-

Although there has been few research dealing with the selection of student for post secondary education in different disciplins concluding that the selection process has not been quite appropraite and it should be revised logically but, unfortunately no research has been conducted as yet dealing with
the selection of appropriate graduate candidates at M.Sc level. Due to the lack of a unique selection process, some universities around the world require
the applicants to respond to few questions in an application form prior to their admission were as some higher education systems as in Iran, require the
applicants to take part in a qualification entry exam. This research studied the attitudes of the agricultural faculty members in the University of Tehran about the mechanism of the Graduate Student Admission Process (GSAP). The research population was 131 faculty members. Twenty three members were
not available during the time research was running due to their mission in sabbatical leave or Ph.D studies. Therefore 108 faculty members were included in the study from which 93 questionnaires were received back. The
research instrument was a two part questionnaire. The first part was consisted of 17 personal and professional characteristics, and the second was consisted
of 57 items considered as influencing the GSAP. The Alfa Cronbach Coeficient of 0/87 and 0/89 were calculated for reliabilitv measurement of the first and second part of the research instrument respectively. SPSSWin7 was applied to process the data collected. Data reduction process such as factor
analysis and group comparison methods as well as measuring correllations were applied. Forty six out of 57 factors have been agreed by the

respondents to be effective in GSAP. Attitudes of the faculty members were statistically different in 10 factors based on their level of education, age, area
of specialty, university rank, and the number of their participation in designing the entry test items at M.Sc level. Applying factor analysis through Varimax factor rotation device, showed that among 22 out of 47 factors, which were
positively influencig GSAP, 17 items played meaningful role building factors. and these factors expressed 68.1 percent of GSAP }'Iriance. These factors were identified and were recommended to be considered in GSAP process for
better selection of the candidates.