This study aims to investigate the general trends of graduate studies on authentic learning with a holistic approach. Graduate theses about authentic learning reached from the Turkish Council of Higher Education (CoHE) National Thesis Center Database were examined in this study. Thirtyone of these theses were included in the research. The study, with its qualitative research approach, was carried out by synthesizing the findings determined by thematic content analysis. The findings showed that authentic learning was mostly used on an activity basis in the studies. Thus the studies aimed to examine authentic learning’s effect on the relevant variables. The findings showed that while the dependent variables were investigated in the quantitative dimension, especially the skills were examined in the qualitative dimension. They also revealed that the studies focused on Science Education much, adopted mixed approaches, used purposeful and random sampling types, and run especially qualitative data analysis in data analysis. The findings also indicated that the average duration of the studies was eight weeks, trip and brainstorming were among the most used teaching techniques, the discussion was extensively used among the methods, and scenario-based learning was used most among the approaches. It was observed that mostly forms, then performance evaluation and scales, and then tests were adopted as measurement - evaluation tools, and the results obtained were mostly positive in these studies.