EVALUATING THE EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF CANDIDATES FROM DIFFERENT MAJORS (HUMANITIES, TECHNICAL AND FUNDAMENTAL) AT THREE DEGREE LEVELS (BACHELOR, MASTERS AND PH.D.)

The aim of this study was to evaluate the educational status of candidates from different majors (humanities, technical and fundamental) at all three degree levels (Bachelor, Masters and Ph.D.). The purpose is functional and was performed by data collection in a quantitative method. All national entrance examination candidates from humanities, technical and fundamental majors in 2013-2014 formed the participants. The research instrument was questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaires was approved by experts and scholars; the questionnaires reliability, using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, was more than 70/0. The questionnaires were distributed to six public and private universities conducting the upper and lower entrance exam for three academic degrees selected by purposive sampling, the participant sample was chosen using a stratified random sample of candidates accepted in existing disciplines at that universities. The sample size consisted of 2293 of those that were accepted. One sample t-test, t test for independent groups, ANOVA test, Tukey test and rank test Friedman was used to analyze the data. The results showed that all the Bachelor candidates educational status were significantly higher than average in various aspects of educational, psychological, familial, economic and cultural dimensions. The educational status of the Master and Doctoral candidate volunteers were significantly higher than average in all dimensions. Notably, the Master's candidates in economics were significantly lower than the average, but the doctoral candidates were in the middle in the cultural dimension. The fundamental sciences and humanities candidates were in the medium level for the culture dimension.