The study of masters and PhD thesis of rural studies in the university of Tehran (2000-2011)

The aim of this essay is assessment of the MS and PhD thesis of the rural planning، rural development and rural extension and development field’s that، have been performed for over a decade (2000-2011) in geography، agriculture and social sciences faculty in the university of Tehran. Methods such as documentary data and library studies have been used. 289 thesis have been studied in this research. Variables such as gender of students، field of study، number of thesis، year of graduation، methods of research، and distribution of provinces which are studied in this thesis، have been analyzed. This study was conducted in a qualitative manner and for data analysis، content analysis has been used. In the next step، the subject of the thesis is classified under 24 Codes. The result shows that the most diversity of the subject is in the faculty of geography and the lowest is in the faculty of social sciences. The most studies have been carried out in the villages of Tehran province and the lowest is done in the villages of the province of Sistan and Baluchestan and Hormozgan. Issues such as deprived villages، tribal communities، rural youth، historical studies، political studies، family changes، rural cooperation and rural planning have been low.