Access to effective application of knowledge will increasingly determine the ability of nations in achieving productive, remunerative and ecologically sustainable agricultural development. It is thus decisive to have some strong graduate programs of high quality that are relevant and responsive to agricultural development needs. The relevance of graduate research projects and the quality of them thus deserves careful attention to leverage and optimize graduate research in agriculture and rural development. The purpose of this paper is to recognizing academic research condition in agricultural extension, education and development in Iran. To this end, the study analyzed 315 thesis and dissertation to understand, how and to what extent, proper research methods are applied to achieve realistic outcomes. Findings of logistic regression show that university and educational level especially focus on research method base on nature of data have key role in applying best research method.

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