The Postgraduate Admission criteria for the academic year has been issued by the Admission Management of the Jimma University Postgraduate Program 2020/21.
Therefore, before the application closing date, any applicant who wants admission to Jimma University should hurry and secure this opportunity.
Jimma University strives to be one of Africa’s premier universities and to be renowned worldwide by 2025.
To educate high-caliber national and international talents through their beloved and creative Community-Based Education (CBE), to conduct quality and problem-solving analysis, to represent and involve local, national, and global communities.
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About Jimma University
Jimma University is a public higher education institution that was established in December 1999 by the merger of Jimma College of Agriculture (founded in 1952) and Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (established in 1983).
The two campuses in the city of Jimma are located 352 km southwest of Addis Ababa and cover an area of 167 hectares.
For Innovative Community-Centered Education in Ethiopia, JU is the first higher learning institution.
The university adopted the name of the city for comparatively sound reasons. For one thing, Jimma is one of the largest towns in the world, renowned for its production of coffee.
Secondly, the seat of the King of the Five Gibe States was Jimma during the 19th century.
The main campus is in the area of Aba Jifar’s old palace, which is now a free museum.
Jimma is renowned for its attractive green landscape and coffee production during the year, among other things.
Jimma University was founded in the 80s on the basis of the union between the Jimma Institute of Health Sciences and the Jimma College of Agriculture.
In their respective fields, both organizations became national leaders and with the unification, the creation of a modern, multifaceted, and development-oriented organization was able to emerge from the two former specialized institutions.
As a government, Ethiopia was determined during the 1990s to address the important development challenges facing the region.
In all sectors of society and in all countries, such problems have been established. Given this fact, it was important to establish new structures in a way that would be conducive to the growth of the country.
For the country’s wider growth, a well-conceived and applicable institutional development scheme for higher education was appropriate.
Many new higher education institutions have been developed in the world, while existing institutions have been improved and enlarged.
No higher education institution in the country is more representative of this expansion and strengthening of programs than Jimma University.
Though Jimma University was outside the capital, it had the capacity to uphold a level of education not found elsewhere in the region.
Intellectual and intellectual operation at Jimma University has become a center that draws opinion leaders, innovators, academics, and leaders from around the world.
Jimma University is also called the nation’s highest-ranking public school, and this comes from each academic program’s excellence.
Jimma University has an international tradition of cooperation that has set the tone for it to be a genuinely global organization.
Jimma University’s parent organization, the Jimma College of Agriculture, was founded in the 1960s with foreign collaborators from the University of Oklahoma in the United States to discuss agricultural matters.
For decades, Jimma University has hosted partners from all over the world. Global teachers from India and the Philippines, Cuban doctors and construction professionals, American and European doctors, and public health professionals, and Asian development partners from South Korea, Japan, and China are among other long-term allies.
Jimma University is also regarded by international partners as a special, but little-known, major research, and higher education institution.
A host of external collaborators, academics, and writers have published publications successfully, participated in a fundamental study that is nationally relevant, and worked at Jimma University on Ph.D. dissertations.
Today, with a number of collaborators from all over the world, Jimma University has several Memorandums of Understanding.
Jimma University stresses that where the most complex group of foreign collaborators emerges, the strength of cooperation is strongest.
In view of this, Jimma University today has collaborations with numerous collaborators from Africa, East, and Western Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Latin America, and North America. you can also check this related post List of Academic Programs offered at Jimma University in 2021.
Jimma University is in a crucial stage of growth, and the aim of being an internationally collaborative and competitive university that delivers the highest quality academic and research output annually can certainly be accomplished through the physical and programmatic development of the institution.
Objectives
- Building a culture of academic achievement that encourages the performance of students in analytical skills, graduation, and employability.
- To establish the highest science standards that resolve urgent national and global issues.
- Empowering the neighborhood with our innovative and sensitive programs to address their own problems.
- Build a dynamic global network of intercultural, curricular, and co-curricular resources that make students competent globally.
- To create a reciprocal relationship for credibility, financial security, and investment maximization.
Admission intake
Current students are expected to register every semester for classes for the next semester. Registration is conducted at the respective Students’ Affairs college office.
Students should receive three copies of registration slips from the relevant department in order to register for classes and fill out the necessary details to have them signed by the director of the department/school and send one copy of the slip to the respective student affairs college office and one copy to the registrar’s university office.
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Admission to the Regular Graduate Program
The applicant must have fulfilled the Bachelor’s degree academic requirement with:
A 2.00 or better Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) from every recognized higher learning institution. Given the scarcity of positions, however, admission to the School of Graduate Studies must be on a competitive basis.
