The Cost of Being a University Student in Istanbul Announced

Istanbul Planning Agencyfor the Urban Agenda Overview series “Cost of Being a University Student in Istanbul” He published a report called. The report focused on students’ access to scholarships and dormitories and the reasons for the cost of living. The research was published in October and examined primary and secondary school students. “Education Cost of the Economic Crisis” continuation of the report.

Cost of living for students exceeds minimum wage

students especially shelter and nutrition The report also revealed the cost of being a student, as the economic and social problems they experience, especially the ones they experience, come to the fore more and more. According to the report, a student has to spend more than the minimum wage every month.

The highlights of the report are as follows:

• Students will attend lunch at state universities in the 2023-2024 academic year. 93.83% more per meal paid money. Students’ monthly grocery shopping also increased by 113.29% in the two-year period.
• The number of girls’ dormitories opened by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the first time in 2021 increased to 14, and the bed capacity increased 5,191 found it. Since 2020, the number of KYK dormitories has decreased to 23, but the bed capacity has increased from 25 thousand. for 40 thousand rose.
• Capacity of KYK dormitories in Istanbul in the last 17 years more than 3 times It increased.
• Expenditures for “higher education dormitory construction and rental”, BTK expenditures 63.55% was at the level of 23.37% of the amount spent on Religious Services and Non-Formal Religious Education and 1.73% of interest expenses.
• Living cost of a student staying in KYK dormitory in a year 89.53% It increased. The area where the increase was highest was in grocery expenditures with 217.09%.
• Monthly living cost of a student living in a private dormitory 14.583 TLmonthly living cost of a student staying at home 12.533 TL happened as.