The Requirements of the University's Policy Research in Tehran State Universities

This research aimed to identify the requirements of the university's policy research in Tehran state universities. In this regard, some requirements were identified through extensive study of literature and research findings and were confirmed by 48 experts involved in a two staged Delphi technique. Then in order to confirming and finalizing 9 internal and 5 external requirements, via a questionnaire, the views of 121 University's managers from the departments of instruction, research and administrative-financial affairs were taken and analyzed. The findings indicated that with the exception of political requirement that was eliminated in the first stage of the interviews, all the major and the minor requirements have been approved by the respondents. Additionally the findings revealed that with exception of Shahid Beheshti University and Khoje Nasir University and Amir Kabir University's success in providing some internal and external requirements, the universitie's degree of success in achieving these requirements in all cases were below average. Finally, in order to fulfill these requirements in the country's universities some approaches and solutions have been identified.