This is a incomplete list of
universities
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...
in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
. There are more than 85 universities and academics in total: 35 public universities, (four
technical universities
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university or just polytechnic) is an institution of te ...
, one
institutes of technology
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university or just polytechnic) is an institution of te ...
, and two
fine arts university, one national defense university, and one
police academy
A police academy, also known as a law enforcement training center, police college, or police university, is a training school for police cadets, designed to prepare them for the law enforcement agency they will be joining upon graduation, or othe ...
) 45 private universities and colleges.
Baghdad
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Al Mustansiriya University
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Heritage University College
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Nahrain University
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American University of Iraq
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Iraqi University This is a incomplete list of universities in Iraq. There are more than 85 universities and academics in total: 35 public universities, (four technical universities, one institutes of technology, and two fine arts university, one national defense uni ...
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University of Baghdad
The University of Baghdad (UOB) ( ar, جامعة بغداد ''Jāmi'at Baghdād'') is the largest university in Iraq, tenth largest in the Arab world, and the largest university in the Arab world outside Egypt.
Nomenclature
Both University ...
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University of Technology, Iraq
The University of Technology, Iraq is one of Iraq's largest universities. It is situated in the city of Baghdad, Iraq. The university is specialized in Engineering, Computer Sciences, and Applied Sciences and Technologies. It was founded in 1975. ...
Outside Baghdad
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Al Muthana University
Al Muthanna University is an Iraqi university located in Samawah, Al Muthanna Province, Iraq. It was established in 2007.
Colleges
*College of Agriculture
*College of Education
*College of Science
*College of engineering (chemical engineering, c ...
- Al Muthanna
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Babylon University
The University of Babylon (Arabic language, Arabic: جامعة بابل) is a university located in Al Hillah, Babylon, Iraq. It consists of 20 colleges within three compounds, located seven kilometers south of the city of Al Hillah, Hillah, in Ba ...
- Babil
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Diyala University - Diyala
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Kirkuk University - Kirkuk
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Hawler Medical University
Hawler Medical University (Kurdish: Zankoy Hewlêrî Pizîşkî / زانكۆی ههولێری پزیشكی) is located in Erbil, capital of the Arbil Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشو ...
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Kufa University - Najaf
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Misan University - Misan
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Dhi Qar University - Dhi Qar
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Tikrit University - Salah ad Din
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University of Al-Qadisiyah - Al-Qādisiyyah
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University of Anbar
The University of Anbar ( ar, جامعة الأنبار) is an Iraqi university in Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq. It was founded in 1987 with a college of education and a college of girls' education, and then expanded until it reached university status ...
- Anbar
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University of Basrah
The University of Basra ( ar, جامعة البصرة ''Jāmi'at Al Basrah'') is situated in the city of Basra, Iraq. For historic reasons the final ''-h'' is retained on ''Basrah'' in the name of the university.
Founded in 1964 to meet the needs ...
- Basrah
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University of Karbala - Karbala
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University of Mosul
The University of Mosul is a public university located in Mosul. It is one of the largest educational and research centers in the Middle East, and the second largest in Iraq, behind the University of Baghdad.
The University of Mosul was closed b ...
- Mosul
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University of Wasit - Wasit
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Al-Muthana University
Al Muthanna University is an Iraqi university located in Samawah, Al Muthanna Province, Iraq. It was established in 2007.
Colleges
*College of Agriculture
*College of Education
*College of Science
*College of engineering (chemical engineering, ...
- Al-Muthana
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Samarra University - Samarra
Kurdistan region
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Salahaddin University- Erbil
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University of Sulaimani
The University of Sulaimani is a public university located in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan Region - Iraq. It is one of the important scientific and cultural centers in Kurdistan region. It was founded by Professor Dr.Mohammed Salih Beg ...
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University of Duhok
The University of Duhok (UoD) is public university located in Duhok, Kurdistan.
The University describes itself as playing a vital role in developing the community by instigating socioeconomic, cultural, scientific as well as educational progre ...
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Hawler Medical University
Hawler Medical University (Kurdish: Zankoy Hewlêrî Pizîşkî / زانكۆی ههولێری پزیشكی) is located in Erbil, capital of the Arbil Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشو ...