At least two letters of recommendation from the relevant agency or college must be endorsed by the applicant. Such letters of recommendation should ideally come from professors or supervisors who are well aware of the potential of the candidate to fulfill the relevant graduate study criteria.
Graduate students must have proof of financial support/capacity to defray tuition and thesis project expenses. In any event, any graduate student will not be eligible to enroll and continue taking classes without this proof being provided.
Admission is three times a year for the spring semester starting in January, for the autumn semester beginning in September, and for the summer semester beginning in July.
Age: There will be applications for anybody who wishes to enter the graduate program. The College Academic Commission can set appropriate age limits, subject to the approval of the Council of Graduate Studies, for pedagogical purposes or for particular criteria in the field of research.
However, the overall age limit for a candidate to be accepted to a master’s degree program does not exceed 35 years and 45 years for a Ph.D. degree program.
The Post Graduate Entry Test and/or other relevant criteria that may be set by the respective department and the Council of Graduate Studies shall be passed by the applicant to be accepted to the graduate program.
Documents Required
You should prepare all the necessary documents when applying for admission to Jimma University in Ethiopia.
Request a list of required documentation directly from the university, although these can vary from country to country.
- All-Academic Documents
- Passport
- Contact No
- Photographs
- Proof of fee payment
- Letters of recommendation (MA, Ph.D.)
- Letters of recommendation (for undergraduate)
- Health and Life Insurance
- Student visa
- Declaration for financial support
Jimma University details
Jimma University
Address: P.O. BOX 378
Jimma, Ethiopia
Location: Jimma, Ethiopia
Telephone Number: +251-(0)47-111-78-22
Telephone Number 2: +251-(0)471-111-89-41
Email Address: [email protected]
Doctorate Courses (10 courses)
- Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition
- Ph.D. in Science and Engineering
- Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering
- Ph.D. in Plant Breeding
- Ph.D. in Plant Pathology
- Ph.D. in Chemistry
- Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering
- Ph.D. in Metallurgy Engineering
- Ph.D. in Applied Microbiology
- Ph.D. in Biostatistics
Masters Courses (33 courses)
- Master of Science in Agronomy
- Master of Science in Plant Breeding
- Master of Science in Animal Production
- Master of Sports Management
- Master of Science in Plant Biotechnology
- Master of Industry Based Horticulture
- Master of Animal Breeding and Genetics
- Master of Polymer Engineering
- Master of Biotechnology
- Master of Science in Natural Resource Management
- Master of Science in Soil Science
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Science in Accounting and Finance
- Master of Science in Accounting
- Master of Arts in Public Administration
- Masters in Sustainable Energy Science and Engineering
- Master of Science in Water Resource Engineering
- Master of Environmental Engineering
- Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Master of Geotechnical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mathematics
- Master of Science in Medical Microbiology
- Master of Science in Public Health
- Master of Arts in English
- Master of Ceramic Engineering
- Master of Metallurgy Engineering
- Master of Structural Engineering
- Master of Construction Engineering
- Master of Science in Hydraulics Engineering
- Master of Botanical Science
- Master of Ecological and Systematic Zoology
- Master of Electronic and Digital Resource Management
Tuition Fee
Graduate school tuition and other costs
- Master’s Degree Program:
Ethiopian Graduate Students Self-Sponsored
Tuition fee for the Course Work – Birr 250.00/Credit
Research – Birr 750.00/Credit
| Tuition fee for course work-per Credit/ (USD) | Research fee (USD) |
| Natural Science 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Technology 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Public Health 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Medical laboratory Technology 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Mental Health 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Pharmacy 250.00 | 10000.00 |
| Social Science 250.00 | 5000.00 |
| Language 250.00 | 5000.00 |
| Education 250.00 | 5000.00 |
- Medical Certificate of Specialty
Internal Medicine – 4658 USD/year
Ophthalmology – 4658 USD/year
Surgery – 4658 USD/year
Gynecology – 4658 USD/year
Pediatrics – 4658 USD/year
- Undergraduate Program
Self-Sponsored Ethiopian Students
Tuition fee for the course work
Natural Science 125.00 Birr/Credit
Technology 125.00 Birr/Credit
Agriculture 125.00 Birr/Credit
Pharmacy 125.00 Birr/Credit
Medicine 135.00 Birr/Credit
Social Science 100.00 Birr/Credit
Language 100.00 Birr/Credit
Education 100.00 Birr/Credit
Foreign Students
Tuition fee for the course work
Natural Science 125.00 USD/credit
Technology 125.00 USD/credit
Agriculture 125.00 USD/credit
Pharmacy 125.00 USD/credit
Medicine 135.00 USD/credit
Social Science 100.00 USD/Credit/Semester
Language 100.00 USD/Credit/Semester
Education 100.00 USD/Credit/Semester
Why research at Jimma University and teach?
