A study to find out the preferred free e-mail services used by university students

The aim of this study is to investigate the free e-mail usage of students in the technology departments of the university, and also to learn which free e-mail service the participants prefer. The volunteer participants in this study consisted of 150 undergraduate students attending the Near East University in Northern Cyprus. 50 students from Department of Computer Information Systems (CIS), 50 students from Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies (CEIT), and 50 students from Department of Computer Engineering (COM.ENG). Data were collected using questionnaire. SPSS 16.0 was used to analyzed and interpret the collected data. Anova, frequency and percentage methods were used during the analysis process. According to the results indicate that it can be seen that a large majority of the students use the e-mail services and the majority of them chose to use the Hotmail.