Selection of the University of Basrah among the first 100 international universities in the classification of innovation (WURI)
The University of Basrah was selected among the first 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 axis for students, and the crisis management axis.
It is noteworthy that the World Universities with Real Impact (WURI) classification is a classification that measures the contributions of international 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 industrial applications axis, which measures the university’s ability to apply industrial research. 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 and the axis of intellectual growth for students and their openness to exchange and cooperation between colleges and across national borders instead of the isolated university system as well as the axis of crisis management in the midst of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic- and other global and local crises and finally the axis of creating the fourth industrial revolution through digital technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud services, blockchain, etc.