Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced on seventy-three public and private Iraqi universities and colleges obtained competitive scores in the new version of the (UI GreenMetric) ranking for 2022.

Higher Education reviewed the results of this year’s edition (https://greenmetric.ui.ac.id/rankings/overall-rankings-2022) that highlighted evaluation of one thousand and fifty university educational institutions from 85 countries around the world and Iraqi universities were able to increase their scores and global competition to seventy-three institutions compared to the results of the last edition of 2021, which included only sixty-six universities.

Higher Education demonstrated that the UI Greenmetric ranking is based on infrastructure criteria by (15%), energy and climate change by (21%), waste by (18%), water (10%), transportation by (18%) and education and research by (18%), as well ad sustainability, environment, green spaces, consumption and energy.

Higher Education also reviewed that Iraqi universities and colleges scored their increasing competition in international rankings, including the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, in which the University of Baghdad was scored within the chemical engineering specialty, (The Times) ranking, in which eight universities were scored, and (QS) rankikng in which five universities were scored, (Scimago) ranking, in which twenty-two institutions were scored, (Greenmetric) ranking, in which seventy-three Iraqi universities and colleges were scored and URA ranking in which four Iraqi universities were scored, as well as (Webometrics) ranking in which eighty-nine Iraqi universities and colleges were scored.

It is worth mentioning that the University of Anbar topped the Iraqi universities in the ranking and scored 146 internationally.