The University of Basrah ranked first and second in the Oscars for Higher Education in Asia, and it is the only university in Iraq that achieves these ranks.
The University of Basrah ranked first in the project to rehabilitate prisoners to integrate them into society after completing their detention period through workshops and courses, as well as completing their studies. In the Empowerment project for (youth, the needy, the elderly, and creative people) it ranked second place.
The President of Basrah University, Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, stated that one of the university’s goals is to enable the younger generations to own and employ knowledge in the best possible way, as well as to enable researchers to find sustainable solutions to the challenges facing society, as well as to develop the scientific capacity to obtain solutions for sustainable production and consumption, and finally, the participation of all national and international institutions and NGOs to share knowledge.
It is worth mentioning that the University of Basrah ranked first among Iraqi universities in the Times classification to achieve the goals of sustainable development for the United Nations 2021, and received the first Asian prize for higher education for creativity and arts through the Smile of a Child project. The University of Basrah also has a set of purposeful projects, as well as a series of laboratories, productive fields and research centers in which specialized research teams work.
