Post-Islamic revolution higher education orientations

Higher education as an influencing organization in society has to embed transformation management and all its elements in the form of a corporate establishment and occasionally, it has to analyze its sum of the intentions, inputs, processes, outputs and performances in various methods in order to keep its quality dimension along with its quantity dimension in balance. In the present paper, the higher education orientation has been analyzed in three early decades of and after the revolution. The study methodology is historical and efforts have been made to present the goals with an analytical perspective through benefiting from the available references and documentations. Studying the orientations has been based on the 1st-5th plans of the economic, social and cultural development of the country. The data indicate that in Iran higher education orientations in the 1st and 2nd decades of the Islamic revolution, the dominant approach has been focus, grandiosity and emphasis on the higher education qualitative growth, though , from the third decade onwards ,the data suggest that the change in Iran higher education orientation is in the research and concentration on the role of creating knowledge along with transferring the knowledge and paying attention to the qualitative growth and decentralizing Iran higher education structure.