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Of course, besides these, there are also individuals studying with ordinary passports (refer to page image)* and perhaps the number of Iranian students abroad could be estimated at 25,000, but the truth is that we are forced to consider half of them as "fuel" and wasted capital, with no hope of their return or productivity.
This is in conditions where facilities have just been(*)Ministry of Science: Statistics of Iranian students inside and outside the country, Tehran, Office of Student Affairs, Ministry of Science, 1348 SH, Vaziri Bozorg, 112 p (refer to page image) are provided more than ever for individuals with higher education, but if we accept these same statistics and estimates and base our calculations on 7,000 students whose field of study is specified, we must say that 84 percent of Iranian students residing abroad are studying in scientific and technical fields, such as medicine, engineering, science, and agriculture.
Since in this same year, 200 people also, with permission from the Ministry of Science, went to foreign countries for higher education please turn the page Chart of the percentage of students in Iranian universities and higher education institutions in the main groups of academic disciplines in the academic year 1348-1349 (refer to page image) estimated.
The number of university graduates is also not very striking, reaching 7,000 annually, which, even if the education and specialization of all these individuals were what society needs, it would still in no way meet this need; because in contrast to the annual increase of 700,000 people in the country's population, neither those 23,000 students in technical fields nor these 7,000 university graduates can be considered a significant group.