Study the factors affecting the choice of higher education nonprofit institutions from candidate’s view (Case study: Preuniversity students in Qaemshahr)

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the choice of higher education nonprofit institutions by pre-university students in Qaemshahr.From the population of the study 3176 people is randomly selected and a questionnaire was used to collect data that its reliability is 91/0 and its validity was approved by using the same external research and opinions of experts and university professors, finally, data from 320 students were analyzed by using SPSS software. Toanalyze the data t-test and Friedman test was used. The results show that among the studied variables,  including economic factors, factors related to the university, personal factors and social factors, economic factors are most important to students and social factors are the least important.

Key words: economic factors, factors related to the university, personal factors, social  factors, higher education non-profit institutions