Today, the Web Metrics ranking of universities was released globally for the July 2020 cycle , as Damietta University progressed 258 places from the July 2019 ranking. This reflects the progress of the university at a steady pace in all fields, not scientific research only sponsored by professor Dr . El Sayed Mohamad Dadour the president of the university and it shows the extent of the effort made by the graduate studies sector under the supervision of Professor Dr. Hemdan Rabie – the vice president for Postgraduate Studies and Research in order to improve the university's global ranking in all classifications . It also shows the interest of the faculty members of the university  in scientific research and publishing in international periodicals and it also emphasizes the significant role played by the university team to collect data on the university that supports improving the global ranking. The university's website officials have also played a prominent role in this significant improvement as a result of their outstanding work in this regard.

Damietta University's ranking was as follows:

North African universities: 54^th

Universities of the Continent of Africa: 117^th

Universities of the Arab world: 127th

Universities of the Middle East: 314^th

At the level of the international public and private universities participating in the classification, which numbered 30,000 (thirty thousand) universities: 3509