Historical Study Of Student Admission In Iran; From Who To How

The Objective of this study is to examine the history of student admission in Iran.

This research is a qualitative research that used the historical research method. The method of data collection was library studies in such a way that the legal documents related to student admission (with emphasis on the documents of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, the Islamic Parliament Research Center, the National Organization of  Educational testing and historical resources) were studied.

This research generally shows four time periods for student admission in Iran: 1- assessment and admission period by faculties and universities (1313 to 1348); 2- assessment period by the national organization of educational testing and admission by universities (1348 to 1359); 3- assessment and admission period by the national organization of educational testing (1361 to 1386); 4- assessment period by the national organization of educational testing and the Ministry of Education and admission by the national organization of educational testing (1386 to now). Also, during these periods, many quotas were allocated to some volunteers, which can be categorized into five types of geographical quotas, revolutionary and self-sacrificing quotas, organizational (union) quotas, individual (award) quotas, and gender quotas.

In the end, after the historical study of student admission in Iran, it was concluded that although at the beginning, most of the transformations were related to how to select students, gradually, as the actors of student selection increased, especially in the post-revolution period, there were more disputes about who.