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The study aims to utilize future educational studies for achieving the quality of educational research at Saudi universities by determining its reality from the faculty perspective. It aims to determine the obstacles and the mechanism of activating the utilization of future educational studies for achieving the quality of educational research at Saudi universities. Moreover, it highlights the differences in the responses of faculty and Academic staff on the obstacles of utilizing future educational studies for achieving the quality of educational research at Saudi universities due to specialization and academic degrees. The author adopted the developmental descriptive approach and applied a questionnaire to a sample of faculty members. The results showed that future educational studies helped achieve the quality of educational research from the faculty perspective with a high degree. The participants highly agreed on the obstacles to utilizing future educational studies for achieving the quality of educational research at Saudi universities. The participants also highly agreed on the mechanisms for achieving this utilization. Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences in the participant's responses on the obstacles to utilizing future educational studies for achieving the quality of educational research at Saudi universities due to specialization in favor of fundamentals of education and academic degree favoring assistant professor. The study recommended establishing specialized committees of experts on future studies at the Saudi departments of education to set standards and plans to activate the utilization of future studies. (Published abstract)