Objectives: The present study aims to investigate the obstacles to the development of religious thought in students from Islamic Azad University faculty members’ point of view. Method: The study is a survey method. The statistical population comprised all 189 faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of South Tehran Branch and all included in the sample. The research tool is a researcher-made questionnaire, comprised 48 questions in five dimensions (Individual, Family, Sociocultural, Economical, Attitudes and motivations) with a reliability of 0. 82. One-sample and independent groups T-test, and one-way Anova used for data analysis. Results: The faculty members considered individual (mean 4. 22), family (3. 13 average), sociocultural (mean 3. 30) and attitude and motivational (4. 12 average) barriers as the important barriers to the formation of religious thought in the students. Conclusion: To promote religious thought, it is needed to pay special attention to the engineering of students’ thinking development plans, to revise the cultural planning of the universities.