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.

The Department of Quality Assurance and University Performance establish a workshop on ( National Standards for Institutional Accreditation) 5/9/2019 in cooperation with the Department of Control and Systems Engineering with the presence of the President of the University and vice chancelor for scientific affairs and deans  of the academic departments, and managers of quality assurance divisions, and a large number of attendees

 The Manager of Quality Assurance Department (Assistant Professor Dr. Maha Abdul Kareem Hammood) explaines the National standards the general framework for writing the self-study report and the mechanism of preparing the improvement plan. It should be noted that these standards were drafted by Ministerial Committee in the mohesr and was launched last year at a national conference at university of Al- Nahrain. They include eight criteria varies between the institution's strategy, governance, management, financial and material resources, teaching staff, students, curriculum, scientific research and community service. Each criterion includes a number of elements and indicators.