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Web 2.0 technologies have led to the development of social media platforms that enable users to produce their own digital content and share it synchronously in a two-way communication. One of the most popular of these channels is the YouTube web site. YouTube is a platform where people can deliver their own video clips as well as watch and interpret what others have developed. People use the YouTube site for purposes such as entertainment, product research, access to authentic content and information acquisition. The aim of this study is to reach the opinions of the computer engineering students about their YouTube usage profiles and the educational use of the videos published in YouTube. The research was designed as a survey within the quantitative research paradigm. The sample of the study was composed of 100 undergraduate students (72 male 28 female) studying in the Department of Computer Engineering at Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. A questionnaire was developed to collect the data consisting of participants' demographic features, their use of the Internet and YouTube, and their goals and opinions regarding the use of YouTube for educational purposes. According to the findings, most of the participants access the internet primarily from smartphone and interact with the internet for an average of 6.4 hours a day. The participants stated that YouTube was the most used social media (72%), they subscribed to channels that produce educational content (84%) and watched educational videos (99%). They use YouTube mostly for entertainment (84%) and academic (67%) purposes. The students believe that the videos on the site have educational functions such as repetition, compensation, individual learning opportunities, and preparation for exams. No significant difference was found in students’ views according to gender and grade level.

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