Explanation of Inequality and Ranks of Universities in Tehran City to Achieve Sustainable Development

Abstract

This study aims at evaluating and ranking the universities of Tehran city at input, process and output indicators as well as investigating the inequality between them in order to achieve sustainable development. The statistical population of this research consists of 383 state university students in Tehran City and they are selected as samples by random sampling method. This research has descriptive-analytic survey method and is applied in terms of objective. It is documentary in terms of data collection method and the reliability of its questionnaire is equal to 0.951. Data analysis is done by Topsis and SPSS. According to research results, the first ranks belong to Tehran and Sharif universities in input indicators; Tehran and Amir Kabir universities in process indicators; and Tehran and Amir Kabir universities in output indicators respectively at comprehensive and technical and engineering universities. Furthermore, the results of ranking indicate that there are differences between universities of Tehran City in terms of these indicators.