* Seeks int’l status, offers scholarships to African nationals
JIMA- Jima University announced that it will strongly endure the scholarship opportunities which it has been offering to foreign national for Africans and nationals from other countries, said the University’s President Jemal Abafita (PhD).
By this Ethiopian academic year, the university has accepted 168 African nationals from the Federal Republic of Somalia, Nigeria, South Sudan, the Sudan, Somali Land and Punt Land.
Meanwhile, the University has graduated a total of 3139 students have completed their study and graduated at the ceremony of which 8 are at PhD, 699 are at Masters, while 2440 were graduated at BA level yesterday. Some 237 of all these graduates are Medical Doctors and 27 are Dentistry Doctors. 26.5 percent of the graduates are female.
Thirteen of these graduates are also international students from Rwanda and Somali-land who finalized their studies at post graduate level. The eleven students graduated from Somali Land are outcomes of branch Campus training located in Hargessa.
During the graduation ceremony, the President stated that the Jimma University is as part of its vision to become an international educational institution, it has been offering scholarship opportunities to African and other nationals. And this will be an area of high focus during the coming years, he added.
Furthermore, Students from Syria, Belgium, Philippines and Korea are also among nationals from outside Africa who are studying at Jima University.
With an ascent to national leadership, Jimma University has set its sights beyond the nation and seeks to become a globally recognized institution of higher education. Jimma University is famous for its international
collaborative spirit and through years of successful international collaborations in a variety of fields, an environment conducive to international academic exchange has been created.
Jimma University is increasingly attracting students from around Africa and also hosts some of the world brightest and most accomplished foreign faculty members. Through the dissemination of high quality scholarly and research output globally through renowned international journals and other venues, Jimma University’s global recognition is sure to increase in the coming years.
Jimma University is also increasingly becoming center for international conferences and with new infrastructure development and facility expansion, the capabilities of the institution to engage in the highest quality research activities is certain to increase.
Founded dates back to 1952 as Jimma college of Agriculture, Jimma University is a public research university located in Jimma, Oromia State, Ethiopia. It is recognized as the leading national university, as ranked first by the Federal Ministry of Education for four successive years, it was learnd.
The Ethiopia Herald February 23/2020
BY GENET FEKADE
