Subject Selection Criteria from the Viewpoint of the Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University

Selecting a fresh and applied topic for research is an important and difficult task. Studying the most important criteria for selecting a research topic from the point of view of graduate studies students is the aim of this paper. This survey, which is done by survey method, is an applied research in terms of purpose and it is a descriptive-analytical one in terms of nature. The statistical society is the total number of graduate studies students of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz (1489 people), using the Krejsi-Morgan table, the approximate sample size was estimated at 306 people. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Studies have shown that, among the criteria for selecting a research topic, the students have paid more attention to criteria such as “the new and applicable nature of the subject” and “the possibility of taking advantage of the results of research in the future”. They do not care much about the criterion of “place and organizational belonging”. Therefore, education groups and graduate studies students of the Humanities and Social Sciences, should select a fresh and applied subjects in the topic selection process to be able to take advantage of their results in the future.