Abstract
The spontaneous occurrences that do not cause any harm in nature, the destruction of natural areas by humans and the rapid increase of the population and its uncontrolled spread on the earth have led to the emergence of the concept of disaster. Knowledge and education are undoubtedly the leading biggest practices of human beings against the harms of disasters. Universities are the leading places that can provide the highest level of education in disaster training. With the study conducted, it was aimed to measure how ready the academic and administrative personnel in the university are for a disaster and to test their preparations for disaster management. The participants of the research consisted of the academic and administrative personnel working at university. In the research, the number of participants was 1693. Considering the participation, 68 percent of the population was reached. 86% of the participants consisted of academic personnel, and 14% were comprised of administrative personnel. It was revealed that the level of knowledge of preparedness and behavioral levels of the administrative personnel were determined to be higher than those of the academic personnel, and no difference was found in their levels of attitude. It was discovered that there was an increase in the level of knowledge about preparedness for disasters as the ages of the personnel increased, and the received disaster training was found to be one of the causes of this increase.