Profile
of African Universities
The Institute of Development and Education
for Africa (IDEA), Inc. will present Profile of
African Universities in an effort to creating
network among prominent African higher
institutions of learning and setting the tone for
exchange of ideas and experiences, as well as
forging educational discourse and dialogue among
the universities. The Profile will be
presented in alphabetical order and will feature
the establishment, mission and objectives,
administration, faculty and programs of the
respective universities.
Addis Ababa
University
Addis
Ababa University was founded by Emperor Haile
Selassie in 1950 and is the first higher education
of learning of the country. It was then known as
University College of Addis Ababa (UCAA), but
following the abortive coup d’etat of 1960, the
Emperor granted his palace to be the main campus (Sidist
Kilo) of the University, and in 1962 UCAA was
renamed Haile Selassie I University (HSIU).
Following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, the
University was again renamed Addis Ababa
University (AAU).
Mission:
According
to the official website of the University, the
mission of AAU is to transmit, develop,
disseminate and preserve knowledge relevant to the
solutions of the problems of development of the
country through student-centered quality teaching,
research scholarship, creative application of
existing knowledge and provision of services to
the community.
Objectives:
- Facilitate and maintain excellence in teaching and
research
- Develop the University into a regional center of
excellence in both its undergraduate and
postgraduate programs.
- Expand the service of the University to the community
through a variety of courses and programs
through par-time study, distance learning,
purpose-designed training with non-credit
courses and workshops.
- Work towards the realization of greater cost
effectiveness through, among other things,
devising strategies for financing the
University’s programs partially from sources
other than those of Government.
Programs and their
Organization
Currently
AAU consists of one college, seven faculties, five
schools, and four research institutes:
1.
College of Social Science
2.
Faculty of Education
3.
Faculty of Law
4.
Faculty of Technology
5.
Faculty of Science
6.
Institute of Language Studies
7.
Faculty of Business and Economics
8.
Faculty of Medicine
9.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
10.
Faculty of Informatics
11.
School of Pharmacy
12.
Institute of Ethiopian Studies
13.
Institute of Development Research
14.
Institute of Educational Research
15.
Institute of Pathobiology
16.
The African Virtual University
Staff
and Enrollment: Three are currently a
total of 802 faculties with 38 professors, 131
associate professors, 212 assistant professors,
313 lecturers, 78 assistant lecturers, and 35
graduate assistants. The total student enrollment
is 23,060.
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