University of Kufa

University of Kufa

جامعة الكوفة
Aerial view of the Campus Entrance
Type	Public
Established	1987
President	Yasir Lafta Hassoun
Undergraduates	27,614 from 1993 to 2018
Postgraduates	3,050 from 1993 to 2018
Address	P.O Box 21, Kufa, Najaf Governorate, Iraq , Kufa , Najaf , 540011 , Iraq
Website	www.uokufa.edu.iq

The University of Kufa is one of Iraqi universities located in Kufa, Iraq. It was founded on December 23, 1987^[1] of only two faculties; Education for Women and Medicine. Worthy mentioned that the Faculty of Medicine was established roughly a decade earlier and it was affiliated to Al-Mustansiriyah University. In 1989, the Faculty of Arts was initiated consisting of only two departments: History and Arabic Language, and then in 1993 the faculties of Administration, Sciences and Engineering were founded. In 1997, the Agriculture Faculty was established, then the faculty of Pharmacy in 1999.

The Faculty of Law was initiated in 2004 on the basis of the law department which was affiliated to Administration Faculty, and in 2006, Nursing, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine Faculties were founded. At the same year, the Faculty of Jurisprudence, found in 1958, was reopened after being closed by Saddam Hussein's regime in 1991. In 2008, the Faculties of Mathematics and Computer, and Physical Education were established followed by Education and basic Education Faculties in 2009, and then in 2011, the Faculties of Urban Planning and Archaeology were founded.

In 2013, the department of Political Sciences dissociated from the Faculty of Law and became an independent Faculty. Finally, the Faculty of Languages was established in 2014, after that, the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies was founded in 2017. Thus, the University of Kufa comprises 22 faculties^[2] in different majors, and it has 109 departments.^[3] The university seeks more achievements and attainments via hard and diligent work to expand the number of faculties and departments of uncommon majors needed in labor market.