Geography Graduate Students' Views on Their Present Position After Graduation

Universities are the most important institutions that prepare students to life and they get the opportunities to be trained for their future occupations during their lifetime. Students work very hard to have a good university degree and spend so much endeavour and effort to educate themselves. The important issue to decide the university years is career planning which is related to graduation. At this stage care and concern of their life after graduation is also increasing closer to final class. Because post-graduate education and occupational choices emerge as an important career choices and they also linked to how much they can provide qualifications and requirements in our country. This case is also related with students which is studying geography in the Universities. Many students are studying in Faculty of Arts and Sciences in geography departments and Faculty of Education in geography teaching departments in Turkey. In this study, results of a survey are evaluated which is related with 11 different universities and 1693 students of geography and geography teaching departments. In our study of geography students, postgraduate education and vocational preferences with expectations and concerns of after graduation are evaluated. More than half of the students preferred teaching profession, and also close to half of the students want to continue to post graduate education. Students concerns and expectations of after graduation is employment issues.