Haramaya University

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Haramaya University

Established:	1954
President:	Belay Kassa
Location:	Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Website:	http://www.haramaya.edu.et/

Haramaya University (formerly known as Alemaya University) is one of the oldest universities in Ethiopia. It is located in Haramaya, a town in the Misraq Hararghe Zone, about 20 kilometers from the city of Harar and 40 kilometers from Dire Dawa.

The university was founded with the help of Oklahoma State University, accepting its first students in 1954, and the new campus was opened in January 1958 by Emperor Haile Selassie. Haramaya University was promoted from a college within Addis Ababa University on May 27, 1985 to an independent university. For many years the university had been limited to only an agricultural curriculum, but in 1996 the university was given permission to open other faculties and departments.

[edit] Colleges and faculties

College of Agriculture
Faculty of Business and Economics: One of the prominent faculties, FBE at Haramaya University is a new and widely getting acceptance faculty. The faculty already has five departments: Computer Science and IT, Management, Accounting, Economics, and Cooperatives.
- The Computer Science and IT Department was founded in 2003. The department has five computer laboratories: three general labs (Year I, Year II, Year III), one Internet Lab and one Hardware and Networking Lab. As of March 2006, the staff consists of three expatriates and seven local.
Faculty of Law: found in Dire Dawa, it is a place of academic excellence, legal research and legal advocacy headed by Dean Gizachew Admasu.
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Continuing and Distance Education
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Technology
Faculty of Computing and Informatics