Mustansiriyah University

Mustansiriyah University, also rendered Al-Mustansiriya University, is a public university on the left bank of the Tigris in Baghdad, Iraq, whose name derives from the Mustansiriya Madrasah founded by an Abbasid caliph, and its colleges are today distributed across several districts of Baghdad.穆斯坦西里亚大学又译穆斯坦西里耶大学，是伊拉克巴格达底格里斯河左岸的一所公立大学，其校名源自一位阿拔斯哈里发创办的穆斯坦西里亚书院，其各学院今分布于巴格达多个城区。

The modern university was established in 1963 with the help and financial support of the Iraqi Teachers' Union, became a semi-state institution in 1964, and was designated an independent university in 1968.现代意义的该校于 1963 年在伊拉克教师工会的帮助与资助下成立，1964 年取得半官方地位，并于 1968 年被定为独立大学。

It teaches through 12 colleges and 5 centres, was placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, and recorded 27,837 works with 216,488 citations in OpenAlex, a measure of its weight among Iraq's public universities.该校通过 12 个学院与 5 个中心开展教学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 1001-1200 位，据 OpenAlex 记载有 27837 篇文献与 216488 次被引，这一数字体现出它在伊拉克公立大学中的分量。

History

• The institution traces its origin to the Mustansiriya Madrasah, established in 1227 by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir and counted among the oldest universities in the world, one of the earliest centres of higher learning in the Islamic world.该校的源头可溯至 1227 年由阿拔斯哈里发穆斯坦绥尔创办的穆斯坦西里亚书院，该书院被列为世界上最古老的大学之一，也是伊斯兰世界最早的高等学府之一。

• Some accounts place the founding of the madrasah in 1232 or 1234 rather than 1227, and it stood in the centre of Baghdad.关于该书院创办年代亦有 1232 年或 1234 年之说，其址位于巴格达市中心。

• The madrasah taught Islamic jurisprudence according to the four schools and produced graduates who served the Abbasid state, making it one of the most important scientific monuments of the era.该书院按四大教法学派讲授伊斯兰教法，培养服务于阿拔斯王朝的学人，是当时最重要的学术地标之一。

• Its building on the left bank of the Tigris survived the Mongol invasion of 1258 and has since been restored, and it remains the emblem of the modern university, standing on the same bank as the campus that grew up beside it.其底格里斯河左岸的建筑在 1258 年蒙古入侵中幸存并得以修复，至今仍是这所现代大学的标志，与在其身旁发展起来的校园同处一岸。

• The modern Mustansiriyah University was established in 1963 with the help and financial support of the Teachers' Union of the Republic of Iraq, mainly providing evening courses for students already in employment in the capital.现代的穆斯坦西里亚大学于 1963 年在伊拉克共和国教师工会的帮助与资助下成立，起初主要面向首都已有工作的学生开设夜间课程。

• In 1964 the university was given the status of a semi-state institution with some state financial support, and it absorbed Al-Shahab University, a private institution founded by the Iraqi Association of Economists.1964 年该校取得半官方机构地位并获得部分国家资助，并合并了由伊拉克经济学家协会创办的私立沙哈布大学。

• After that absorption it moved to a new campus to the north of the city centre, and it initially also managed colleges in Mosul and Basra.合并之后该校迁往市中心以北的新校区，起初还管辖摩苏尔与巴士拉两地的学院。

• In 1966 a law was passed under which private universities were converted into public ones, and Mustansiriyah thus became, briefly, a college within Baghdad University.1966 年通过的一项法律把私立大学转为公立大学，穆斯坦西里亚因此一度成为巴格达大学下属的一个学院。

• A major reorganisation of higher education was initiated in 1967 with the intention that by 1969 all previous institutions would be abolished and reconstituted, a process that reshaped Baghdad's universities into separate institutions.1967 年启动了高等教育的重大重组，其意图是到 1969 年废止并重构此前所有相关机构，这一进程把巴格达的各高校重组为相互独立的院校。

