University of Baghdad

University of Baghdad
The University of Baghdad (UOB) (also known as Baghdad University) is a public research university in Baghdad, Iraq. It is the largest university in Iraq and the tenth largest university in the Arab world.
History
The College of Islamic Sciences claims that it originated in 1067 A.D. as Abu-Haneefa. However, the College of Law, the earliest of the modern institutions that were to become the first constituent Colleges (i.e. Faculties) of the University of Baghdad, was founded in 1908.
The College of Engineering was established in 1921; the Higher Teachers Training College and the Lower College of Education in 1923, the College of Medicine in 1927, and the College of Pharmacy in 1936. In 1942, the first higher institution for girls, Queen Alia College, was established. In 1943, proposals for further new Colleges appeared, leading to the foundation of the College of Arts and the College of Science in 1949, and Abu Ghraib College of Agriculture in 1950.
The university building was commissioned by the Royal Government of Iraq in the late 1950s and is located on the banks of the Tigris River. Its buildings were designed by Walter Gropius, Louis McMillen, and Robert McMillan, of The Architects' Collaborative, and were made from 1959 to 1960. The architects master plan for a new university campus, included the Schools of Engineering, Science, and Liberal Arts, for a total of 6,800 students.
The campus was expanded in 1982 to accommodate 20,000 students. Architects Hisham N. Ashkouri and Robert Owen developed the academic spaces program for the entire campus.
Baghdad University suffered badly from the occupation in Iraq, started in 2003, with more than 90% of its students dropping out of some classes.
In September 2018, the university was listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, a yearly classification of the best 1,250 universities in the world, for the first time.
Presidents
Dr. Matti Aqrawi — 5 October 1957 – 1 August 1958
Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah — 19 March 1959 – 8 March 1963
Dr. Abed Al-Azeez Al-Duri — 10 February 1963 – 27 November 1965 and 10 September 1966 – 7 August 1968
Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Kallaf — 9 September 1968 – 8 August 1970
Dr. Abed Allatif Al-Badry — 8 August 1970 – 1 March 1971
Dr. Saad Abed Al-Bakki Al-Rawi — 15 June 1971 – 23 January 1974
Dr. Taha Ibrahim Al-Abdalla — 14 March 1974 – 15 October 1977
Dr. Sulttan Abed Al-Kader Al-Shawi — 18 October 1977 – 1 March 1978
Dr. Taha Tayh Diab Al-Ne'ami — 30 June 1980 – 27 December 1990
Dr. Adil Shakir Al-Tai — 10 July 1990 – 28 February 1991
Dr. Khidir Jasim Al-Duri — 1 March 1991 – 10 November 1993
Dr. Abed Al-Iillah Yossif Al-Kashab — 14 November 1993 – 7 June 2001
Dr. Mohammad Abed Allah Falah Al-Rawi — 12 June 2001 – 30 April 2003
Dr. Sammi Abed Al-Mahdi Al-Mudaffar — 24 May 2003 – 28 September 2003
Dr. Musa Juwad Aziz Al-Musawi — 28 September 2003 – 20 November 2012
Dr. Alaa Abdulrasool Alkashwan — 20 November 2012 – 13 May 2019
Dr. Qusi Alsuhil — 13 May 2019
Dr. Nabeel Alsahib — 22 July 2020
Campuses
Al-Jadriya campus
College of Engineering
Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering
College of Science
College of Political Science
College of Physical Education
College of Science for Women
College of Education for Women
Institute of Laser for Postgraduate Studies
Institute of Urban and Regional Planning
Institute of Genetic Engineering
Institute of Accounting & Financial Studies
College of Agricultural
Bab Al-Muadham campus
College of Medicine
College of Dentistry
College of Pharmacy
College of Nursing
College of Education – Ibn Rushd
College of Arts
College of Languages
College of Information
College of Islamic Sciences
Al-Waziriya campus
College of Physical Education for Women
College of Law
College of Administration, Business and Economy
College of Education – Ibn Al-Haytham
College of Fine Arts
College of Veterinary
Nahda CrossRoad
Al-Kindi College of Medicine
Notable alumni
Mohammed Alkobaisi – Islamic scholar
Hisham N. Ashkouri – architect
Serwan Baban – Minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government
Venus Faiq (born 1963), Iraqi-Kurd Dutch writer, journalist, and poet.
Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz – former Prime Minister of Iraq
Muzaffar Al-Nawab – Iraqi poet and writer
Emad Zaki Yehya – international petroleum consultant and former president of Reservoir Engineering in the Ministry of Oil
Saadoun al-Dulaimi – former Iraqi Defense Minister
Ghanim Al-Jumaily – Professor of Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University; former Ambassador of Iraq to Saudi Arabia
Ghassan Muhsen – diplomat and artist
Ahmad Obeidat – former Prime Minister of Jordan
Sinan Al Shabibi – former Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq
Rihab Taha – biological weapons chief
Jalal Talabani – former President of Iraq
Abdurrahman Wahid – former President of Indonesia
Donny George Youkhanna – archaeologist
Muntadhar al-Zaidi – journalist
Hashim Jasin – spiritual leader (Shura Council) of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party
Suad Jawad – "The Queen of Dubbing"
Aqeel al-Mosawi – dentist, novelist, and photographer
Hazim Abdallah Khedr - historian and researcher specialized in Andalusian Arabic literature.
Notable development consultants
Cyril Saunders, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1952–1955
Harold Bonny, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1957–1958
Donald Powell (University of Arizona), USAID/ICA Library Development consultant at Abu Ghraib College, 1957
William S. Dix (Librarian, University of Princeton), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1958
Des Raj Kalia, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1959–1960
Stephen Ford (University of Michigan) and Paul Kebabian (New York Public Library), Ford Foundation Library Development consultants, 1961–1962.
Rudolph Gjelsness (Professor and Head of the Department of Library Science, University of Michigan), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1962–1963
David T. Wilder (University Librarian, University of Michigan – Oakland), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1965–66
Anand P. Srivastava (Head of the Department of Library Science, University of Rajasthan), UNESCO consultant, Graduate School of Library Science, 1968–1973
Khalil M. H. Al-Shamma', Former Dean, College of Administration, Business and Economy, Reorganization of the University of Baghdad and The Higher Education sector, 1969, Donated his rich personal library with its complete furniture to the Central Library of the University of Baghdad /Al-Jadriya Campus 2012.
See also
List of Islamic educational institutions
College of Science – University of Baghdad
Iraqi Journal of Physics
List of universities in Iraq
References
External links
Official website
University of Baghdad Website
Baghdad
Education in Baghdad
Universities and colleges established in 1957
1957 establishments in Iraq
Walter Gropius buildings