For various reasons, university students take drama lessons, which are offered as a required or selected course for different age groups in formal education. Drama is one of the courses available to university students from many colleges and departments who want to strengthen their cultural and creative skills. This study aims at finding out how university students who have drama classes describe drama, why they choose drama, and what they expect from the drama lessons. Through targeted sampling, 115 university students were reached in the study, which employed basic qualitative research. The “Elective Drama Course Readiness Determination Form” was utilized to gather data for the study, and descriptive analysis was employed to analyze the results. Participants in the survey frequently associated drama with theater, claiming that drama is theater or a subset of theater. The participants choose the drama course to contribute to their individual growth (contribute to the studies in their departments, discover different aspects of themselves, have fun, be curious), to be interested in art and performing arts, and to enhance their skills in theater and drama. The participants’ goals for the course are to improve themselves (in areas such as communication skills, self-confidence, different perspectives, creativity, imagination, empathy, socialization, entertainment, relaxation, and self-discovery), and to learn more about theater (acting, theater theory, staging, dramatic writing, and reading play texts) and drama (knowledge about drama, improvisation skills). Considering the results of the research, it is suggested that the contents of drama courses should be better promoted in universities, studies should be carried out to eliminate the misconceptions about drama, and students should choose the drama course accordingly.