Identifying the competencies of future leaders in the higher education system

The current research has been done with the aim of identifying future competencies in the higher education system. The current research is qualitative and thematic analysis of phenomenological interviews.

The study population included 16 experts in the field of leadership development for the interview process using the purposeful sampling method. For the purpose of coding quality, reliability, acceptability and reliability were used for the findings, and the agreement between the evaluators was 0.89.

According to the findings of this research, the competencies of future leaders in the higher education system consist of 8 individual dimensions, social-organizational management, cultural intelligence, global citizen, organizational knowledge and strategic planning, diplomatic organization, social responsibility and discourse creation.

Knowing about the researches of the present research, it is possible to obtain indicators describing the competencies of the leaders of the future system of higher education in order to act in the direction of their selection and development in higher education.