Abstract

The research aims to diagnose the availability of strategic alignment in the private higher education sector by application in a number of private colleges numbering 10 colleges, as strategic alignment represents one of the modern concepts in the field of business administration and strategic management in particular, due to its great importance to the overall performance and success of organizations, not to mention the increase In the number of private colleges in Iraq. The research community was represented by the senior leaders of the colleges investigated, which numbered 162 views, 145 questionnaires were distributed to them, and 129 were returned, of which 128 were valid for statistical analysis, with a rate of 79% of the total community subject to statistical analysis. The "analytical descriptive" approach was added through the use of the questionnaire as a main tool for collecting data from the sample, and it contained 20 items, and was subjected to reliability tests to demonstrate its validity for statistical analysis. The data were analyzed using the statistical program (SPSS,26) through the appropriate statistical methods. The results showed that the extent of the strategic alignment of private colleges is high, and there are no significant differences between colleges with regard to the level of strategic alignment in them. Accordingly, a number of recommendations were presented by the need to pay more attention to strategic alignment.