Evaluating Admission Barriers of Foreign Students into Universities and Institutions of Higher Education

The aim of current study was to investigate the barriers of admission of foreign students into universities and institutions of higher education from the viewpoints of the foreign students at Shahid Beheshti University. A descriptive survey method was applied. The statistical population consisted of all international students (N=75) in which 63 students were selected through simple random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was developed and its content validity was confirmed by academic experts. Using Cronbach’s alpha, questionnaire reliability was estimated 0.86. The most important findings illustrated significance differences in admission barriers of male and female foreign students. The results of one-way ANOVA showed that there was a significant difference for nationality variable while there was no significance difference for academic variable.