Abstract for: Applying System dynamics to simulate Iran’s engineering post graduates employment status

Iran’s universities have been used to enroll students with out considering market’s capacity for university graduates. A fact which has led to problems such as lack of experts in some fields, under employment and unemployment in many others. While, forecasting market’s capacity for university graduates and enrolling students based on the predicted capacity is the best way to hinder such problems. In this paper, we aimed to apply System dynamics to forecast capacity of Iran’s market for engineering post graduates from one side and number of engineering post graduates from the other side to make it possible to predict post graduates’ employment status in country’s near future. The results show that there will be ample job opportunities for phd graduates such that they will not face unemployment or under employment in upcoming years. Phd students will have a good occupational status in near future while master students’ employment status will aggravate in onward years such that most master graduates will be relegated to jobs requiring less knowledgeable workers such as careers that require a bachelor’s degree or non degree jobs.