Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Ahmad Amouzeshi ¹
• Farshid Abedi ²
• Mohammad Amiri ³
• Zahra Amouzeshi ⁴
• Alireza Jamshidi ⁵
• Forod Salehi ⁶

¹ Faculty member, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.

² Faculty member, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.

³ General Physician, School of Medicine, Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan. Infectious Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

⁴ Faculty member, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran. Birjand University of Medical Sciences ,Birjand, Iran

⁵ Medical student, School of Medicine, Baghyattallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

⁶ Faculty member, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Department of pediatric Cardiology, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the educational needs and interests of students and the satisfaction of these in order to pave the way for attracting foreign students to study at Iranian universities. In this descriptive study, 320 students were randomly selected based on the ratio of the number of university students to the number of students in different fields. In order to collect the necessary data for the research, a questionnaire including demographic information and research questions was used. The questionnaire was scored based on a five-point Likert scale. To analyze the research questions, descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-sample t-test, independent two-sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance, post hoc scheffe test, and Friedman test were used.Participants of this study included 320 students from different majors at Afghan universities who wanted to continue their studies abroad. Of these, 60 (31.9%) chose India and 59 (31.3%) chose Iran as their destination. Also, 177 (55.3%) of them considered educational facilities as the most important factor in choosing a country to continue their studies whereas 94 (29.4%) considered university reputation as the most important factor in choosing a target university.

Keywords

• Continuing education
• foreign students
• higher education