Identifying the Components of Internationalization of Higher Education from the Point of View of Experts from Northeastern Government UniversitiesMasoumeh Hosseini

Internationalization of higher education in Iran is a significant need through which understanding other nations and cultures become possible. Global societal needs must be addressed in this respect. In order to fulfil the 20 – year’s perspective that is documented in the agenda, decision makers have to operationally respond the global societal needs. This study is applied based on purpose and it is qualitative based on data. Participants included eighteen elites (faculty members).Research aids consisted interview for semi constructed sessions. Sampling was done purposefully as well as snowball continued to theoretical   scenario. The validity of the qualitative section and the precision of the findings of this research were verified by the opinions of the professors and the experts and the erudite of this field Totally 200 non repeated words and 126 conceptually same words were obtained. The concepts were divided into 2 main categories(supra-structure and super-structure indicators) and 14 sub- categories(10 supra structures " Input components" and 4 super structures " Output components").These wree obtained from" the Components of Internationalization of Higher Education". The components were attributed as two groups: input and output components. The input component directly affects the process of internationalization while the output component has indirect effect on the process.