QS Arab Region University Rankings 2025
The QS World University Rankings (QS Arab Region University Rankings 2025) has announced the results of its special edition for universities in the Arab region, with twenty-five Iraqi universities achieving positive competitive rankings.
The global ranking (https://www.topuniversities.com/arab-region-university...) indicated that 246 institutions in the Arab region competed according to the indicators of academic reputation (30%), employer reputation (20%), faculty-to-student ratio (15%), international research network (10%), web impact (5%), percentage of faculty with PhDs (5%), citations per research (5%), number of research papers per faculty (5%), percentage of international faculty (2.5%), and percentage of international students (2.5%).
The results showed a significant increase in the number of competing Iraqi universities to twenty-five compared to last year’s edition, which witnessed the competition of only eighteen universities, while Baghdad University ranked thirty-eighth in this edition, followed by Mustansiriyah, Basra, Nahrin, Kufa, Babylon, Technological, Anbar, Karbala, Mosul, Middle Euphrates Technical, Nineveh, Tikrit, Diyala, Qadisiyah, Islamic University, Wassit, Iraqiya, Muthanna, Central Technology, Northern Technology, Southern Technology, Fallujah, Kirkuk and Dhi Qar.
It is worth mentioning that more than 100 Iraqi universities and colleges compete with their counterparts in eight global rankings, which made Iraq rank 29th in the world in terms of the number of universities ranked in the Times World University Rankings and seventh in the Times Sustainable Development Rankings.
