Amoud University
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amoud University is a university located in Borama. It was officially inaugurated on November 4th, 1998. It is the first post-war institution of higher learning to be established in Somaliland and the former state of Somalia. The initiative of establishing a university at the famous valley of Amoud was taken by a group of Awdalian intellectuals living and working in the Gulf states. Now, the university has six functioning faculties:
- School of Business and Public Administration
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Information Technology
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Law and Islamic Sharia
The student population of the university now exceeded 700 with high rate of female students. The students came from not only from Somaliland but also as far as from Bosaso, Beletwein, Mogadishu and Kismayo of Somalia.
