University of Kufa

About the university

The University of Kufa (UoK) was established in 1987 with its humble beginnings of only three faculties: Medicine, Education for Girls, and Arts. In due demand, other faculties have been gradually founded, and thus the university has grown over time to include 21 faculties in various scientific, humanitarian, and academic fields. Throughout its history, the university had faced great challenges and difficulties due to sectarian issues and policies followed by the former Baathist regime, namely because it was a private university in the 1960s. Although the former regime closed the university in 1991, it subsequently resumed work by a political decree during the same year. Today, the UoK is home to 21 faculties and 102 departments, where more than 38040 students (34792 undergraduates and 3247 postgraduates) from all over Iraq are living out their academic life.