Baghdad University

The University of Baghdad is a university in Baghdad, Iraq, with its presidency in the Al-Jadriya district. According to the university, it was founded in 1908 and is the oldest university in Iraq and the second largest in the Middle East; its early faculties included Law (1908), Engineering and Medicine (1921) and the High Teachers' House, later the Faculty of Education (1923). Today it is a system of science and humanities colleges, institutes and research centres serving undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Its colleges cover a wide range of fields, among them:

• Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and veterinary medicine
• Engineering and the sciences
• Law, political science, media, administration and economics
• Languages, arts, fine arts and education
• Undergraduate colleges of Excellence and of Artificial Intelligence

Postgraduate study is also offered through specialised institutes, such as the Institute of Laser for Postgraduate Studies and the Postgraduate Institute for Accounting and Financial Studies. The university publishes medical, scientific and humanities journals, runs a digital research repository and an e-learning centre, and states that it seeks international partnerships. It ranked 215th worldwide in the 2026 Sustainable Universities Ranking, as reported on its website.