Ministry of Science, Research and Technology

General statistical information on Universities ,University Students ,Faculty Members ,Science publications ,Research Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 

The current page, provides general statistical information on Universities ,University Students (year 2019),Faculty Members (2019),Science publications ,Research Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) is a public body of executive power, which carries out functions on elaborating state policy and normative-lawful regulation in the sphere of higher education, science and technology, innovative activity, and intellectual property.

The Ministry's mission is directed at realization and development of intellectual potential of the nation (a key component of stable and dynamic development) of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It considers the national, regional and international goals, interests, policies and ambitions, and is seeking sustainable development for mankind welfare, peace and prosperity in the country and across the world.

The main missions and goals of this Ministry can be outlined as:

1. Highlighting the importance and necessity of satisfying the needs of population in higher education,
2. Providing accessibility of a qualitative education,
3. Piloting, developing, monitoring, analyzing, assessing, regulating, encouraging, and supporting the national/regional/international science-technology programs,
4. Promoting cooperation and exchange of inter/intra university collaborations/achievements/activities inside or outside the country,
5. Educating, training, and equipping economics the required specialized personnel for the country and worldwide,
6. Integration of higher education and science-technology achievements,
7. Reforming scientific sphere and stimulating innovative activity as the key sources of stable economic growth,
8. Increase of prosperity and development in the society,
9. Elaboration and approval of the State standards of higher, post-graduate and additional professional education,
10. Ensuring the accessibility of qualitative higher education for all groups of population as the base of social mobility and lowering social-economic differentiation in the society,
11. Lowering social-economic differentiation in the society,
12. Ensuring actual and perspective requirements of economics and social sphere in professional personnel of necessary qualification; creating conditions for development of continuous higher education,
13. Creating conditions for active involvement of university students and educational institutions into economic, social-political and cultural life of society and creating conditions for sustainable development and efficient usage of scientific and technological potentials,
14. Creating conditions for energizing of innovative activity,
15. Forming priority directions for development of higher education, science, technologies and techniques, list of critical technologies and priorities of innovative activity of the I.R. of Iran,
16. Coordination of scientific researches and elaborations that are financed at the expense of public fund,
17. Seeking to find new ways and relevant international bodies as cooperation fields,
18. Providing policies, strategies, plans, etc. for expanding and promoting the regional and international academic, science and technology cooperation,
19. Organizing regional/international meetings, conferences, workshops, lecturing, exhibitions, as well as exchanging sabbatical leaves, scholars, researchers, students, and other academia delegations of foreign partners,
20. Encouraging and supporting set up and opening of new campuses in other countries,
21. Initiating and promoting implementation of the Agreements/Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) between international partners,
22. Establishing or fulfilling the joint workgroups/Committees in fields of higher education, science and technology,
23. Running joint research ventures or educational programs with foreign partners,
24. Keeping close relations with the Iranians elites, researchers and specialists abroad in terms of science and technology transfer and collaborations,
25. Stimulating innovative activity as the key sources of stable economic growth and increasing the prosperity in society.
26. Developing Persian Language and Literature at the target universities/institutes abroad and providing the required Iranian visiting lectures.