• Mustansiriyah was designated a separate university in 1968, and its branch campuses were detached to form part of Mosul University and Basra University, which grew into the principal universities of northern and southern Iraq.该校于 1968 年被定为独立大学，其分校则被拆分，分别并入摩苏尔大学与巴士拉大学，后两者发展为伊拉克北部与南部的主要大学。

• The College of Medicine was created in 1975, the fourth pillar on which the university's structure rested, and admitted its first cohort of 96 students in the academic year 1975/1976, making it the second-oldest medical school in the capital.医学院于 1975 年创建，是该校建制所依托的第四根支柱，并在 1975 至 1976 学年录取首批 96 名学生，成为首都第二悠久的医学院。

• The College of Medicine is one of four medical schools in Baghdad and the second to be established, after the medical college of Baghdad University.医学院是巴格达四所医学院之一，也是继巴格达大学医学院之后第二所设立的医学院。

• The College of Dentistry, the second dental school in Baghdad, was established by Dr. Ahmad M. Ismail and is attached to Al-Karama Teaching Hospital.牙科学院为巴格达第二所牙科院校，由艾哈迈德·M·伊斯梅尔博士创办，附属于卡拉马教学医院。

• The College of Medicine is based outside the main campus and is attached to Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital and the National Center of Hematology.医学院设于主校区之外，附属于雅尔穆克教学医院与全国血液学中心。

• By the 2020s the university's teaching was carried out through 12 colleges and 5 centres, three of which are medical.到 2020 年代，该校的教学由 12 个学院与 5 个中心承担，其中 3 个为中心医疗性质。

• Alongside its degree colleges the university runs five centres, three of them medical, which carry much of its research and postgraduate activity and link the faculties to its hospitals.除学位学院外，该校还设有五个中心，其中三个为医学中心，承担了其大部分科研与研究生工作，并把各学院与其医院相连接。

• In 2022 the university recorded its highest QS standing to date, second among Iraqi universities and 710th in the Arab region.2022 年该校取得迄今最好的 QS 成绩，在伊拉克高校中位列第二、在阿拉伯地区列第 710 位。

• Webometrics placed it 2,232nd globally and third in Iraq in its January 2024 edition, and the Round University Ranking put it 796th globally in 2025.Webometrics 2024 年 1 月版将其列为全球第 2232 位、伊拉克第 3 位，世界大学排名中心 RUR 则于 2025 年将其列为全球第 796 位。

• In 2024 Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research recognised Mustansiriyah among the leading public universities in its national institutional ranking.2024 年伊拉克高等教育与科学研究部在其全国院校排名中将穆斯坦西里亚列为领先的公立大学之一。

• For the 2024-2025 academic year the university took second place across Iraqi universities in the ministry's official assessment of student activities in sport, art, culture and scouting.2024 至 2025 学年，该校在教育部对体育、艺术、文化与童子军等学生活动的官方评估中位居伊拉克各大学第二。

• The university climbed 62 places globally in the 2026 UI GreenMetric ranking for green and sustainable universities.该校在 2026 年 UI GreenMetric 绿色与可持续大学排名中全球名次上升 62 位。

Academics

• Mustansiriyah University teaches through 12 colleges and 5 centres, three of the centres being medical units.穆斯坦西里亚大学通过 12 个学院与 5 个中心开展教学，其中 3 个中心为医学机构。

• Its colleges are Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineering, Science, Law, Arts, Education, Management and Economy, Political Science, Basic Education, Physical Education, Nursing and Touristic Sciences, a grouping that spans the four pillars of medicine, engineering, science and the humanities within one institution.其学院包括医学院、牙科学院、药学院、工程学院、理学院、法学院、文学院、教育学院、管理与经济学院、政治科学学院、基础教育学院、体育学院、护理学院与旅游科学学院，这一组合使其在一所机构内覆盖医学、工程、理学与人文四根支柱。

• The College of Medicine, founded in 1975, admitted 96 students in its first year and has since become one of the four medical schools of Baghdad.医学院创办于 1975 年，首届录取 96 名学生，此后成为巴格达四所医学院之一。

