Nahrain University (

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: جامعة النهرين), also known as Al-Nahrain University, is a

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established in 1987 and located in

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. The university offers

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and

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education as well as research opportunities. From 1987 to the

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, the university was known as Saddam University which was then changed to its current name "Nahrain" meaning The Two Rivers (as in the two rivers of

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and

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Overview

With two campuses in central

, Nahrain University is widely viewed as one of the best universities in Iraq due to its strict admission requirements, updated curricula, and relatively better educational equipment. The university's stated mission is to prepare scientific cadres for the development of intellectual thinking in Iraq and create its future generation of leaders and

think tanks A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental org ...

. Until 2005, Nahrain had a special admission process that included a rigorous IQ admission exam followed by an admissions committee interview. Thus, very few students were annually admitted and lectures had as little as 20 students per class. Nahrain was considered as a private-governmental university since 1988 because it was not under the Public University System of the

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Iraq) The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) is the Iraq government agency responsible for higher education and scientific research. It monitors the work of universities and allocates their budgets. It is also responsible for ...

but rather had its own independent university system directly funded and partially controlled by the Office of the President of the Republic of Iraq. However, in 2007, Iraqi President

Jalal Talabani Jalal Talabani ( ku, مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, translit=Celal Talebanî; ar, جلال طالباني ; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2006 to 2014, as well as ...

signed a law that officially transferred Nahrain University to the authority of the

. To comply with the Public University System, Nahrain had to remove its special admission requirements, change its system to a regular year-based academic year (Fall and Spring only), and eliminate the five year joint bachelor's and master's degree program. Many Iraqi academics protested the decision since Nahrain's system was the most unusual in the country and considered the change a big loss for the Iraqi higher education system. The university was the first in the country to implement a semester-based academic year and provide student the option to earn a joint bachelor's and master's degree in five years. In addition, Nahrain's Information Engineering College was the first academic institute to offer

Information Engineering Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data, and knowledge in systems. The field first became identifiable in the early 21st century. The component ...

studies in Iraq. Currently, Nahrain still praises itself to be Iraq's best

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institute in terms of the level of scientific and academic research, and the systematic and self-discipline.

Colleges

* College of

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

* College of

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* College of

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

* College of

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

* College of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

* College of

Business Economics Business economics is a field in applied economics which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms with ...

Campuses

Nahrain University has two main campuses. The first is in

Al-Jadriya Al-Jadriya is a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq along the Tigris river. Al-Jadriya shares a significant but comparatively smaller part of the peninsula with Karrada Karrada ( ar, كرّادة ''Karrāda'') is an upper-class district of the cit ...

adjacent to the

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 ...

main campus. Nahrain's smaller and second campus is in

Kadhimiya Kadhimiya ( ar, ٱلْكَاظِمِيَّة, al-Kāẓimiyyah, ) or Kadhimayn (, ) is a northern neighbourhood of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It is about from the city's center, on the west bank of the Tigris. 'Kadhimiya' is also the name of on ...

also in Baghdad.

complex contains: * College of Engineering * College of Information Engineering * College of Science * College of Political Science * The Institute for Biotechnology Research * College of Business and Economics * The Central Library * Office of the President

complex contains: * College of Medicine * College of Law * College of Pharmacy * The Institute for Embryology & Sterility Research

Notable alumni

Ahmed Albasheer Ahmed Albasheer (Arabic: أحمد البشير; born 17 October 1984) is an Iraqi comedian, journalist, and director, best known as the creator and host of the weekly political satire show ''Albasheer Show''. He was named one of the twenty most in ...

, television presenter, comedian and satirist

References

External links

Nahrain University official website

College of Information Engineering official website

Nahrain University Facebook Page
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Overview

Colleges

Campuses

Notable alumni

See also

References

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