Cluster Analysisof University RolesinAchieving Iran's20-Year Vision Plan Case Study (University of East Azerbaijan province)

The development of a country depends on the creation of a scientific idea and provides high quality education systems. In this study, we have tried to investigate Iran’s university roles in achieve Iran’s20-year vision plan and reply to this question “what is East Azerbaijan province university roles in Iran’s20-year vision plan? How is cluster analysis of university roles in achieving Iran’s 20-year vision plan in East Azerbaijan province? In this research for collecting data we used the library and field resources so that for compiling the literature of the research we used library sources specially Iran’s 20-Year Vision Plan documents.The populationwasall deans of thepublic (31), non-government (34)anddistance educational systemuniversities (30) inthe provinceofEast Azerbaijan. Date gathering has done by a questionnaire that its stability has reported 89%. To analyze the data resulted from collected questionnaires deductive and descriptive statistical methodsare used. In deductive level to test the questions of the research we used cluster analysis and Friedman test. Findings shows that, distance educational system university’s cluster analysis concluded that they have less distance then public universities and have more distance then non-governmental universities.

Educational System, Educational Structure, Educational Costs, Educational Products, Research Activity, University, Iran’s20-Year Vision Plan.