• The College of Dentistry was established by Dr. Ahmad M. Ismail as the second dental school in Baghdad, after the dental college of Baghdad University.牙科学院由艾哈迈德·M·伊斯梅尔博士创办，是继巴格达大学牙科学院之后巴格达第二所牙科院校。

• Teaching is divided between morning and evening studies, and admission lists for the two tracks are published separately each year, a structure that dates from the university's origins as an evening-course institution.教学分为上午与夜间两轨，两条轨道的录取名单每年分别公布，这一结构可溯至该校最初作为夜间课程机构时的渊源。

• Among the university's research units are the Information Technology Centre and the Al-Mustansiriyah National Centre for Blood Diseases Research and Treatment.该校的科研单位包括信息技术中心与穆斯坦西里亚全国血液病研究与治疗中心。

• The Faculty of Engineering sits at Al-Bab Al-Muadham in Baghdad, with a postal address of P.O. Box 46049.工程学院位于巴格达的巴布穆阿达姆区，通信处为 46049 号信箱。

• The university operates under the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq, which authorises its degrees and approves its admission numbers and new programmes.该校隶属伊拉克高等教育与科学研究部，其学位由该部授权颁发，招生名额与新设项目亦由该部核准。

• The College of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy complete the medical group alongside Medicine and Dentistry, training health professionals with the two clinical colleges.护理学院与药学院同医学院、牙科学院一道构成该校的医学板块，与两个临床学院共同培养卫生专业人才。

• The College of Political Science and the College of Basic Education are among the newer additions to the university's faculty list.政治科学学院与基础教育学院是该校学院名单中较晚增设者。

• The College of Physical Education and the College of Touristic Sciences give the university a sport and a tourism specialism within the humanities group.体育学院与旅游科学学院使该校在人文板块中具备体育与旅游两个专门方向。

• The university's scientific group comprises Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineering, Science and Nursing, which account for most of its laboratory-based teaching.其理科板块由医学、牙科、药学、工程、理学与护理等学院组成，承担了该校大部分实验教学。

• The humanities group comprises Law, Arts, Education, Management and Economy, Political Science, Basic Education, Physical Education and Touristic Sciences.其人文板块由法学、文学、教育、管理与经济、政治科学、基础教育、体育与旅游科学等学院组成。

• Each college runs its own lecture programme, and the university publishes semester timetables college by college, so that teaching is administered faculty by faculty rather than centrally.各学院分别安排自己的课程，该校亦按学院逐一公布学期课程表，教学因此以学院为单位而非集中管理。

• Senior appointments follow ministry rules, and the dean of the College of Medicine is currently Dr. Ghassan Ali Mohsen Al-Qazwini.高级教职的任命依教育部规章办理，医学院现任院长为加桑·阿里·穆赫辛·卡兹维尼博士。

• Research and postgraduate work is channelled through the centres, which also handle the university's publishing and technology transfer, giving the five units a role across all the colleges.科研与研究生工作经各中心统筹，这些中心同时承担该校的出版与技术转移事务，使这五个单位在各学院间都发挥作用。

Campus

• The main complex stands at Al-Bab Al-Muadham in Baghdad, on the left bank of the Tigris, close to the city centre and a short distance from the riverfront where the historic madrasah stands.主校区位于巴格达的巴布穆阿达姆区、底格里斯河左岸，靠近市中心，距矗立着历史书院的河岸不远。

• The complex contains the buildings of the university presidency and its administrative, scientific and service units, including registration and student affairs, financial affairs and restaurants.该校区包含大学校部及行政、学术与服务单位的建筑，其中有注册与学生事务、财务事务以及餐厅。

• Open grounds and pitches for football, volleyball, basketball and tennis lie within the campus and support the university's sporting and inter-university competition programme.校园内设有足球、排球、篮球与网球等露天场地，支撑该校的体育与校际竞赛安排。

• Six residential complexes house students, among them the Al-Handasah complex inside the College of Engineering, reserved for its female students.校园设有六处学生宿舍区，其中包括工程学院内、专供该院女生的汉达萨宿舍区，房源按学院与性别分配。

