🇮🇶 36 federal universities · 1,263 programmes · 2026/27

Iraq's central admission — the minimum average each programme admitted.

Iraq's federal public universities admit students through the ministry's central admission, by the average in the secondary-school certificate. For 2026/27, the ministry published the lowest total and average admitted to every programme, for each stream and gender group. Here they are by university, with 2025/26 alongside where the programme is listed the same way.

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Programmes, 2026/27

1,263

987 scientific · 275 literary · 1 arts

Universities

32 universities and 4 technical universities

Medicine, 2026/27

99.67–101.29

minimum averages at the 27 colleges of medicine

Women only · men only

89 · 35

programme listings with a separate minimum for one gender

How to read these figures

Each figure is the lowest total — and the matching average, the total divided by 7 — with which a student was admitted to that programme in central admission, for that stream and gender group. It is set by that year's competition, not announced in advance: next year's can be higher or lower.

Totals can pass 700 because, for the competition, the ministry adds 8% of the mark in an additional foreign language to the student's total and an extra mark on the average for first-round graduates; enter your average with those additions.

How much minimums move: 807 programmes appear with the same wording, stream and gender in both 2025/26 and 2026/27. Between those years the scientific minimums moved by a median of 16 points (upper quartile 33.5), and 457 of 581 rose; the literary ones by a median of 35 (upper quartile 64), and 200 of 226 rose. That is why "around the minimum" is a wide band.

Programmes marked 2 years, or 2–4 years, are technical and polytechnic programmes, as their names in the file say.

The federal public universities' programmes in central admission, as the ministry's Studies, Planning and Follow-up Directorate publishes them. Private (أهلية) universities and colleges are not in the file, and neither are programmes that admit through their own tests or directly. A separate file of minimums for graduates of distinguished schools (المتميزين) is not covered.

Universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq admit students through the region's own Ministry of Higher Education and are not in this file.

These minimums are for central admission of students with the Iraqi secondary-school certificate. Non-Iraqi students are admitted separately, through the directorate's office for students from abroad, mainly on a self-funded route with its own minimum averages (for morning study in 2026/27, from 95% for medical subjects to 65% for others), paying the fees of the universities' fee-paying channel plus an annual registration fee in foreign currency.

No fees, enrolment or graduate outcomes are published per programme. Programme names stay in Arabic, as the ministry writes them.

Universities

Each university's page lists all its central-admission programmes with the minimum total, average and tie-break score. Founding years are those the ministry's student guide gives; English names are ours.

Universities

University	Founded	Programmes	Scientific · literary	Highest minimum (average)	Lowest minimum (average)
University of Baghdadجامعة بغداد	1958	61	47 · 14	101.29	62.57
Mustansiriyah Universityالجامعة المستنصرية	1963	42	29 · 13	100.24	60.00
University of Basrahجامعة البصرة	1967	42	32 · 10	99.93	63.00
University of Mosulجامعة الموصل	1967	60	44 · 16	100.66	55.00
University of Technologyالجامعة التكنولوجية	1975	50	50 · 0	98.14	76.14
Al-Nahrain Universityجامعة النهرين	1987	26	23 · 3	100.71	65.00
University of Kufaجامعة الكوفة	1987	45	32 · 13	100.86	56.43
Tikrit Universityجامعة تكريت	1987	59	41 · 18	99.71	55.00
University of Al-Qadisiyahجامعة القادسية	1987	38	28 · 10	100.00	55.00
University of Anbarجامعة الانبار	1987	39	27 · 12	99.75	55.00
Al-Iraqia Universityالجامعة العراقية	1989	30	20 · 10	100.14	60.57
University of Babylonجامعة بابل	1991	43	34 · 9	100.62	60.00
University of Diyalaجامعة ديالى	1998	41	29 · 12	100.00	59.86
University of Kerbalaجامعة كربلاء	2002	30	24 · 6	100.79	57.86
University of Thi-Qarجامعة ذي قار	2002	37	28 · 9	100.14	55.00
University of Kirkukجامعة كركوك	2003	39	28 · 11	99.79	55.00
Wasit Universityجامعة واسط	2003	34	23 · 11	100.00	55.14
University of Misanجامعة ميسان	2007	32	23 · 9	99.81	57.43
Al-Muthanna Universityجامعة المثنى	2007	30	24 · 6	99.86	55.00
University of Samarraجامعة سامراء	2014	18	12 · 6	97.00	55.00
University of Sumerجامعة سومر	2014	18	13 · 5	99.77	55.00
Al-Qasim Green Universityجامعة القاسم الخضراء	2014	13	11 · 2	93.57	57.29
Ninevah Universityجامعة نينوى	2014	16	13 · 3	99.78	70.00
University of Fallujahجامعة الفلوجة	2014	16	11 · 5	100.00	60.00
Jabir ibn Hayyan University for Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciencesجامعة جابر بن حيان للعلوم الطبية والصيدلانية	2014	4	4 · 0	100.14	87.14
University of Tal Afarجامعة تلعفر	2014	10	7 · 3	95.00	56.00
Basrah University for Oil and Gasجامعة البصرة للنفط والغاز	2014	11	7 · 4	98.29	80.00
University of Al-Hamdaniyaجامعة الحمدانية	2014	11	7 · 4	83.43	65.00
University of Information Technology and Communicationsجامعة تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات	2014	4	4 · 0	88.57	72.43
Al-Karkh University of Scienceجامعة الكرخ للعلوم	2014	10	8 · 2	93.57	65.14
Ibn Sina University of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciencesجامعة ابن سينا للعلوم الطبية والصيدلانية	2014	2	2 · 0	100.00	99.00
University of Shatrahجامعة الشطرة	2023	17	13 · 4	91.71	60.29

Technical universities

They run technical colleges and institutes, including the two-year and two-to-four-year programmes.

University	Founded	Programmes	Scientific · literary	Highest minimum (average)	Lowest minimum (average)
Northern Technical Universityالجامعة التقنية الشمالية	2014	89	79 · 10	95.14	50.00
Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical Universityجامعة الفرات الاوسط التقنية	2014	87	74 · 13	95.29	50.00
Southern Technical Universityالجامعة التقنية الجنوبية	2014	62	55 · 7	97.43	50.00
Middle Technical Universityالجامعة التقنية الوسطى	2014	97	81 · 15 · 1 arts	97.14	50.00

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Source: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Iraq), Studies, Planning and Follow-up Directorate — central-admission minimums (الحدود الدنيا للقبول المركزي) for 2026/2027, and for 2025/2026 as kept by the Internet Archive; founding years and websites from the ministry's student guide for 2026/2027. Read 12 November 2026. Figures re-keyed; English names, grouping and comparisons are ours. Not endorsed by the ministry.