ABSTRACT

Economic development has been important in all societies throughout the history. Today, the concept of economic development is differently perceived by different segments of society. In this study, a total of 38 questions about development and Turkish Economy are asked to 288 students in Trakya University/Department of Economics in 2015 academic year and significant differences were tested by SPSS 17.0 (Statistical Packet for Social Scieces). There are statistically significant differences according to the participants’ gender, income, educational course, grade, family income variables. Also, there are statistically significant differences for gender in Mann-Whitney U and for individual income, grade and family income in Kruskal-Wallis test results. Consequently, it is observed that demographic characteristics of students are more dominant than the educational level of students on their development and Turkish Economy perceptions.