In educational institution students are the important input for the system, furthermore they are part of organization’s client. Because of the importance of system’s input in getting goal, the way of student selection is very important too. Therefore universities, according to their goals and policies, try to establish the student selection system in such a way that all volunteers are measured by objective criteria irrespective of individual consideration and in the just way and finally ranked.

     One of these institutions is Imam Sadeq(AS) University that from the beginning of its establishment with due to its goal considers some public competencies in the student selection process, in addition to the usual scientific competencies. In this regard in addition to scientific competencies religious, cultural and social competencies of volunteers are studied in the student selection office of the university and finally the priority of volunteers are identified. So determining the student selection criteria, weight of every criterion and measurement method for each of them are very important for university selection office.

     Because of some limitation in scientific resources for student selection, in this dissertation, among identifying resemblance between human resource selection and that of students selection, the result of studies about staff selection has been used to suggest a suitable solution in student selection. Also AHP and SAW methods, which are types of MADM methods, were used for reviewing the existing criteria and determining the weight of them. By applying these methods the weight and the importance of the criteria of students’ selection in Imam Sadeq(AS) University were identified quantitatively.

     Finally the validity of results was evaluated. For this purpose a sample of student with 30 members was selected. Then every member of this sample was evaluated one time according to existing system and another time with this suggested study system. Then these two groups of scores were compared. By using analysis of variance method it was specified that in this sample there are not any meaningful difference between existing system and the suggested system.

     So the suggested system has had more advantages because of its easiness and speediness in application and training of investigators. But it should be emphasized that the application of the suggested system in a real case needs to be retested in a bigger sample.

Student Selection, Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM), Hierarchical Method (AHP), Manpower Selection