To the best of our knowledge this is the first attempt to investigate student engagement in learning within the Kurdistan region in general and at University of Raparin in particular. Student engagement, self-learning, faculty-student interaction and promoting personal responsibility, besides environment of learning are the components for this research. Research has shown that the students who are motivated, engaged, and interactive are more likely to be successful during their study at university. In brief, this research presents a review of the literature and trends in order to determine the obstacles of better student engagement and student achievement in university of Raparin at undergraduate level sample study takes fourth year English department students and second year Nursing students.