The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced on sixty-two Iraqi universities and colleges have registered competitive positions in the Times Sustainable Development Rankings for the year 2024.

Higher Education reviewed that the official website (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings...) highlighted an increase in the number of Iraqi universities and colleges that kept their score in the Times Sustainable Development Ranking to 62 universities, after it was 53 in the previous edition, topped by the University of Basrah, in which obtained the score ( 401-600) globally and the Universities of the Al-Mustaqbal in which obtained the score (601-800), Baghdad in which obtained the score (601-800), Babylon in which obtained the score (801-1000) and Kufa in which obtained the score (801-1000).

Higher Education also reviewed that the British Times Sustainable Development Ranking evaluates (2,152) universities from 125  countries by achieving a number of United Nations goals out of 17 goals, including quality of education, health, well-being, partnerships, industry and innovation.

It is worth to be mentioned that Iraq obtained the score 37th worldly after 13 universities obtained competitive scores in (The Times) Ranking, Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects for2023, in which University of Baghdad obtained top score in the specialty (Dentistry & Oral Sciences), Scimago Ranking, in which forty-seven institutions obtained top score, Greenmetric Ranking, in which the number of Iraqi educational institutions has increased to seventy-four universities and colleges obtained top score, RUR Ranking, in which there are forty-five Iraqi universities obtained top score and Webometrics Ranking is added to it, in which more than a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges obtained top score.