This research investigates which factors affect the urban experiences of 18 to 25- year-old university students in Izmir. It focuses on factors such as gender, income, living with or without family, and lifetime in İzmir above or below three years. It investigates how these factors affect students' use of the city's socio-cultural areas, daily and general shopping areas, sports and outdoor activity areas, and outdoor eating and drinking areas. It also investigates the places in the city that students enjoy and are unenjoyable and why they enjoy or are unenjoyable. Aiming to go one step beyond the survey and trying to use the Qualitative GIS method, it tries to capture sketch maps and narratives in a single study by using spatial markings and open-ended questions in the survey, and while doing this, it uses Survey123, with an ArcGIS application. Research data were collected from 32 men and 58 women who were Izmir Institute of Technology students. The result of this study explains the urban experiences and city perceptions of university students in line with survey results and spatial markings. As a result, it develops suggestions and strategies for the design of activity areas by looking at the urban usage areas of the students