Seventy-four Iraqi universities and colleges achieved competitive positions in the UI GreenMetric classification for the year 2023.
The results of the ranking (https://greenmetric.ui.ac.id/rankings/overall-rankings-2023) evaluated one thousand one hundred and eighty-three university institutions around the world. Iraqi universities were able to increase their global competitiveness to seventy-four institutions in comparison to the results of the previous edition. For the year 2022, which included seventy-three universities.
The UI Greenmetric classification is based on the criteria of infrastructure (15%), energy and climate change (21%), waste (18%), water (10%), transportation (18%), education and research (18%), in addition to sustainability, environment, green spaces and consumption. energy.
It is worth noting that the University of Babylon topped the Iraqi universities in this classification, as it ranked 133 globally, followed by the universities of Anbar, Al-Mustaqbal, Baghdad, the Middle Euphrates Technical University, Basra, Al-Mustansiriya, Karbala, Sumer, Al-Kafeel, and Al-Qadisiyah, all the way to Al-Hamdaniya University.
It is noteworthy that Iraqi universities and colleges recorded their increasing competition in international classifications, including the Shanghai Classification of Academic Subjects for the year 2023, in which the University of Baghdad appeared within the specialty (Dentistry & Oral Sciences), and the classification (The Times), in which there are currently thirteen. University and the (QS) classification, in which there are five universities, and the (Scimago) classification, in which there are twenty-two institutions, and the (Greenmetric) classification, in which the number of Iraqi educational institutions in the 2023 edition increased to seventy-four universities and colleges, and the URA classification, in which there are four Iraqi universities, in addition to them. Webometrics classification, which recorded the attendance and competition of more than a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges.
Department of Information and Government Communications
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
December 7, 2023
