Iranian students enrolled in college of Medicine, Education, Science and Literature (N = 400) judged the importance of teachers' selected characteristics in personal-social and cognitive-intellectual domains. Iranian students regardless of their sex, field of study and academic year preferred personal-social attributes over cognitive-intellectual attributes. Results were compared with findings of a study conducted in Israel in which cognitive characteristics were most highly valued.
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