30 years, most of them were civil servant, 18 were graduate students, 12 were doctoral student and the participants were studying in postgraduate education for one or two years. The students wanted to continue academic career after completing the education period, most of them experienced educational problems, a great majority of them started to their education consciously, their thoughts about the postgraduate education before the education were still continuing, most of them were in the thesis stage of the postgraduate education and experience research-related problems at this stage. It was concluded that the majority of the participants felt often stuck and depressed, but they still did not consider to leave the postgraduate education and they expressed that they would receive postgraduate education again if they come to the world again. The participants believed that there were differences between the postgraduate education and their own education understanding and they stated that there are problems related to educational deficiencies in Turkey and the quality of postgraduate education should be enhanced. Based on the results obtained from the study, it can be recommended to find out and eliminate the problems experienced in postgraduate education and to support the graduate students in both material and spiritual areas.

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