Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research reviewed that QS World Ranking announced the results of its version for universities in the Arab region (QS Arab Region University Rankings 2025) in which twenty-five Iraqi universities achieved positive competitive ranks.

Higher Education highlighted global ranking (https://www.topuniversities.com/arab-region-university-rankings?countries=iq) reviewed that (246) institutions in the Arab region competed according to the indicators of academic reputation by (30%), the institution's reputation with employers by (20%), the ratio of faculty members to students by (15%), the international research network by (10%), the web impact by (5%), the ratio of faculty members with a doctorate by (5%), citations per research by (5%), the number of researches per faculty by (5%), the ratio of international faculty members by (2.5%) and the ratio of international students by (2.5%).

The Higher Education also reviewed a significant increase in the number of competing Iraqi universities to twenty-five compared to last year's edition, which witnessed only eighteen universities competing, while the University of Baghdad ranked thirty-eighth in this edition, followed by Mustansiriyah, Basrah, Al-Nahrain, Kufa, Babylon, Technology, Anbar, Karbala, Mosul, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical, Nineveh, Tikrit, Diyala, Al-Qadisiyah, Islamic, Wasit, Al-Iraqia, Muthanna, Middle Technical, Northern Technical, Southern Technical, Fallujah, Kirkuk and Thi-Qar Universities.

it is worth to be mentioned that more than a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges competed with their counterparts in eight global rankings, which made Iraq rank 29th globally in terms of the number of universities ranked in the Times World and seventh globally in The Times Sustainable Development Ranking.