Academic Programs Directorate

            The Director for Academic Program Directorate who is to be appointed by the President, is accountable to the Office of the AVP. The Director shall have three years of term, upon the completion of which he might be re-elected for one more term.

            Powers and Responsibilities

The Director for Academic Program Directorate shall have the following powers and responsibilities.

Ø  Oversee the smooth implementation of the teaching-learning process in Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Continuing and Distance Education in both regular and continuing programs responsibly;

Ø  Facilitate the academic affairs supervision and provide support for colleges/faculties/schools/ institutes;

Ø  Facilitate and follow the Academic Program Development;

Ø  Assess college /faculty/ school human power requirements in terms of placement policy, total volume of work, the prevailing staff load and report such issues to the AVP;

Ø  Follow up the implementation of field works and internship activities, and practical attachment works;

Ø  Oversee the implementation of assessment and evaluation of students;

Ø  Facilitate the smooth conduct of the teaching-learning process by monitoring activities which range from summer preparations right through student registration to graduation in all regular, continuing and summer programs;

Ø  Safeguard the quality of education by designing educational quality enhancements plans in collaboration with the Educational Quality Enhancement Directorate and oversee their implementation by units;

Ø  Do everything necessary for the issuance of precise guidelines relating to educational quality management, identify gaps in the teaching-learning process and search for solutions with others;

Ø  Provide the required support and follow up to the endeavours that educational units and staff make to run the academic programs effectively.

Ø  Conduct due follow up to see to it that course syllabi and continuous assessment systems develop;

Ø  Initiate methods, which will help, minimize the wastage of teaching learning time;

Ø  Participate in meetings conducted on the teaching-learning process representing his own Office or that of the AVP in the absence of the latter;

Ø  Take the initiative to oversee and execute student transfer from department to department, college to college, faculty to faculty, school to school, institute to institute, University to University, etc., accordingly to set guidelines;

Ø  Keep up to date records of students, academic staff, administrative staff, technical staff, programs and report such issues to the concerned bodies;

Ø  Organize and submit reports to the AVP periodically;

Ø  Work in consultation with the Office of the AVP to accomplish the duties listed above, and

Ø  Perform such other duties as assigned to him by the AVP.

Ø  Follow up the implementation of curricula and accreditation related activities.

Offices Under Academic Programs Directorate

The following coordinating offices are under the academic programs directorate:

1.      Distance and Continuing Education Officer

2.      Freshman Programs Officer

3.      Teachers’ Development and Continuous Professional Improvement Officer

4.      Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs Officer

 1.    LIST OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

2.     LIST OF POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS

A) Master’s Programs

      I.            College of Engineering

1.            Motor Vehicle engineering

2.            Process Engineering

3.            Mechanical design engineering

4.            Manufacturing and production system engineering

5.            Electrical power engineering

6.            M.Sc. In Food Engineering  

   II.            College of Computing

1.        Information System

2.         Computer Networking & Security

3.         Biostatistics

III.            College of Natural and Computational Science

1.         Botanical Science

2.         Zoological Science

3.         Applied Microbiology

4.         Aquaculture and Fisheries

5.         Organic Chemistry

6.         Analytical Chemistry

7.         Inorganic Chemistry

8.         Nuclear Physics

9.         Solid-state physics

10.     Material Science

11.     Differential Equation

12.     Mathematical Modeling

13.     Sport Management

14.     Algebra stream

15.     Astronomy and Astrophysics

IV.            Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus

1.      MPH in Epidemiology

2.      MPH in Reproductive & Family Health

3.      General Master of Public Health

4.      Health service management

5.      Public health nutrition

6.      Pediatrics &Child Health Nursing

7.      Maternity & Reproductive Health Nursing

8.      Adult Health Nursing

9.      Pharmacology

10.  Medical physiology

11.  Medical macro-biology

12.  Midwifery and women’s health 

13.                     MSc. in Medical  Parasitology and Vector Control

14.                     MSc. in Clinical Pharmacy

15.                     MSc. in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

16.                     MPH in Health Informatics

17.                     Advanced Anesthesia

   V.            College of Agriculture & Natural Resource Science

1.      Agronomy

2.      Plant Protection

3.      Soil Science

4.      Soil and water conservation

5.      Animal Production

6.      Animal Nutrition

7.      Master of veterinary and public health (MVPH)

8.      Horticulture

9.      Dairy Science and Technology

10.  Rural transformation management

11.  Hydrology and water resource management

12.  Climate change and sustainable development

13.  Environmental science

14.  GIS and remote sensing

15.  Agricultural Economics

VI.                     College of Business and Economics

1.         Accounting and Finance

2.         Development Economics

3.         Master of Business Administration (MBA)

4.         Marketing Management

5.         Logistics and Supplies Chain Management

6.         Tourism and Hospitality Management

7.         Project Management

8.         MSc. in Financial Economics

9.         MSc. in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets

VII.                     School of Law

1.      Business and Investment Law

VIII.               College of Social Science & Humanities

1.         TEFL

2.         Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

3.         Urban Development and management

4.         Early childhood development care and education

5.         Developmental Psychology

6.         Special needs and inclusive Education

7.         Teaching Amharic Methdology

8.         History & Heritage Management

9.         Urban Sociology and development

10.     Industrial Psychology

11.     Counseling Psychology

12.     Political Science

13.     Folklore and Ethiopian Literature

IX.            College of Education

1.   Curriculum and Instruction

   X.            Specialty in Medicine

1.     Internal Medicine

2.     General Surgery

3.     Pediatrics and Child Health

4.     Gynecology and Obstetrics

B) PhD Programs

1.     Natural and Computational Science

1.     Mathematical Modeling

2.     Ecological and Systematic Zoology

3.     Applied Algebra

4.     Applied Chemistry

5.     Nuclear Science and Engineering 

2.     Health Science

1.     Public Health / Epidemiology /

2.     PhD. in Midwifery and Women Health

3.     PhD. in Public Health focus on Reproductive  Health

4.     Public Health Nutrition

5.     Nursing

6.     Medical Microbiology

3.     Agriculture and Natural Resources Science

1.     Animal Production

2.     Soil Science

3.     GIS and Remote Sensing

4.     Social Science and Humanities

1.     History and Heritage Management

2.     Teaching English as a Foreign language

5.     Business and Economics

1.     Business Administration

2.     Applied Economics

3.     PhD. in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Lemma Nigussie (PhD)