Conversation is the most fundamental means we have of interacting with others. Through conversation, people share information, form relationships, solve problems, and accomplish a multitude of everyday goals. Thus, writing and speaking are one of the more traditional aspects of effective communication. Strategic competence is one of the competencies that contribute in communicative competence. It is the ability to convey information to a listener and correctly interpret information received. It includes the use of communication strategies to solve problems that arise in the process of conveying the information. Thus, the current study aims to evaluate EFL students' conversational performance in accordance to competence in the written and spoken conversation. In order to accomplish these objectives, the following research questions are formulate: Is there statistical significance in strategic competence as a general dimension between university students' performances at Tikrit and Samarra universities? Is there statistical significance among Iraqi EFL university students' conversational performances in strategic competence at both spoken and written levels? To achieve these research questions, the following aims are posed: Identify and compare influences of strategic competence on Iraqi EFL university students' conversational performance between two universities (Tikrit and Samarra). Moreover, Identify and compare strategic competence levels in spoken and written acts between the two universities (Tikrit and Samarra). After that, the researcher designs a test in which consists of two fields; written test and spoken test (tape- recorder) to evaluate their performances. The researcher use criteria of strategic competence especially approximation, asking for clarification and asking for repetition based on Celce-Murcia model (1995). The test is applied to a sample of (100) participants. The participants are undergraduate EFL students, at the fourth year English Departments, from two universities ( College of Education For Humanities at Tikrit University and College of Education at Samarra University). The study is conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023. The data have been gathered by using a diagnostic test to evaluate students’ conversational performances. The test consists of one question, but it is divided into three levels real – life situations. After achieving test validity and reliability, the tests have been applied to a sample of (50) students from Tikrit university in which divides into (25) males and ( 25) females, moreover, a sample of (50) students from Samarra university in which divides into (25) males and (25) females in order to evaluate students' conversational performances according to strategic competence in the spoken and written levels in social contexts. The results show that there are statistically significant in written level, Tikrit university students' performances have a high level in the strategic competence rather than Samarra university, but both have low level in the spoken aspect. Keywords: Conversation and Strategic competence.