For the first time in it’s history, the University of Technology enter the British Times (World University Rankings) as one of the best  1001 universities in the world and as the second Iraqi university. Universities have been classify by five basic criteria including (teaching, research, citation, industrial income and outlook).

The assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs, Prof. Dr. Alaa Abdul Hassan Attia said that Times Rankings rated two Iraqi universities in 2020: (University of Baghdad and the University of Technology) and our university seeks to occupies advanced ranks in the future in general and the higher education In particular. The next step of the university is to put comprehensive plan to enter in the Shanghai rankings.