Determining the Diversity of Missions in Iranian Higher Education System

The purpose of this study is to determine the diversity of missions in the Iranian higher education system.

This study was conducted by exploratory mixed method. Content analysis was used in the qualitative part and its statistical population was upstream higher education documents. The quantitative part of the field method and its statistical population were 100 Higher Education Specialists of which 57 out of 80 samples randomly answered to the questionnaire of Diversity of Higher Education Missions (with Cronbach's alpha 0.869). Maxqda software was used in qualitative part and Spss was used in quantitative part.

Based on the content analysis, 45 desirable missions were obtained for the Iranian higher education system. Manpower and the spread of educational justice there is diversity.

In spite of diversity, universities and higher education institutes of the country have become similar and indistinguishable organizations in their missions. Therefore, it is necessary to organize the university ranking system, Budget oriented results, Accountability of the subsystems, organizing the scientific management system of the country and attention to preparation and mission orientated in higher education seems necessary.