Preferences for choosing a course for students entering secondary education based on Hierarchical Analytic Method (AHP)

The purpose of this study is to study the preferences of student selection based on Hierarchical Analytic Method (AHP) among high school students. The data were collected by a pair of paired questionnaires from among 30 sampled educators. The validity of the questionnaire was based on the opinions of experts and university professors. To determine the theoretical framework of the research, the views of sociologists and educators have been used. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and for each pair of comparisons, each of the criteria of the school's factors, personal abilities and interests, future job opportunities, parents' opinion and social factors with the courses in high schools, including mathematics and physics, Empirical sciences, humanities, Technical and professional, and work and knowledge two to two are compared. The final results show that the fields of experimental science, mathematics and physics, technical and vocational, work and knowledge and humanities have Preference and Priority to choose and continue education. Also, the result of the paired comparison of the criteria and factors suggests that the person's ability and interests were 46% in the first priority, then the future job opportunities with 22% and the school's factors, social factors and, ultimately, the parent's views with 11, 4% and 4% respectively are located.