University of Addis Ababa
| University of Addis Ababa አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ |
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| founding | 1950 |
| place | Addis Ababa , Ethiopia |
| president | Andreas Esheté |
| Students | 48 673 (2013/14) |
| Employee | 6043 (2013/14) |
| including professors | 2408 (2013/14) |
| Website | www.aau.edu.et |
The University of Addis Ababa ( English Addis Ababa University , Amharic አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ) is the state university in Addis Ababa , the capital of Ethiopia . The educational institution was founded in 1950 as the University College of Addis Ababa . In 1962, the institution was renamed Haile Selassie I. University and in 1975 it was given its current name.
The university has a total of seven locations, six of which are in Addis Ababa and one campus in Debre Zeyit , about 45 km from Addis Ababa. In addition, the university has other branches in various cities in the country. The main building previously served as a palace for Emperor Haile Selassie I. This is where the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and the Ethnological Museum are located, as well as an excellent exhibition of historical Ethiopian works of art. The remains of Lucy , one of the oldest known hominini, over three million years old, are in the National Museum, which is in the Ammist Kilo neighborhood.
history
The university was founded in 1950 at the request of the then emperor Haile Selassie to the Canadian Jesuit Dr. Lucien Matte founded. It was intended as a college for two-year degrees and opened just a year later. During the first two years the college was attached to the University of London .
After the Derg came to power , the facility was temporarily closed on March 4, 1975 and all 50,000 students were sent across the country to support the new regime there. Ironically, it was later a group of former Tigray college students who formed the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) to resist the Derg regime and later joined with other groups to form the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front .
In 1979 the university offered its first master’s degree and the first post-graduate programs followed in 1987 .
The German economist Knut Richter taught at the University of Addis Abebas from 1981 to 1984.
Graduates
- Jimmy Lemi Milla (1948–2011), South Sudanese politician
literature
- Teshome G. Wagaw: The Development of Higher Education and Social Change, an Ethiopian Experience . Michigan State University Press, East Lansing (Michigan) 1990, ISBN 0-87013-283-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d AAU at a glance. aau.edu.et, December 28, 2013, accessed October 30, 2014 .
Web links
- University website (English)