Madda Walabu University

Madda Walabu University is a public Ethiopian university that was established in 2006. I

The university is located in the town of Robe, in the south-central Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The town is situated 430km from the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, and is named after the Robe River that flows through the area.

The university also has two other campuses located in the towns of Goba and Shashemene.

In 2007 the university opened its teaching hospital, the Madda Walabu University Goba Hospital, which aims to provide training, research and healthcare service provision in the country through prioritising research, student centred training and patient centred health care delivery. The hospital provides high quality health care to patients in the communities of Bale, East Bale, West Arsi, Guji Zone, and part of the Somali region.

Academically, the university is organised into eight colleges: college of natural and computational science, college of business and economics, college of social sciences and humanities, college of computing, college of engineering, college of education and behavioural studies, college of agriculture and natural resources, and the college of law. Each college is divided into different departments, which offer a range of both undergraduate and graduate degree programmes.