University of Mosul

 

 

      The beginning of University of Mosul dates back to the year 1959, the year in which the college of Medicine started its first academic year. The actual appearance of Mosul University as an educational institute based on the ground backs to 1967, the day in which the order No.14 was  issued by the government for establishing  the Iraqi University  (University of Mosul ). The University of Mosul has expanded over the years, it  includes twenty colleges , (7) research centers , (6) consulting institutions , five clinics and hospitals, six museums , a number of directorates, and substantive and administrative units, The University of Mosul  achieved the goals of higher education in Iraq by the preparation of national staffs qualified scientifically in a hundred scientific discipline and support scientific research and community service .. At the level of preparation of cadres of Mosul University awarded bachelor's degrees and Higher Diploma and Professional Diploma, Masters and Ph.D. in scientific discipline hundred distributors in the interdisciplinary fields of various departments at the university .. It also follows university graduates yet employed in government departments through the successive sessions of the continuing education program, which aims at re-graduates and updating information by teaching them according to the latest scientific methods.


At the level of supporting of scientific research requirement,  the University put  a system connected to the research to qualify generations to advance scientifically and to stand in the front rows of the scene of this science, patents, and provide all what is new .. At the level of community service the university provides services to the university environment across various  means including the experiences of practice in the field transmitted by the scientific teams composed of university students and professors to the villages and regions


These teams provide consulting services and treatment for people in the areas of health, agricultural, scientific, and various social aspects. It assesses these experiences in the summer every year since 1988.Aditionally it assesses the experiences of competitions of creative Arts in more than thirty activities  aims at embracing  the talents of students and provides dentistry service to the schools in the area of Nineveh province. The university participate in the  encyclopedic arena by issuing Encyclopedia of Mosul civilization in five volumes and preparing to issue another one related to Iraq   civilization in more than twenty volumes, and the University's role in the dissemination of the Arabian creative heritage by introducing the first edition of the book (( Aqd al Joman in the poets of this time)) for the Arabian author Ibn Alshaar al Musli.. The university issued the first astronomical Arabic calendar  since the Abbasid era and one of the four most important calendars and issued parts of the calendar since the year 2000 the estimated area of the first position of the University of Mosul, with 52.85 hectares be added to it a total area of agriculture, forestry, amounting to 41.01 hectares and the estimated area of the University Centre II amounting to 2296 hectares, including the houses of the teachers.