Our University Takes precedence over 18 thousand Universities Internationally
Despite the short time available for the University to enter the realm of international rankings, although conditions are not encouraging ,the university suffered after the wars , the blockade and occupation, but it continues to its strategic project towards progress and evolution, to occupy advanced ranks that are less in the history of universities internationally, especially after hard efforts and very careful and continuous monitoring of the presidency of the University of Baghdad, from here the University of Baghdad has won a new international ranking that overtakes more than 18 thousand Universities under the “Webometrics Ranking” which is issued from Spain, to make the university a new thousand rank of its former classification, then to be in the top after it was outside the classification internationally for many years.It occupied within the site 43 continentally among universities in Asia, and of sequence 3160 of the sequence up to more than 22000 rank in Webometrics.
This scientific victory came to the university and Iraq in general after minute strategic plans have been drawn up about scientific and academic orientation of the University and after the scientific linkages that have been strengthened through the establishment of a great deal of good relations with ancient and well-known universities, which recognized the scientific activities and potentialities of our university and its academic role in the society. The success of the university was significant to many who are interested in the university, thus the University received a tremendous amount of letters and telegrams, comments, blessing this success and the efforts of the university , educational reality in Iraq and reputation of Iraq which is raising day after day by what the Iraqi universities are doing of achievements ,academic developments and scientific innovations that contribute to the development of society. The website of the University of Baghdad was packed with a host of congratulations and blessings as well as the University and the website received congratulations from the Minister of higher Education and Scientific Research. A lot of officials in the government have also congratulated the university above them was the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki who considered the scientific progress of the university a historical victory.
The university has developed an electronic and strategic plan and has applied to undermine these advanced ranks , a plan drawn up according to an important and significant strategic perspective and by specialists , experts and senior engineers in the fields of Web sites, computers and softwares, including the university president, Dr. Engineer Ghassan Hamid Abdul Majeed Director of Computer Center , Prof. Dr. Abdul Baset Salman Website editor , Prof. Dr. Hassan Mandeel the supervisor of Arabic and Mr. Bassim Hameed Jremid Director of Website, and then the university resumed developing the website by putting plans and new standards that specialists and experts in the media and university performance collaborate such as Dr. Kadhem Al Omran Director of Information University and Dr. Abdullah Hikmat the Quality Assurance and university performance Manager to work within the strategic dimensions with more care , follow-up and support to make the university progress toward the highest and best ranks .The university worked day and night for the completion of all measures and massive reforms in the university which can be found by the topic “University of Baghdad in international electronic project” which was published in the website two years ago.
