The university offers a variety of major programmes including medical, engineering, humanities, law, fine arts, physical education, political science, degree and in some specialties to postgraduate degrees such as High Diploma, MSc, MA and PhD.

It was his primary aim in 1958 after gaining his PhD in 1957 from the University of Chicago -United States of America.

Today University of Sulaimani includes (11) colleges, students obtain BSc and BA degrees in various fields of study.

The colleges are: To provide the necessary teaching staff, the university also awards MA, MSc and PhD degrees in different fields of study.

In the city of Sulaymaniyah, the first kidney transplant operation from a living donor kidney was successfully performed by a transplant team in Shoresh General Hospital on the seventh of June 2008 Ref1&2.