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The study aims to study the meanings charged with the academic concept in accordance with the opinions of the university's final class students. The research model has been used by the facts of science. The technique of convenience sampling (convenience sampling) is used to identify the work group. The study group included 348 final class students of the university studying at Bingöl University in the 2019-2020 course year. In the study, the form containing a metaforic phrase was sent to students in an online medium (Mail, WhatsApp). In the analysis of the data obtained in the study, the "content analysis" technique was used. According to the study, the university has produced 154 different metaphors related to the concept of "academic" of the final class students. When the metaphors created by the university's final class students were categorized according to similarities, 21 separate categories and 3 themes were created. The topics that the university’s final class students make up towards the academic concept were gathered under topics, respectively, such as “Be a rehber” (49.78%), “Research” (45,98) and “Negative Characteristics” (4.31) respectively. According to the perceptions of the university's final class students about the academic concept, the conclusion has been achieved that academics are often perceived as "rehber" and researchers.

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