74 Iraqi Universities and Colleges in (UI Greenmetric) Ranking

Baghdad - INA 

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research  announced on, Thursday ,that 74 Iraqi universities and colleges are in UI GreenMetric rating.

A statement from the ministry received by the Iraqi News Agency(INA) stated that "the results of the classification recorded(https://greenmetric.ui.ac.id/rankings/overall-rankings-2023) evaluation of (1183 ) university institutions around the world, and Iraqi universities have been able to increase their global competitiveness to (74) institutions compared to the results of the last edition for the year 2022, which included (73) universities".

The statement added "UI Greenmetric rating is based on infrastructure criteria (15%), energy and climate change (21%), waste (18%), water (10%), Transport (18%), education and research (18%), as well as sustainability, environment, green spaces and energy consumption”.

The statement continued that "the University of Babylon topped the Iraqi universities in this ranking, where it ranked (133) globally, followed by the Universities of Anbar, Al-Mustakbal , Baghdad, Middle Euphrates technical, Basra, Nasiriyah, holy Karbala, Sumer, Al-Kafeel and Qadisiyah, down to Hamdaniya University".

The statement  pointed out that "Iraqi universities and colleges have registered their increasing competition in (Global Ranking of Academic Subjects), including the Shanghai Ranking , 2023 ,in which the University of Baghdad appeared within the specialty (Dentistry & Oral Sciences), The Times rating there are 13 universities, the QS rating  there are 5 universities, the Scimago rating there are 22 institutions, the GreenMetric in which the number of Iraqi educational institutions increased in  2023 to 74 universities and colleges , The URA  rating there are 4 Iraqi universities, in addition to the (Webometrics) classification, which recorded the attendance and competition of more than 100  Iraqi university and college".