Admas University (
Amharic
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: አድማስ ዩኒቨርሲቲ) is a
tertiary higher education institution based in
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; ,) is the capital city of Ethiopia, as well as the regional state of Oromia. With an estimated population of 2,739,551 inhabitants as of the 2007 census, it is the largest city in the country and the List of cities in Africa b ...
,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
. It was established in 1998.
Overview
The Admas University is accredited by Regional Educational Bureaus, Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency (HERQA), and the Federal Ministry of Education of Ethiopia. It offers both on-campus education and distance learning in various programs. These courses are in turn offered at a number of levels: certificate, diploma and degree.
The University has also started many e-Learning programs to develop the Ethiopian Higher Educational System. To reach these goals, it is currently working in partnership with institutions such as
Cisco
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and the
University of Lübeck
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General
The university has a Faculty of Medicine and a Faculty of Technology a ...
in
Germany
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.
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Admas has additional branches in Hargeisa
Hargeisa ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland, a ''List of states with limited recognition, de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia. It is also th ...
and Garowe
Garowe (, ,[Somaliland
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and the autonomous Puntland
Puntland is an autonomous state that considers itself to be part of Somalia, despite not accepting the legitimacy of Somalia's current governing administration. It was formed in 1998, and was a federal member state of Somalia from its fou ...
region of Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...
, respectively.
See also
* List of universities and colleges in Ethiopia
This is a list of universities and colleges in Ethiopia. It includes both public and private institutions.
There are 5 private universities and 659 private colleges of higher education in Ethiopia. Public higher education institutions are catego ...
* Education in Ethiopia
Education in Ethiopia was dominated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for many centuries until secular education was adopted in the early 1900s. Prior to 1974, Ethiopia had an estimated literacy rate below 50% and compared poorly with the rest of ...
References
Universities and colleges in Ethiopia
Universities and colleges established in 1998
1998 establishments in Ethiopia
Education in Addis Ababa
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