Fast and sudden changes in the societies in the third millennium which is along with rise new technologies based on information as well as the key role of educational organization in conveyance of knowledge so that meeting development and scientific achievement are required rethinking the management system of the universities and higher education structures.

so the comparative study over the management system of open university and diatance university on the one hand and common university on the other hand in 1380 has been carried out.

The research society included all universities' both kindsـ. The sample was selected from all universities located in Tehran,5 zones, and 20 centers of distance universities in Iran and the same amount from the open universities were selected through randomly cluster sampling. the findings included as followed: the management system of distance university is affected by its educational structure and also the common universities benefit from mechanical structures than distance ones do the organic and finally the process of learningteaching in distance universities are designed by the structure while in the common universities the lecturers themselves do that.