Planning a Sustainable University Model Based on the Researches in Iran

Sustainable development and balanced in all economic, social, cultural, political and environmental dimensions of the community depends on the development of human resources, the continuous development of higher education institutions and the establishment of sustainable universities. The purpose of this research is to systematically study and synthesize research on theoretical models and researches conducted in Iran with the subject of sustainable university in order to summarize, classify and integrate the components of the University.
Using qualitative method of Meta-Synthesis, 15 papers were studied and data collection and analysis data was done by open, axial and selective coding and using Nvivo-10 software.
203 of the University's sustainability indicators were organized in 25 components and 8 dimensions. Dimensions in terms of number of referrals and number of sources in descending order are: campus environmental management, sustainable education, contributors, sustainable management, social capital, sustainable research, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, and administrative and financial.
The results of the findings showed that: less research has been done with a native and comprehensive approach to sustainable higher education, The environmental dimension of sustainable development has been considered more than social and economic, cultural as well as key and infrastructure of other aspects of sustainable development, have been neglected. Designing a comprehensive and holistic model of sustainability universities, according to Iran's culture and Islamic-Iranian model of progress for future research is recommended.