A Study on the Value Systems of the Fourth Region of the I.A.U

This paper aims to study and examine the value systems among the students region of Islamic Azad universities. The population includes all students in academic year 2008-9 among whom 400 ones were selected from 10 universities as a sample. The student's value hierarchies were examined using Alpourt 45- item questionnaire(A.V.L). Descriptive and t-inferential statistics and multivariate variance analysis were applied on the collected data. Overall findings showed that the highest value for the students was the economic one, followed by non-practical, artistic, political, social and religious values. Also there was no significant difference among the student's hierarchies of value in terms of gender, degree programs and field of study.