Analysis of International Student Mobility from Turkey via Erasmus+ Program

The purpose of this study is to explain the factors affecting the student flow from Turkey to different countries which takes place by means of Erasmus+ program in 2015 with the gravity model. The variables reflecting the economical size of the countries and the variable representing the distance between Turkey and the country visited were added to the gravity model formed and the statistical significance of the model was tested. Moreover, at which level the student potential which wanted to have an education with Erasmus+ was affected by the quality of the visited country’s universities, visited country’s having a Mediterranean climate, its foreign language’s being English and its being an OECD country were analyzed as dummy variables