Today, the University has expanded to contain 17 colleges and the Higher Institute of Planning; it has more than 11,000 undergraduate students and about 500 graduate students among different specializations. The University of Duhok was founded following a resolution by the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region to address the increasing demand for higher education in the region. The first colleges established at the University of Duhok were the College of Medicine and the College of Agriculture. Initially, the College of Medicine had 48 students, while the College of Agriculture had 166. During the first two years, embargoes imposed by the UN on Iraq and by the Iraqi Central Government on the Kurdistan Region contributed to the slow-paced growth of the University of Duhok and the poor economic conditions in Kurdistan. Today, the UoD has 8 faculties with 13 schools, more than 9100 undergraduate students and 660 graduate students.