An evergreen area with attractive scenery is the Jimma Region, where Jimma City and Jimma University are located. It is noted all year long for good weather patterns with mild precipitation and temperature.
It is the location where coffee originates and is naturally blessed with diverse plant varieties, providing magnificent opportunities for agricultural students and researchers.
Packed with state of the art facilities, the expansion of a huge teaching and referral hospital has also been completed.
This is applied to the theoretical and practical preparation of trained and skilled teaching practitioners, making it a preferred destination for learning in various fields of health and medical sciences.
Over the last ten years, the Jimma Institute of Technology has shown impressive improvements. It has become one of the country’s largest technology institutes with high-tech labs and laboratory services, attracting 15,000 campus students providing instruction in different engineering disciplines at the level of BSc, MSc, and Ph.D.
Being a comprehensive university with ever-rising teaching and testing facilities and capabilities place JU in an advantageous position to be a primary option institution in the sub-region of Eastern Africa for instruction, research, and collaboration.
School of Postgraduate Studies
The School’s goal is to cultivate qualified practitioners at the graduate and postgraduate levels in the different disciplines of university learning who can respond to the needs of society.
Created in 2003, the Jimma University School of Graduate Studies (SGS) educates the next generation of experts and scholars to further advance knowledge in their chosen fields and to apply new skills to meet society’s needs.
The mission of the School of Graduate Studies is to initiate, organize, and manage a wide range of multidisciplinary graduate programs on the Jimma campus, at professional sector locations, and throughout the virtual world.
SGS offers thesis and study programs at the master’s, undergraduate and post-doctoral levels.
The school is a center of academic achievement with a multicultural focus that combines academic preparation, research, and community service. Our students represent the country’s best and most accomplished.
They come to research with us from diverse cultures and personal perspectives in order to hone their talents in order to recognize, evaluate, and intervene before they return to their professional positions in society’s greatest challenges.
We are proud that over 1000 students with a number of degrees graduate each year.
Our faculty, too, brings expertise in the real world and academic performance to graduate studies.
In order to create a teaching-learning atmosphere that will promote the sharing of innovative ideas and the transfer of high-value expertise for the creation of professionalism of the highest level, our teaching staff, both Ethiopian and foreign, apply realistic, real-life knowledge along with theory.
In order to educate students in non-traditional, off-campus settings, the School of Graduate Studies acknowledges that education in the 21st century will rely on the ability to harness technology.
In view of this, the School has pursued a series of dynamic projects by distinctive means to offer high-quality graduate education to a range of students.
Working with our clients, Washington DC-based Lucy Consultancy and Addis Ababa-based ABH Services, we educate virtual realm engineers, public health practitioners, and business administration professionals with the most up-to-date and applicable technical expertise and skills.
On industry sites, such as the Gibe Dam site, we also offer courses that enable professionals working to pursue their postgraduate degrees while keeping their professional positions.
As a regional higher education institute, the School of Graduate Studies is also expanding.
We are proud to have opened a campus in Hargeisa, Somaliland, so the Somali people can benefit from our educational theory and practice.
The School of Graduate Studies plans to further extend its programs on campus, at more field sites, and in the virtual world at Jimma University.
The School also aims to expand the number of masters, Ph.D., technical qualifications provided by the programs we deliver while simultaneously increasing the quality of programs created.
The standard of our programs and the advantages our graduates offer to society can only improve through cooperation, deliberation, and a relentless drive to pursue academic excellence important to professionalism in the 21st century.
Provisions for General Admission
Priority for entry shall be granted to an individual who has a high scholastic status, whose educational experience has been superior, and who has earned positive reviews.
In order to run a graduate program in a university department, a minimum of ten students can be accepted in any one year, except in clinical disciplines where even fewer than 10 students can be enrolled as it has a service aspect.
However, the relevant DGC shall decide the optimal (minimum and maximum) number of students in the various courses, taking into account the number of personnel, the availability of accommodation, and the requirement for instruction.
The SGS can from time to time, provide additional entry criteria consistent with the rules and regulations of the university. These may be of general application or may apply to particular graduate studies programs.
Organization
The School of Graduate Studies was officially established with the following general goals in the academic year 2003.
- To initiate
- Coordinating and coordinating
- Administration of courses for graduates
The governing body of the school is the Council of Graduate Studies (CGS).
The responsibility of the CGS is in compliance with the regulation of the University, which is:
