Message from the Vice President

Dear visitors of this website,

As Vice President for Academic Affairs of Wolaita Sodo University, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you all;

Wolaita Sodo University (WSU) is one of the applied science universities in Ethiopia that provides educational services along with rendezvous in research, community engagement, and technology transfer endeavours. WSU offers students a wide range of courses and programmes through innovative and flexible new learning modalities. In this regard, WSU has been aggressively working to create an enabling environment to deliver quality education in which students at all levels and teaching staff could be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge across and between a broad range of disciplines.

At present, we offer both postgraduate and undergraduate, as well as post-diploma programs in various disciplines, for over 38, 000 students. In the 2024 academic year, our academic programs reached 62 undergraduates, 81 postgraduate (MA and MSc), 10 PhD programs, and 4 specialty programs.

We operate our teaching and learning process in three campuses - Gandaba, Otona, and Dawuro Tercha in various modalities, such as regular, weekend, extension, and summer education programs. We have had all our academic programs accredited by the Ministry of Education, and we continuously review our curricula to make them concomitant with demand from the industry. This has made us produce thousands of competent graduates that could serve as professionals in their fields. Thus, we presume that we are indulged in contributing our shares to national development in terms of aligning our training schemas with the labor market and the industry.

In terms of availing educational facilities, WSU has established smart classrooms and e-learning facilities on its campuses. An attempt has been made to connect classroom, seminar, and workshop rooms with LCDs and computers that are connected to the internet. We also have a digital library and learning management services for our students, with more than 600,000 soft and hard copies of books. For the successful delivery of both theoretical and practical training, the university has organized various up-to-date and technology-oriented laboratories for both graduate and undergraduate students, in addition to the wireless services accessible across the campus and staff residences.

At an institutional level, we established strong partnerships and collaborations with various sisterly public and private universities in the areas of student mobility, staff exchange, scholarship, training, research, and capacity-building schemas that could help us achieve our goals. And we are still looking for other potential partners that will jointly work towards achieving our vision of being centre of excellence in Agriculture.

Finally, I would like to invite you to take a visit us and learn more about our exciting academic programmes and other educational services we offer to our customers.

Akiber Chufo Wachemo (PhD)

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wolaita Sodo University

E-mail: akiber.chufo@wsu.edu.et

Tel: +251951291199