Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. Student in Educational Management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

2 Ph.D. in Educational Management and Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

3 Ph.D. in Educational Management and Professor, Department of Educational Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

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Introduction: Universities and higher education institutions, as knowledge-based institutions, play a key role in the development of countries and their performance in different domains should be evaluated. Ranking is one of the tools for assessing the performance, competitiveness and success of universities. It is desirable to rank as one of the key missions of the higher education system, so that, with its implementation, we can see the change in the behavior of institutions on the path to the goals of the macro.
Methods: In this paper, we identified the ranking indixes of the Northeast Universities of Medical Sciences, which extracted from 119 citations of the 27 original codes and categorized into 7 branches. For the ranking of the medical sciences university, the main functions were considered. Is taken to select appropriate criteria based on content analysis and the most important concepts of each criterion were introduced.
Results: The results show that the most influential codes of each criterion were standardization, training factors, governance index, research, quality development index.
Keywords: ranking, medical sciences, standardization, qualitative development

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