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Koya University
Koya University is a public university located in Koy Sanjaq, near Erbil ( Hewlêr), capital of the Erbil Governorate in the Iraqi Kurdistan region of Iraq. It was established in 2003.
History
The Kurdistan Regional Government opened colleges ...
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Soran University
Soran University (SU) ( ku, زانکۆی سۆران) is a KRG sponsored public university, founded in 2009. It is located in Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê K ...
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University of Zakho
The University of Zakho (UoZ) is located in Zakho, the Duhok Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
History
Its founding was announced as an independent university in July 2010. Before this date, there were the Colleges of Education and o ...
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University of Raparin
* Halabja University
* Garmian University
* Charmo University
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Erbil polytechnic university
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Sulaimani Polytechnic University
* Duhok Polytechnic University
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University of Kurdistan Hawler
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The American University of Kurdistan
* Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research
* Kurdistan Board for Medical Specialties
Private universities
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Knowledge University
The Knowledge University (''زانکۆی نۆلج'' in Kurdish) (''جامعة نولج'' in Arabic), is a private university located in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, and licensed from the ministry of higher education and scientific research in Kurdis ...
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Erbil
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Cihan university
Cihan University ( ku, زانكۆى جیهان, ar, جامعة جيهان) is an educational institution in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It was established in 2007 by the A University Company for Scientific Invest ...
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Erbil,
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, G ...
&
DuhokCatholic University in Erbil-
Erbil
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Ahlulbait University College
Ahl Al Bayt University is a private Iraqi university established in 2003 in Karbala, Iraq by Dr. Muhsin Baqir al-Qazwini.The university was first initiated as a virtual university appearing on the internet in 2000 as the Ahl Al Bayt Internationa ...
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Karbala
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Al Hadbaa University College
Al Hadbaa University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1994 in Mosul, Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a countr ...
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Mosul
Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second larg ...
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Al Maamoon University College
AL-Ma'moon University College (Arabic:كلية المأمون الجامعة), is an Iraqi Private college in Baghdad, Iraq. It was founded on 23 April 1990, and it is one of the oldest private universities in Iraq.
External links
University o ...
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Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Al Maarif University College
Al-Maarif University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1993 in Anbar, Iraq.
See also
* List of universities in Iraq This is a incomplete list of universities in Iraq. There are more than 85 universities and academics in tota ...
- Al-Anbar
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Al Mansour University College
Al-Mansour University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1988 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Faculties
Al-Mansour University College (MUC) consists of the following Departments:
* Civil Engineering Department
* Computer Communications E ...
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Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Al Rafidain University College -
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Al Rasheed University College -
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Al Turath University College
Al-Turath University ( ar, جامعة التراث) is a private Iraqi university and the oldest of such type in Iraq. Established in 1988 in the Mansour district of Baghdad, The name ''al-turath'' (التراث) means "heritage" or "tradition".
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Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Al Yarmouk University College
Al Yarmouk University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1996 in Diyala and the Medical Departments lie in Baghdad, Iraq.
Faculties
* Dentistry
* Pharmacy
* Computer Engineering Techniques
* Computer Science
* Pathological ...
- Diyala
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Baghdad College of Economic Sciences University
Baghdad College of Economic Sciences University is a private Iraqi university established in 1996 in Baghdad, Iraq.
See also
* Private Universities in Iraq This is a incomplete list of universities in Iraq. There are more than 85 universities ...
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Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Baghdad College Of Medical Sciences -
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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Basrah University College of Science and Technology -
Basra
Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...
Lebanese French University-
Erbil
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International University of Erbil
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Dijlah University College - Baghdad
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Humanitarian Studies University College -
Najaf
Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...
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Islamic University College
Islamic University College, Najah in Iraq is a private university, private Iraqi university established in 2004 in Najaf, Iraq. The university was established in 2004 by Sadiruldeen Al-Gubanchi. The university currently enrolls approximately 7000 ...
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Najaf
Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...
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Madenat Alelem University College -
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
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St. Clements University -
Sulaimaniyah
Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, ...
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Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...