Abstract
Interested in current research identified the extent of the application of the principles of total quality management in higher education, as it was the aim of the research to clarify the reality of the principles of total quality management in the higher education sector and find out how to apply these principles between public colleges and private through a comparison between them and the search adopted descriptive analytical method in the identification and treatment of variables, As well as it has been relying on multiple measures ready developed in accordance with the objectives of the research and the nature of the environment that has been researched. For the purpose of achieving the goals of the research, formulated two Chairperson hypotheses emerged of them subsidiary hypotheses, has been tested on a sample of lecturers at colleges and totaling (200) lecturers at the rate of (115) lecturer in public colleges and (85) lecturers in community colleges, and the researcher used the questionnaire in data collection needed for research, and to verify acceptance of the research hypotheses had to use a number of statistical methods of the most prominent of the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, weight percentile, the relative importance, test (Wilks Lambda), and test, (Discriminant Analysis) Chi-Square. Most prominent conclusions of her research are awareness and understanding the full of the lecturers of the importance of total quality management and its principles, but there was a disparity in terms of the application of these principles in the public sector on the one hand and the disparity is too large with the private sector on the other hand, so the researcher recommends that the government colleges can attract and retain individuals with scientific titles as long as possible through the enactment of some legislation to contract with seniors or pay them like rewarding college eligibility.
