Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced that the QS World University Rankings by subject announced the results of its 2024 edition.
Higher Education demonstrated that the Ranking website (https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings) reviewed universities according to academic specializations, which amounted to fifty-five subjects in light of indicators related to academic reputation, employer reputation, the impact of faculty members research and international research cooperation, while the results of the ranking included 1,559 subjects’ institution of this year out of 4,989 universities whose data was analyzed.
Higher Education highlighted that the University of Baghdad obtained top scores in the following specializations:
▪ Engineering-Petroleum (101-150)
▪ Engineering-Mechanical (301-350)
▪ Engineering-Chemical (351-400)
▪ Engineering and Technology (344)
▪ Engineering-Electrical and Electronic (351-400)
▪ Computer Science and Information Systems (551-600)
▪ Medicine (551-600)
Higher Education added that this edition of the ranking indicated remarkable progress in the competitive ranks of the specialized faculties of the University of Baghdad, especially engineering and medicine, which engaged in significant competition within the environment of specializations around the world.
It is worth to be mentioned that Iraq obtained the score 37th globally for the 13 universities obtained top scores in The Times Ranking, while Iraqi universities and colleges witnessed increasing competition in other Global Ranking, including the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for 2023, in which University of Baghdad is included in the specialty (Dentistry & Oral Sciences), (QS) Ranking, in which there are five universities obtained top scores, the (Scimago) Ranking, in which there are forty-seven institutions obtained top scores, the (Greenmetric) Ranking, in which the number of Iraqi educational institutions has increased to seventy-four universities and colleges and the RUR Ranking, in which there are forty five Iraqi universities obtained top scores, as well as Webometrics Ranking, in which a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges obtained top scores.