• The Al-Handasah complex contains two buildings, one for initial studies covering 550 square metres and one for postgraduate studies covering 220 square metres, with forty rooms in all.汉达萨宿舍区含两栋楼，一栋用于本科阶段、面积 550 平方米，另一栋用于研究生阶段、面积 220 平方米，共计 40 个房间。

• Not all colleges sit on the main site, since the College of Medicine and the College of Dentistry are attached to teaching hospitals elsewhere in Baghdad.并非所有学院都设在主校区，医学院与牙科学院分别附属于巴格达其他地区的教学医院。

• The restored Mustansiriya Madrasah on the Tigris bank remains part of the university's identity, standing near the main campus that grew up beside it and recalling its medieval origins.底格里斯河畔经修复的穆斯坦西里亚书院仍是该校标识的一部分，就矗立在随其发展起来的主校区附近，令人想起其中世纪的起源。

• The campus is reached through the Al-Bab Al-Muadham district on the eastern side of the city, a short distance from the Tigris bridges that link central Baghdad and the surrounding colleges.校园经该市东侧的巴布穆阿达姆区抵达，距连接巴格达市中心与周边各学院的底格里斯河各桥不远。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Mustansiriyah is placed in the 1001-1200 band, the joint interval position shared by the universities in that group.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，穆斯坦西里亚列于第 1001-1200 位，即该组院校并列的名次区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1801-2000 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列于第 1801-2000 位。

• It does not appear in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, so no position on that table is recorded for it here.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名，故本条目不记载其该榜名次。

• Nor does it appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, the ARWU.该校亦未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

• In the 2022 QS table it ranked second among Iraqi universities and 710th in the Arab region, its highest recorded placing, and recent editions of the world table have kept it inside the 1001-1200 band.在 2022 年 QS 榜中，该校位列伊拉克高校第二、阿拉伯地区第 710 位，为其有记录的最好名次，近年来世界榜的各版本也一直把它保持在 1001-1200 区间内。

• Webometrics placed it 2,232nd globally and third in Iraq in January 2024, while the Round University Ranking put it 796th globally in 2025.Webometrics 于 2024 年 1 月将其列为全球第 2232 位、伊拉克第 3 位，RUR 则于 2025 年将其列为全球第 796 位。

• Iraq's national institutional ranking recognised it among the country's leading public universities in 2024, and its student activities placed second nationally in 2024-2025.伊拉克全国院校排名于 2024 年将其列为国内领先的公立大学之一，其学生活动在 2024 至 2025 学年位列全国第二。

• The university climbed 62 places in the 2026 UI GreenMetric ranking for green and sustainable universities.该校在 2026 年 UI GreenMetric 绿色与可持续大学排名中名次上升 62 位。

• Its measurable research output as recorded by OpenAlex is 27,837 works with 216,488 citations, an average of about 7.8 citations per work and a volume built on its medical, engineering and scientific colleges.据 OpenAlex 记载，其可量化科研产出为 27837 篇文献与 216488 次被引，平均每篇约 7.8 次，这一体量建立在其医学、工程与理科学院之上。

• Within Iraq it sits among public universities such as Tikrit University, Kufa University and Anbar University, all of which appear in international tables of varying coverage.在伊拉克国内，该校与提克里特大学、库法大学、安巴尔大学等公立大学同列，这些院校在不同覆盖范围的国际榜单中亦有出现。

Student life

• Student activities at Mustansiriyah placed second among Iraqi universities in the ministry's official assessment for 2024-2025, covering sport, art, culture and scouting.在教育部 2024 至 2025 学年的官方评估中，穆斯坦西里亚的学生活动在伊拉克各大学中位列第二，涵盖体育、艺术、文化与童子军等类别。

• Six residential complexes on and around the campus accommodate students, with the Al-Handasah complex reserved for women in the Faculty of Engineering.校园内外的六处宿舍区安置学生，其中汉达萨宿舍区专供工程学院女生使用。

