Wolkite University

Wolkite University is determined to contribute to the reduction of poverty and the enhancement of growth and transformation of the national economy by producing competent professionals, conducting problem-solving research, and providing different community service activities.

Wolkite University, being one of the recently established third generation public higher institutions and which was categorized under Universities of Applied Sciences, started its teaching and learning process in November 24, 2012 G.C. The University has been started the teaching and learning process in Wolkite Industrial College by admitting 551 first batch students in three colleges: namely College of Engineering and Technology (with 353 students ), College of natural and Computational Science (with 84 students) and College of Computing and Informatics (with 114 students).

During the University establishment there were 13 departments at the time of the commencement. In the 2013 academic year, by conducting a need assessment and getting approval from the university senate and from the Ministry of Education (MOE) additional four colleges were opened by admitting new 1156 students. The newly opened colleges were Health Sciences & Medicine, College of Social Science and Humanities, College of Agriculture, and College of Business and Economics. Similarly, in 2014 academic year, by adding one School (School of Law), the University runs 32 undergraduate programs (by admitting 2227 students) in seven colleges and one school. By expanding the College of Behavioral Science in 2018, the University has increased the number of colleges to 8.

Since its inception, the university, as a higher education institution, has been fulfilling its role in producing the required human resources in quantity and quality and fulfilling the required human power in various sectors at the national level. By enhancing the number of graduating students, with in the last ten years the University has graduated more than 17,000 students. The vision of the institution is to be one of the leading applied science universities in Ethiopia.