Sixty-two Iraqi universities and colleges have registered competitive positions in the Times Sustainable Development Rankings for the year 2024.
The official published results (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings#!/length/25/locations/IRQ/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc) indicated an increase in the number of Iraqi universities and colleges that reserved their positions in the Times Sustainable Development classification to 62. University after it was 53 in the last edition, topped by the University of Basra, which ranked (401-600) globally, then the universities of the future (601-800), Baghdad (601-800), Babylon (801-1000), and Kufa (801-1000).
It should be noted that the British Times Sustainable Development Classification evaluates (2,152) universities from (125) countries by achieving a number of United Nations goals out of 17 goals, including quality of education, health, well-being, partnerships, industry, and innovation.
It is worth noting that Iraq ranked 37th in the world after 13 universities achieved competitive positions in the classification (The Times), while Iraqi universities and colleges recorded their increasing competition in other global classifications, including the Shanghai Classification of Academic Subjects for the year 2023, in which they appeared. The University of Baghdad is included in the specialty (Dentistry & Oral Sciences), the Scimago classification, in which there are forty-seven institutions, the Greenmetric classification, in which the number of Iraqi educational institutions has increased to seventy-four universities and colleges, the RUR classification, in which there are forty-five Iraqi universities, and the Webometrics classification is added to it. ) 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
June 12, 2024
