University of Zakho is located in Duhok, Iraq.
It has its origins in Colleges of Commerce and Education set up in 2005 as part of the University of Duhok.
Students can study across seven colleges and a combined 28 departments. The colleges include science, humanities, medicine, administration and economics, engineering, education, and basic education.
Among the newer sections is the accounting section introduced by administration and economics in 2023.
Kurdish is one of four languages, along with Turkish, English and Arabic, offered at degree level, while six-week programmes in Persian have run since 2022.
Research centres include the Zakho Centre for Kurdish Research which runs an annual conference.
Memoranda of Understanding were signed with six other Iraqi Kurdistan universities in 2023.
