Analysis of the current role and position of urban design graduates in the profession(Case study: urban design graduates of Tarbiat Modares University)

Issue and

After Passing half a century since the establishment of the field of urban design in Iran and the existence of many graduateds in this field, their status and professional role in the country needs to be studied. In this regard, the purpose of this research is to analyze the role and current position of urban design graduateds in the profession. On the one hand, the high number of graduateds, on the other hand the incapability to communicate with them in other universities made this research limited to the urban design graduateds of Tarbiat Modares University.

The current research has used a quantitative survey method. The technique used in data collection is organized online questionnaire with a statistical population of 100 people (including urban design graduateds of Tarbiat Modares University entrying from 2004 to 2017). In association with the data analysis, the analysis of results technique and inferential statistics have been used to generalize the obtained results from the statistical sample to the entire statistical population of urban design graduateds of Tarbiat Modares.

The achievement of this research was to investigate and evaluate the role and current position of urban design graduateds in the profession, the results of which the results show major activity of urban designers, respectively, in consulting offices, urban management, education and research. Also, in a part of this research, it has been tried to investigate and compare the affection of factors such as continuing education and migration of graduateds, which are somehow affected by their type of activity in the profession.