• Football, volleyball, basketball and tennis grounds give the campus an active sporting calendar, organised alongside the physical education college.足球、排球、篮球与网球场地为校园提供了丰富的体育日程，相关活动与体育学院协同组织。

• Dining facilities sit within the main complex, and the campus also provides registration and financial services for students in the same area, while the six residences are allocated through the dean of students' office.餐饮设施设于主校区内，校园在同一区域还为学生提供注册与财务服务，六处宿舍则经由学生事务部门分配。

• Evening studies allow students in employment to take degrees, and admission to the two tracks is administered separately each year.夜间学习使在职学生也能攻读学位，两条轨道的招生工作每年分别管理。

• The restored Mustansiriya Madrasah gives campus life an inherited heritage, linking present-day students to the institution's medieval origins.经修复的穆斯坦西里亚书院为校园生活带来承续的遗产，把今日学生与这所机构的中世纪起源相连。

• Campus life is concentrated at Al-Bab Al-Muadham, a district of eastern Baghdad within easy reach of the bridges over the Tigris.校园生活集中于巴布穆阿达姆，这是巴格达东部的一个城区，紧邻底格里斯河上的各座桥梁。

• Because its colleges are spread across Baghdad, student life is organised at faculty level, with residences and dining grouped around the colleges that a student belongs to.由于各学院散布于巴格达各地，学生生活以学院为单位组织，宿舍与餐饮也围绕学生所属的学院分布。

• Study is organised by college, and each faculty publishes its own semester timetable and examination schedule for the two study tracks.教学按学院组织，各学院分别公布两条学习轨道的学期课程与考试安排。

Notable people

• Al-Mustansir, the Abbasid caliph, founded the Mustansiriya Madrasah in 1227, the institution from which the modern university takes its name and site.阿拔斯哈里发穆斯坦绥尔于 1227 年创办穆斯坦西里亚书院，这所机构即现代大学校名与校址的由来。

• Dr. Ahmad M. Ismail established the College of Dentistry, the second dental school in Baghdad.艾哈迈德·M·伊斯梅尔博士创办了牙科学院，即巴格达第二所牙科院校。

• Prof. Dr. Safaa Taqi Al-Issawi serves as President of the university and chairs its council, which holds the highest authority under ministry rules.萨法·塔基·伊萨维教授现任该校校长并主持校务委员会，该委员会依教育部规章拥有最高权力。

• Rahim AlHaj, an oud player and composer, studied at the university before a career in which he has been celebrated for his contributions to Iraqi music and the modern oud repertoire.乌德琴演奏家与作曲家拉希姆·哈吉曾就读于该校，其后在伊拉克音乐与现代乌德琴曲目领域广受称誉。

• Nadhmi Auchi, a businessman and billionaire, is among the university's notable graduates.商人与亿万富翁纳兹米·奥奇是该校知名毕业生之一。

• Alia Mamdouh, a novelist, author and journalist, won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2004 for her novel The Loved Ones.小说家、作家与记者阿莉娅·马姆杜赫凭小说《心上人》于 2004 年获得纳吉布·马哈福兹文学奖。

• Betool Khedairi, a novelist, is another writer produced by the university's colleges.小说家贝图尔·海达伊里是该校各学院培养出的又一位作家。

• Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani became a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.卡西姆·穆罕默德·塔基·萨赫拉尼曾任伊拉克国民议会议员。

• Abdullatif Ahmad Mustafa is recorded as a Kurdish Salafi cleric who studied at the university.阿卜杜勒拉蒂夫·艾哈迈德·穆斯塔法被记载为曾在该校学习的库尔德萨拉菲派教士。

• Bashar M. Nema, a professor of information security, is listed among the university's alumni.信息安全教授巴沙尔·M·尼马被列于该校校友之中。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among its alumni or faculty, and the firmest named literary honour on its books is Alia Mamdouh's Naguib Mahfouz Medal of 2004.其校友或教师中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其名录上最确凿的具名文学荣誉是阿莉娅·马姆杜赫 2004 年获颁的纳吉布·马哈福兹奖。