The University of Basra ( ar, جامعة البصرة ''Jāmi'at Al Basrah'') is situated in the city of

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

. For historic reasons the final ''-h'' is retained on ''Basrah'' in the name of the university. Founded in 1964 to meet the needs of southern

, the University of Basrah was at first affiliated with the

University of Baghdad The University of Baghdad (UOB) ( ar, جامعة بغداد ''Jāmi'at Baghdād'') is the largest university in Iraq, tenth largest in the Arab world, and the largest university in the Arab world outside Egypt. Nomenclature Both University ...

, but in 1964 it became an independent body. Today the University consists of fourteen colleges located on three campuses around the city of

, with research facilities and student halls of residence (dormitories). The University awards the degrees of BA,

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...

, Higher Diploma, MA, MSc and PhD.

Colleges

The university is composed of 15 colleges: * College of

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

* College of Pharmacy * College of Dentistry * College of

Veterinary Medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

College of Nursing Nurse education consists of the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. This education is provided to student nurses by experienced nurses and other med ...

* College of

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* College o
Science
* College of

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

* College of

Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...

* College of Business and

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

* College of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

* College of

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

* College of

Physical Education Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys Ed. or P.E., is a subject taught in schools around the world. It is usually taught during primary and secondary education, and encourages psychomotor learning by using a play and movement explorat ...

* College of

for Girls * College of Fine Arts

Centres

The University conducts research through the following research centres: *

Iranian Studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

Centre *

Marine Science Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dyna ...

Centre *

Polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

Studies Centre * Arabian Gulf Studies Centre *

Basrah Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is ha ...

Studies Centre * Date Palm Research Centre *

Educational Counselling A school counselor is a professional who works in primary (elementary and middle) schools or secondary schools to provide academic, career, college access/affordability/admission, and social-emotional competencies to all students through a schoo ...

Centre *

Resources Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified upon their av ...

Centre *

Teaching Methods A teaching method comprises the principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. These strategies are determined partly on subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. For a particular teaching method ...

Development Centre *

Living Language A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication (such as French and German) and dead classical languages such as ...

s Centre * Computer Centre * Continuing Educational Centre There is also the Desalination Unit (affiliated with the College of Engineering), the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

, the Haemoglobinopathy Unit, the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

Resources Centre, the Central Library, and a

Publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

Campuses

The University of Basrah consists of three campuses, they are as follows: * Northern Campus of Qarmat Ali contains the colleges of Pharmacy,

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

and

. * Southern Campus of Bab Al Zubayer contains the colleges of Business and

, Historical Studies, Fine Arts. * College of Medicine Campus contains the College of

and the

Teaching Hospital A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...

. * College of Dentistry Campus contains the College of Dentistry.

Presidents

# Dr. Abdel Hadi Mahbooba (01/04/1964 to 24/10/1968) # Dr. Sadeq Al-Khayyat (from 25/10/1968 to 03/10/1969) # Dr. Saad Abdul Baqi Al Rawi(from 04/10/1969 to 31/12/1969) # Dr. Khalil Hamid Al Talib(from 01/01/1970 to 04/04/1970) # Dr. Nizar Nadheef Al-Shawi (from 05/04/1970 to 05/09/1975) # Dr. Yousef Abdul Illah Khashab (from 05/09/1975 to 05/12/1984) # Dr. Majeed Mohammed Saeed (from 06/12/1984 to 21/03/1985) # Dr. Dakhil Hassan Jrew (from 21/03/1985 to 05/02/1993) # Dr. Akram Mohammed Sobhi (from 06/02/1993 to 30/08/2001) # Dr. Mohammed Abdul Al Al Nuaimi (from 01/09/2001 to 09/04/2003) # Dr. Salman Dawood Salman (from 01/05/2003 to 11/09/2005) # Dr. As'ad Saleem Abdulqadir (from 01/07/2004 to 1/09/2004) # Dr. Ali Abbass Alwan (from 11/09/2005 to 29/10/2009) # Dr. Salih Ismail Najim (from 01/11/2009 until 26/6/2012) # Prof. Thamer Ahmad Hamdan Al-Tamimi (from 27/6/2012) # Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hamadi (from 1/7/2019 until now)

External links

University of Basrah website
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