The Study of Iranian Qualitative and Quantitative Higher Education Indicators and their Comparison with International Indicators

The paper that is written based upon a library research method discusses the importance of Iran status at the era of producing technology and science that it has been recently considered. In this study, Iran status is compared with regional countries (such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Syria) and some developed and developing countries (such as Germany, France, Japan,Canada, Norway, United States, England, Venezuela, Colombia, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Cuba) by using twenty technology achievement indicators (TAI). The data have been gathered by international databases such as UNESCO, World Bank,International Labor Organization (ILO), and UNDP to compare exactly as well as the data are based on the most recent databases have been available to all countries. According to the comparison, Iran has the lowest status of educational function indicators among all countries and it is ranked the lowest in seven indicators than regional countries too, it is ranked the lowest in technology and research indicators among all countries as well. But it is ranked the highest in research indicators than regional countries and it is ranked on average in technology indicators.Furthermore, Iran’s research indicators have rather high status than regional countries from 1990 to 2005.