Abstract This study was undertaken to determine the factors affecting the increase in participation of the students in physical activity and solutions. In order to gather information a researcher made questionnaire with 32 items was used, that the level of reliability were obtained 0.77 with Cronbach's alpha test, and content validity were confirmed by 10 professors in the sport management field. The population of this study was more than 122 thousand students of Mashhad universities; According to Morgan table 384 samples were determined for this study. A stratified random sampling was conducted. In order to analyse of data K-S test and abnormal distribution test is used, For this purpose, test results showed that, all research variables effect on increasing students’ sports participation, Which impact of the stimulus was greater than the other dimensions. It was concluded that attention to factors of this research is essential to increase students’ sports participation. In addition, solutions to increase sports participation of students were listed in this study.

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