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Jimma University

Region: Jimma Country: Ethiopia

About The University
Jimma University (JU) is a public higher educational institution established in December 1999 by the amalgamation of Jimma College of Agriculture (founded in 1952), and Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (established in 1983).The two campuses are located in Jimma city 352 km southwest of Addis Ababa with an area of 167 hectares.

JU is Ethiopia's first Innovative Communisty Oriented Education Institution of higher learning. The University adopted the city's name for logically sound reasons. For one thing, Jimma is one of the biggest cities in the country noted for its coffee production. Secondly, Jimma was the seat of the King of the Five Gibe States during the 19th century.

The Main Campus is situated in the neighborhood of the ex-palace of Aba Jifar, now an open museum. Jimma is known among other things for its year round green attractive landscape scenery and coffee production as mentioned above.

People in Jimma and its surrounding are naturally friendly and more so for the JU community (staff and students). One can easily walk out to the nearest community and get an enthusiastic welcome.

Goals
Train competent and responsive professionals who can address the community's problems through innovative and practical means.

Promote the philosophy of Community Based Education (CBE) with the aim of bringing about palpable change in the community through active community participation and intersectoral or collaboration.

Contribute to societal development through the training of responsive professionals, the conduct of high-quality relevant research and professional advocacy.

Promote the principle of educational equity irrespective of ethnicity, religion, sex and political background.

Promote women's participation in all spheres of development. Strengthen partner and linkages with local and international institutions for the purpose of rendering high quality training, applied research and services.

Develop sound organizational and management systems for the accomplishment of its objectives.

Promote HIV/AIDS as a core strategic issue in all aspects of the university's activity

Jimma University

Jimma University (JU) is a public higher educational institution established in December 1999 by the amalgamation of Jimma College of Agriculture (founded in 1952), and Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (established in 1983).The two campuses are located in Jimma city 335 km southwest of Addis Ababa with an area of 167 hectares.

JU is Ethiopia's first innovative Communisty Oriented Education Institution of higher learning. The University adopted the city's name for logically sound reasons. For one thing, Jimma is one of the biggest cities in the country noted for its coffee production. Secondly, Jimma was the seat of the King of the Five Gibe States during the 19th century. The Main Campus is situated in the neighborhood of the ex-palace of Aba Jifar, now an open museum. Jimma is known among other things for its year round green attractive landscape scenery and coffee production as mentioned above.

People in Jimma and its surrounding are naturally friendly and more so for the JU community (staff and students). One can easily walk out to the nearest community and get an enthusiastic welcome.

African Virtual University (AVU)

Over the last ten years ,the AVU has established the largest network of open, Distance and E-earning (ODEL)centers across the African Development Bank Group (AFDP).

Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH).

Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH) is one of the oldest public hospitals in the country. It was established in 1930 E.C by Italian invaders for the service of their soldiers. Geographically, it is located in Jimma city 352 km southwest of Addis Ababa. After the withdrawal of the colonial occupants, it has been governed under the Ethiopian government by the name of Ras Desta Damtew Hospital and later Jimma Hospital during Dergue regime and currently Jimma University Specialized Hospital.

Though old for its age, it had not made remarkable physical facility improvement for years. However in the later times it became evident that some side-wing buildings were constructed by different stakeholders at different times to respond to the ever-growing pressure of service demand and clinical teaching need derived from the public and Jimma University respectively. Especially, after transfer of its ownership to Jimma University, the university has made relentless efforts in extensive renovation and expansion work to make the hospital conducive for service, teaching and research.

Currently it became the only teaching and referral hospital in the southwestern part of the country. It runs an annual governmental budget of 25.06 million Birr with bed capacity of 450 and a total of more than 750 staffs of both supportive and professional. It provides services for approximately 9000 inpatient and 80000 outpatient attendances a year coming to our hospital from the catchment population of about 15,000 million people.

Cognizant of the fast growing service and teaching role of the hospital, the federal govermnemt considered construction of a new and level- best hospital which basement started in 2008 and expected to be completed in 3 years time with a capital of 230 million Birr.

