The University of Basrah was selected among the top 100 international universities in three axes, according to the World University Ranking Innovation.
The University of Basrah ranked 51-100 globally in three axes, which are the industrial applications axis, the intellectual growth for students axis, and the crisis management axis.
It is worth mentioning that the World Universities with Real Impact (WURI) classification is a classification that measures the contributions of global universities with real impacts on society and highlights the creative and innovative methods of university research and educational programs based on six axes, which are the axis of industrial applications, which measures the ability of the university to apply research of a manufacturing nature on the traditional methods of preparing research papers and teaching the type of lectures and the axis of emerging companies and entrepreneurship achieved to serve the community instead of the traditional focus on the number of occupied jobs as well as the axis of social responsibility, ethics and integrity instead of focusing on knowledge and skills only for the sake of material success. As well as, the axis of intellectual growth of students and their openness to exchange and cooperation between colleges and across national borders instead of the isolated university system, the axis of crisis management in the midst of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and other global and local crises, and finally the axis of establishing the fourth industrial revolution through digital technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud services, blockchain, etc.
