In this study; Ph. D. theses written in the field of higher education in Turkey are analyzed in terms of various variables. In the research study conducted in qualitative research method and descriptive survey model, The research population is comprised of all Ph. D. theses written in the field of "higher education" in Turkey. No sampling method is utilized in the research study. All Ph. D. theses written from the past to the end of July 2019 in the thesis database of the Higher Education Council (YÖK) are evaluated. In this direction, the Ph. D. theses mentioning the term "higher education" are searched and 156 Ph. D. theses are detected. In the research, a thesis review forms consisting of 19 questions are used by the researcher as data collection tools. Content analysis is performed on the obtained data and frequency and percentage distributions are estimated via SPSS 22.0 software. As a result of the research, it is detected that a total of 215 Ph. D. theses in the field of higher education were prepared in 43 different universities (mostly state universities) and in 41 different departments, the quantitative method was utilized more than the qualitative and mixed methods, and the survey model and purposive sampling technique were used. It is also found that the number of theses which do not include validity and reliability studies and lack mentioning the model and sample is plentiful, descriptive [f, %, X, S] analyses are mostly applied as well as t-test and one-way analysis of variance, and the theses including advanced level statistical techniques (path analysis, ancova, manova, clustering and multidimensional scaling analysis, etc.) are quite few in number.