College of Public Health and Medical Sciences
The establishment of the College of Public Health and Medical Sciences of Jimma University (JU) can be traced back to 1983 G.C. with the birth of the then Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (JIHS). The very beginning of the establishment of JIHS is marked as a continuation of the Ras Desta Damtew Health Assistant Training School established in 1967 by the Ethio-Netherlands health project in the premises of Jimma Hospital. On this foundation, the School of Nursing was established in 1983. Subsequently, the School of Medicine as well as the School of Pharmacy emerged in 1985; the School of Medical Laboratory Technology and the School of Environmental Health launched in 1987 and 1988 respectively.

JU was established as a public higher education institution in December 1999 with four faculties- namely: Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Business and Economics, and Faculty of Technology, which are the major founding organs of the present Jimma University.

Then the College of Public Health and Medical Sciences was finally established by the amalgamation of the former Faculty of Public Health and Medical Faculty by the business process reengineering undertaken in the university in June 2009. The redesign has also aligned Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH) to be managed under this college as the hospitals medical services are being provided by doctors of the college while clinically teaching students.

Mission
Produce high quality multidisciplinary health care professionals through its community based educational philosophy who are competent in health care delivery and other health services and programs in the country and beyond.

Vision
We will be recognized by our community-based educational philosophy through academic, research and practice programs as a college of preference that values community, diversity, excellence and integrity in health professions education, scholarship and service.

Jimma University Student Union

JUSU, Prior to its establishment as a jimma university students union in 2006, It had first established in the form of students council. But due existence of varies fields which needs intervention, the more existence of counseling services is found insufficient and narrower in scope than JUSU. Later on the council is changed (transformed) to JUSU. It is founded and proceeded there on as per its own constitution. The constitution, which establishes and defines the JUSU power and structure, is adopted in July 2006.

Accordingly, beginning from that period on wards, it has been undertaking different socio cultural and economical change of the community. It has adopted wider scope than its initial formation. Thus, so far it has achieved wonderful result with great success for starting from the beginning. Now a day, the JUSU is still moving a head step by step for scoring high achievement in the proposed field of activities.

The union is an autonomous non political and fully secular union which is formed and governed by the students. The primary objective of the union is to work for the academic and social rights of Jimma University. Students who enrolled in the university undergraduates and post-graduate studies in the regular programme.

Administrative System of JUSU

Election conducted in free and fair manner each year in a secret ballot. The president, the vice president and the general secretary come to power through direct election in a secret ballot each year per their vote they secured. The person with the highest vote shall become the president, in addition to these chief executives, the union has executive committee.

The executive committee members come through process of indirect election, class representatives will be elected with highest vote and they will come together and elect department representative. One who secures the highest becomes the representative of the department and he/she would be the member to the General Assembly.

He/she may run to be faculty representative member of the executive. Thus, representatives of different department will elect among themselves one to represent the faculty.

Accordingly, the union executive committee is composed of faculty representative one physically disabled student representatives and one university Girls representatives, totally counting 14 members including the chief executive.

Jimma University Degree Programs :

Medicine

  • Bachelor Degree
  • BSc in Health Education and Behavioral Sciences
  • Medical Doctorate
  • MSc in Health Officer
  • Master Degree
  • MSc in Physiology

Pharmacy

  • Bachelor Degree
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy
  • Master Degree
  • Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy

Public Health

  • Master Degree
  • Master of Public Health in Reproductive Health
  • Master of Public Health in Epidemiology
  • Master of General Public Health
  • Master of Public Health in Health Education and Promotion
  • Master of Public Health in Health Education and Promotion (Summer)
  • Master of Public Health in Health Planning and Health Service Management
  • Master of Hospital and Health-care Administration
  • Master of Hospital and Health-care Administration

Video Presentation

GRADUATION DAY CEREMONY AT JIMMA UNIVERSITY

GRADUATION DAY CEREMONY AT JIMMA UNIVERSITY, JIMMA, ETHIOPIA ON 6th. FEBRUARY, 2010

Contact Details


Address:PO Box 378, Jimma, Oromia

Email: icthelpdesk@ju.edu.et

251-(0)47-111-14-58

http://www.ju.edu.et/

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