Cities are perceived in different ways by its residents. This perception differs with regards to different factors such as the age, level of education of the people and also as to being a local or foreigner. And at the heart of this perception lies experiences. Perception is key to understanding and organizing urban spaces, and solving various problems. To complete the lacking aspects, to reform the negative aspects of cities and increase awareness about them, it is substantial to know about the opinions of the students about cities. What is aimed in this study is to evaluate the perceptions of students studying at Balıkesir University about the city of Balıkesir. The problem of this study is the evaluations of the students of Balıkesir University about the city of Balıkesir; how they perceive the image of Balıkesir city. In this regard 460 students; studying at the last grade of bachelor’s degree at the University of Balıkesir; have been surveyed. With this survey; images of city superiority, abstract images of the city and images towards urban residents were identified within the perspective of university students. When all the participants are taken into account, the geographical location of Balıkesir and the easy reach it provides to other cities are the highest values attached. However, the opinions related with social, sportive, cultural, leisure, entertainment and artistic activities have low values attached. Also the images with regards to modernity and development have low values. Parallel to these two representations, the images of the people of Balıkesir about entrepreneurship and innovation have lower values than other representations.