The College of Mass Communication

was established from the nucleus of the Journalism Department of the College of Arts / University of Baghdad in 2002. At the beginning of its establishment, the college included only two academic departments: the Department of Journalism and the Department of Radio and Television Journalism, in addition to divisions and fixed administrative units. In 2005, a new scientific department, the Department of Public Relations, was created. The Faculty of Information was a department of the Faculty of Arts, established in 1964. It stopped for years, then reopened for the academic year (1974-1975) under the name of the Information Department. It included two branches (the Press Branch and the Radio and Television Journalism Branch).