Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear all, who are navigating through
our university webpage seeking information about the overall activities of the
university; welcome to Wolaita Sodo University “Green, Clean, Peaceful, Comfortable
and Diversified University. As an Academic Vice President of WSU, I am pleased
to welcome prospective students and other website visitors including
Researchers, Academicians, Guests, Alumni and all national and international community
members.

WSU is one of the pioneer’s higher
education institutions in the history of Ethiopian second-generation
universities in providing educational services [teaching and learning, research,
community services and technology transfer and consultancy services] has been
diligently delivering quality education at different levels. The vision of WSU
is to become technologically transformed Center of Excellence in Agriculture
and Health in 2022 E.C.  The university is
aggressively working to create a learning community in which students at all levels,
and teaching staffs, could be engaged in pursuit of knowledge across and
between a broad range of disciplines in various seven colleges and three
schools with the focus areas of Agriculture, Health, Engineering, Mining and
Tourism. It offers students a wide range of courses and programs, through its
innovative and flexible new learning environment.

The University offers both
post-graduate and undergraduate, as well as Post diploma programs in various
disciplines. Totally, WSU offers 58 Undergraduate Programs, 55 Post graduate
(MA and MSc), 6 PhD Programs and 2 specialties in our three campuses (Gandaba,
Ottona and Dawuro Tercha). Besides, WSU is working to expand the campuses into six
areas in the coming few years.  WSU has
100 PhD, 713 MA and MSc, 26 Specialists and 213 BSc and BA and 91 Medical
Doctors (MD) that offer various programs in four modalities (Regular, Week end,
Extension, and summer education programs to more than 38, 083 students.

WSU has accreditations from MoE
(Ministry of Education) for all the programs it offers. It is committed to
advancing various disciplines through training, knowledge generation and
service delivery in the country and beyond. 

WSU has recorded enormous remarkable
achievements in the past 15 years. Recently, WSU have got the 2^nd
rank among Ethiopian Applied Universities and 1^st rank in effective Leadership.
 WSU also has graduated thousands of
competent professionals in various fields, programs; and as a result, has
contributed its share to the development endeavors of the nation through
aligning its overall operations with the country’s strategic plan and educational
roadmap. We are always committed to satisfy the interest of our customers; and we
are very flexible to the needs of the labor market and the industry, and also smoothly
getting internet access through its well organized wired and wireless network.
The educational activities of the university are directed towards providing quality
education to produce competent graduates.

WSU has established smart class rooms and
e-learning facilities. All classes, seminar and workshop rooms are equipped
with LCDs and computers that are connected to the internet. We 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 buildings.

The University has established Alumni
Association of the previous graduates. Our alumni are our mirrors; thus, your
comments and feedback are invaluable. The university appreciates any feedback
related to the overall and/or its specific activities. WSU has strong linkage
and cooperation with more than 81 international partners and public and private
institutions and/or universities in the areas of student mobility, staff
exchange, scholarship, training, research, and community services. Recently, we
have established strong linkage with Global Knowledge Exchange Network
(GKEN), the collaborations helped us to enhance our staff capacity through
training and education; and also, joint research projects. Our future interest
is to further expand our international partnerships and collaborations in order
to continue focusing on Agriculture and Health, Tourism, Mining and Energy, and
Engineering and Technology education, training and as a research
institute. 

As part of addressing its corporate social
responsibility, WSU has been working on helping the low-income community
through providing scholarships and direct financial support for People with various
impairment and disabilities.  

Offices Under Vice President for Academic
Affairs: Academic Program and Staff Development Directorate, Register Alumni
Directorate, Continuous Education Program Directorate, Central Laboratory
Directorate, Quality Enhancement Directorate, Academic Affairs Directorate,
Library Directorate, Graduate Studies Directorate, College of Agriculture,
College of Business and Economics, College of Education and Behavioral Studies,
College of Engineering, College of Health and Medicine, College of Social
Science and Humanities, College of Natural and Computational science, School of
Law, School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Informatics.

I can assure you that during your stay
here at Wolaita Sodo University (WSU), we will equip you with the appropriate
skills to effectively function in the rapidly changing global environment
through our scholarly teaching methodologies coupled with the internship
activities of practical work with our standardized laboratories, research and
practical engagement in your education and training programs. I would like to invite
you to take a visit on our university’s web site and learn more about the
exciting academic programs, staff profiles and scientific research.

Our Moto is “Knowledge in Action” and WSU is the right
choice for the natio

Akiber Chufo (PhD)

Development

Academic Vice President, Wolaita Sodo University