University of Baghdad

The University of Baghdad was established in 1957. Its new campus, in the Jadiriyya neighborhood of Baghdad, was developed to a masterplan by Walter Gropius and The Architects' Collaborative, in close collaboration with Hisham Munir. The university's Department of Architecture was founded in 1959, within the College of Engineering and offered a five-year undergraduate programme which led to a Bachelors degree. Postgraduate courses in the Architectural Sciences were subsequently established in the late 1970s, initially with Masters degrees and then, from the mid 1980s, with PhDs.