Madda Walabu University

Madda Walabu university is one of the higher educational institutions located in south eastern part of Ethiopia , Bale zone at about 430 Km away from the capital city, Addis Ababa. The name Madda Walabu university is given to the university based on the place which is 227 km away from the zonal town Robe to the south west. Historically, the place is closely related to the Oromo people who are the

brain child of the culture of the “Gada” system as it has been recurrently indicated by elders and modern researchers. This place has deep rooted value for Oromo people. Nowadays, the name Madda Walabu is commonly used by Madda Walabu stadium, Madda Walabu Cultural band, Madda Walabu university itself and other smaller business centers named after this unique place in order to make the memory long lasting in the mind of the people. Madda Walabu university is, in fact, among the recently founded institutions of higher education in the country. However, despite its being recent, the university can be categorized as the rapidly changing institution in terms of student admission and expansion of programmes and campuses. Its geography and its state of being bread basket in terms of production makes its surrounding to be the Ukraine of Africa, which in turn makes the university a place of worth living. More over, the university is surrounded by different tourist attraction centers which make it appealing to be an ear catching institution to be visited. Currently, the university is running over 42 programmes at BA/BSc/MSc and BEd levels. It has 10 schools. The existing schools are Technology and Engineering, Natural and Computational Science, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Health Science, Social Science and Humanities and Business and Economics, each of which has its own course team. At the present, there are 12,190 students in the university whose number has steadily been increasing from year to year.