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Purpose: The studying public policy can play an important role in improving the country's study situation. As a result, the present research was conducted with the aim of pathology of studying public policy of students in Tehran province from the teachers' perspective. Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of implementation method. The research population had two parts, which in the first part was 30 cultural experts of education in the cities of Tehran province in the 2018-19 academic years, which number of 15 people of them were selected as a sample with using the targeted sampling method. The research population in the second part was 26889 teachers of education in the cities of Tehran province in the 2018-19 academic years, which based on Cochran's formula number of 379 of them were selected as a sample by stratified random sampling method, respecting the size of the population in each region. The cultural experts declared their level of agreement with each of the items of the initial researcher-made questionnaire (23 items in the two components of the studying social policy and studying general policy) during two Delphi rounds, the teachers also declared their agreement with each of the items of the modified researcher-made questionnaire (8 items in two components). The data were analyzed by percentage of agreement and one-sample t-test in SPSS software. Findings: The findings of the first part of the research, i.e. cultural experts showed that after two Delphi rounds, among the 10 items related to the studying social policy the percentage of agreement for 5 items was higher than 50 percent and among the 13 items related to the studying general policy the percentage of agreement for 3 items was higher 50 percent. Also, the findings of the second part of the research, i.e. teachers showed that the percentage of high and very high importance of 7 items out of the final 8 items of the modified questionnaire was calculated above 70%. In addition, in both components of studying social policy and studying general policy the population average significantly was higher than the hypothetical average (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results of the present study have many practical implications for public policy officials, managers and planners. Based on the results of this study, they can take an effective step towards improving and promoting the studying public policy of students.