Introduction: The aim of the current research is to develop key scenarios for the optimal policy in the field of admission and attraction of international students. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and is among qualitative researches, and it was carried out with the future research approach and the GBN scenario writing method. The participants of the current research included 26 experts in the field of higher education and those who had executive and research experience in the field of recruiting and accepting international students. The sampling method in the qualitative part was targeted and selected based on the theoretical saturation level. The tool of this research is a semi-structured interview in the qualitative part. Thematic analysis method was also used to analyze the interviews. Results: The results obtained in the qualitative section identified 38 main categories as driving factors. Then, a questionnaire was designed from the results of the interviews, . The existence of appropriate institutional and managerial structure for the acceptance of internationalization in universities obtained the highest overall score, respectively, and these two propositions were selected as propositions with critical uncertainty for developing scenarios. Conclusions: four scenarios: Terazjahani University; Qane University; Talented University and Old University were identified as the key future scenarios of attracting and accepting international students in the country's public universities And according to each scenario, policy solutions were presented.