Asossa University

Assosa University was established in 2011 committed to advance teaching learning activities, need based research and community service. It is located 675 km north west of Addis Ababa at Asossa town which is the capital city of Benishngul Gumuz Regional State. The University started its function with five faculties and seventeen departments by admitting the first batch of 1043, regular students which are assigned to these five Faculties. Namely:- Engineering and Technology ,Natural and Computational Sciences, Agriculture and Natural Resource ,Business and Economics, and Social Sciences and Humanity faculties.

In 2013 Academic year, the University continued its teaching learning process accepting 1084 new students with five faculties and 19 departments. In addition to the regular session the University launched evening and week- end program in three faculties and 11 departments with 447 students.