The QS World Rankings announced the results of its version of the universities of the Arab region (QS Arab Region University Rankings 2025), in which twenty-five Iraqi universities achieved positive competitive ranks.
The rankings (https://www.topuniversities.com/arab-region-university-rankings?countries=iq) indicated that (246) institutions in the Arab region competed according to the indicators of academic reputation (30%), reputation of the institution with employers (20%), ratio of college members to students (15%), international research network (10%), web impact (5%), percentage of college members with doctorates (5%), citations per research (5%), number of research per college (5%), percentage of international college members (2.5%), and percentage of international students (2.5%).
The results showed a noticeable 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. The University of Baghdad ranked in this version first locally and thirty-eighth in the Arab world, then the universities of Mustansiriya, Basra, Nahrain, Kufa, Babylon, Technology, Anbar, Karbala, Mosul, Middle Euphrates Technology, Nineveh, Tikrit, Diyala, Qadisiyah, Islamic University, Wasit, Iraqiya, Muthana, Central Technology, Northern Technology, Southern Technology, Fallujah, Kirkuk and Dhi Qar.
It is worth noting that more than a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges compete with their counterparts in eight international rankings, which made Iraq rank 29th globally in terms of the number of universities classified in the Times World and seventh place in the Times Ranking for Sustainable Development.