In today's information age, the importance of distance education concept which is realized by online learning which supports the learning of individuals in every age, everywhere and in every subject is emphasized. In distance education environments; the extent to which individuals feel themselves in social environments, how the perception of social presence and how physical distances affect communication, and how operative distances have consequences on individuals have become an important problem. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social presence levels and transactional distance of university students who receive distance education. In the study, relational scanning which is one of the scanning method models was used. The data were obtained by using the Social Presence Scale and Transactional Distance Scale. In addition, Personal Information Form ‘prepared by the researcher was used for the purposes of the research. The research has been applied to 607 first year students in Mersin University Social Sciences Vocational School in the first semester of 2018-2019 academic year. According to the findings, students' social presence and transactional distances; they do not differ according to gender, type of education, distance education experience, working status and the place they lived before the university, but they differ according to the departments and technological competence levels. When the relationship between social presence and total scores of transactional distance scales was examined, it was determined that there was a positive and moderate relationship.