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“Early in the revolution, 170,000 out of a population of 35 million Iranians were students but today there are some 3.5 million students. This means that the student population has grown by 20 times,“ said Zahedi in a meeting with a group of American deans and Universities, IRNA reported.
Zahedi noted that girls constitute 60 percent of the state-run universities’ students and 51 percent of other Iranian universities’ students.
“At the beginning of the revolution, there were PhD courses for 10 branches of sciences but now there are PhD courses in all branches of science,“ he said.
Zahedi also said some 500 international-level scientific articles and essays were produced annually in the early years of the revolution but the number of Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) articles stood at 13,000 in 2008.
The same number of articles was published in other reputable magazines, showing a rise of 52 percent.
I found this interesting because here at Penn State we look at over enrollment as a problem and take it for granted that a lot of us can enroll anywhere we want. to jump from 170,000 to 3.5 million is a great accomplishment. Another interesting fact is that women made up the highest percent of college students, Iran is one of those countries that is expected to keep their women at a lower level than men but these results prove them wrong.
-Meka Brooks
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