A Look at the Approaches to Establishing a World-Class University in Iran

Nazarzadeh Zare, Mohsen

doi:10.22034/rahyaft.2020.13798

A Look at the Approaches to Establishing a World-Class University in Iran

Author

mohsen nazarzadeh zare

Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran

10.22034/rahyaft.2020.13798

Abstract

World-class universities are academic institutions which dedicated to creating and spreading knowledge in a range of disciplines and contexts, providing the higher education with quality at all levels, responding to national demands, and help to increasing the interests of international. Therefore, promoting status of universities and also, promoting rank of them is as a main goal for most of universities and administrators around the world to achieve a world-class university. The aim of the present study was to investigate the approaches to establishing a world class university in Iran, to achieve the aim, a documents analysis method for gathering and analyzing the documents and evidences about world class university was conducted. The results showed that each country for having a world class university must to consider their potentials for choosing one of the fundamental approaches (e.g. promotion, integration and build). According the point of view of present researcher and with comparison between approaches to achieve world class university also, considering lack of budget in our country as well as, existence a few universities with international context, promoting the current universities is an appropriate approach to achieve world class universities in Iran.

Keywords

20.1001.1.10272690.1398.29.76.4.8

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