Koya University

About

Koya University is located in the city of Koya (Koysinjaq), which is roughly 1 hour drive to the East of the Kurdistan Region capital, Erbil (Arbil, Hewlér) in North of Iraq. It is on the foothills of the beautiful high mountain, Haibat Sultan. Its campus has been carefully laid out to embrace the beautiful mountainous nature.

The Koya University was established in 2003 and has noticeably proven developement. In 2010, Koya University was restructured from colleges to faculty systems in order to enhance the interactions between similar academic fields. Today the University has 4 faculties and 34 departements in different fields, such as Petroleum Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Law and Administration, Clinical Psychology and Medical Microbiology.

'Enabling a Brighter Future'

The University's Mission is inspired by undertaking the special and greatly needed task of serving the contemporary Kurdish nation, particularly Kurdistan Region of Iraq. This mission will come to exist upon creating a leading quality intellectuals through promoting professionalism, awareness and scholarship among the younger and for the future generations in parallel with maintaining sustainable development in Kurdistan. Thus, the Koya University's slogan of 'Enables a Brighter Future' has consolidated into a real mission to be accomplished.

Mission of Koya University

Koya University will transform lives and serve society by educating, creating knowledge and putting knowledge to work on a large scale and with excellence for a brighter education. Koya University fills the purposes for which the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences; the advancement and education of youth in all manner of brighter education; and all other necessary provisions that may conduce to the education of the youth of this country. Koya University strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities in a brighter education strategy. To these ends, the university encourages students to respect ideas and their free expression, and to rejoice in discovery and in critical thought; to pursue excellence in a spirit of productive cooperation; and to assume responsibility for the consequences of personal actions. Koya University seeks to identify and to remove restraints on students’ full participation, so that individuals may explore their capabilities and interests and may develop their full intellectual and human potential. Education at Koya University should liberate students to explore, to create, to challenge, and to lead.

The support the University provides to students is a foundation upon which self-reliance and habits of lifelong learning are built: Koya University expects that the free education and good working collaborative environment fosters in its students will lead them in their later lives to advance knowledge, to promote understanding, and to serve society. The students shall see themselves as assets to future of Kurdistan.

Koya University strives to strengthen the cooperation with other universities and scientific research centers locally, regionally and globally to enable a brighter education environment.

The vision of Koya University

To enable a brighter education and create a brilliant future for Koya University in which the students and staff thrive. Furthermore Koya University strives to:

  • become known as a centre of excellence for ensuring the quality of education at the local, regional and international levels, while maintaining the Kurdish historical authenticity.

  • be a centre of research and teaching, dedicated to developing and disseminating original knowledge to benefit the world of the future of Kurdistan in particular, is underpinned by a commitment by its administration. This overarching commitment is relevant to every aspect of academic endeavour.

  • achieve excellence under the climate which characterised by independence, freedom and democracy, including equality, and contribute to community service and sustainable development.

Aims and Objectives of Koya University

Koya University aims to:

  • ensure the quality of education and continuous development through awareness of the culture of quality.

  • coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and with other educational institutions to ensure access to an integrated system of standards and rules of comparisons of development and mechanisms for measuring performance and guided by international standards, whilst promoting the Kurdish identity of cultural traditions.

  • providing continuous consulting and training courses for faculty members at the University.

  • continuous development of educational programs and graduate programs in line with the requirements of the times and lead to the quality of graduates.

  • upgrading managing the university through the electronic management, including help to strengthen the link between the schools and the link with other local educational institutions, at a regional and global level.

  • development of better education and establishing new schools to achieve accreditation and respond to local and regional competitive.

  • establishing specialized scientific centres of effective training, community service and advancing the development and cultural progress.

  • provide an atmosphere of creativity and excellence and deepening of the noble values ​​that maintain the fabric of society and progress, such as national loyalty, ideals and morality develop the society on the basis of effective scientific and solve problems that impede their success through purposeful research projects.

The basic values ​​of Koya University

  • Koya University derives its values ​​from the values ​​established for the Kurdish culture and traditions.

  • development of students intellectually, socially, and academically, through academic and professional programs and challenges.

  • autonomy in decisions.

  • emphasising on human relations and healthy work environment.

  • equal opportunity for professional and personal development which must be characterised by quality and legitimacy, respect and academic ethics.