Visual cognitive style is an individualdifference that is related to the preference or visual imagery tendency of anindividual of processing visual information. This study examines the visualcognitive styles of university students according to their study subject, studyyear and genders and includes 448 first- and third-year university studentsfrom seven departments. The results indicate that spatial imagery tendencieswere stronger among students in the sciences, whereas verbal tendencies werestrong among students in linguistic fields. The spatial imagery tendencies ofthird-year students from the Department of Physics Engineering and the verbaltendencies of third-year students from the Department of English LanguageTeaching were significantly higher than those of first-year students of relateddepartments. Different from previous studies the finding about the tendencyincrement among first to third year of study is remarkable which can beinvestigated through experimental studies.