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Top 25 Colleges based in Iraq
Explore 56 colleges based in Iraq, with contact records for 7,570 people and 1,674 email addresses. The list is current as of September 2026, and Baghdad is the single most-represented city among the colleges included. It supports research by buyers and outreach to college decision-makers.
Colleges are postsecondary educational institutions that offer academic programs and award credentials such as degrees, certificates, or diplomas. This list covers colleges that operate as postsecondary educational institutions and offer academic programs or credentials, including independent colleges and college units within broader institutions. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest colleges based in Iraq
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,075 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Sulaimani (UoS), founded in 1968, is one of the largest public universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,039 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Salahaddin University-Erbil is a comprehensive public university dedicated to the advancement of learning through disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching, study, and research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Mosul is a public university located in Mosul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 538 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Babylon is a public higher education institute located in Al Hillah, Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Al-Qadisiyah (Arabic: جامعة القادسية) is an Iraqi university established in 1987 in Al Diwaniyah, Qadisiyyah Province, Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 406 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Zakho was announced as an independent university on July, 2010.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tikrit University is an Iraqi public university located in Tikrit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al-Mustaqbal University (UOMUS) is a prominent institution of higher education located in Iraq, specifically in the city of Babylon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Basra is one of the largest and oldest universities in Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “KUST was established in 2009, there are several department as following College of Business: Accounting, e-Commerce, Information Management, Business Administrative College of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cihan university-Erbil is a private English-speaking institution, one of the first and finest universities established in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Kirkuk was established on January 17, 2003, and annually celebrates its university day on the 3rd of April of each year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Raparin is a public university that houses campuses in Ranya and Qaladze, both locations being in Sulaymaniyah, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nahrain University (Arabic: جامعة النهرين),(also known as Al-Nahrain University), is a coeducational public university established in 1987 and located in Baghdad, Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dijlah University is a private academic institution in higher education of public interest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wasit University is one of the most prominent academic institutions in Iraq.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Catholic University in Erbil (CUE) is a non-profit institution of higher education and research providing recognized degrees in the arts and sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established to be a scientific and academic bastion affiliate to the Iraqi university march, Al Esraa University College has obtained the regular approvals and recognition of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Qaiwan International University, an international university located in the city of Sulaimani.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Al-Mansour University College,a non profit Co-educational Institution of higher education, was founded in Baghdad in (1988) by academically distinguished members of the board of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “لتأسيس كلية اشور الجامعة، دوراً هاماً يعمل على بث رؤية جديدة لقالب اكاديمي نوعي في العراق، يعمل على رفد البيئة الاكاديمية بكمٍّ من المتخرجين ذوي المهارة العالية بمختلف التخصصات…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Al-Kitab University College was established in the year 2012 according to the license of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, IRAQ, No.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Polytechnic - Erbil” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our university college boasts a diverse international teaching staff, drawn from some of the world's most renowned universities, to ensure that our students receive a world-class…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: colleges. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name colleges. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Colleges based in Iraq at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Iraq, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Iraq, over 56 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among colleges, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Iraq whose own description of what they do matches “colleges”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names colleges), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Iraq are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,674 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What colleges are included in the list?
The list contains 56 colleges based in Iraq, including institutions that offer academic programs and award postsecondary credentials.
How many contacts and email addresses are available for colleges?
The list includes 7,570 contacts and 1,674 email addresses associated with the colleges included.
Which city has the most colleges in the list?
Baghdad is the single most-represented city among the colleges on the list.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.