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Jigjiga University (Jaamacadda Jigjiga), Somali Region of Ethiopia
Jigjiga University is a public Ethiopian university in Jigjiga, capital of the Somali Region, founded in 2007 with 714 students. It now has eight colleges, a referral hospital and an Institute of Somali Language and Literature Studies. It reports 722 academic staff and 23,204 graduates from 2009 to 2017.
In short
Jigjiga University (JJU) is a public university in Jigjiga (Jijiga), capital of the Somali Region of Ethiopia, 635 km from Addis Ababa (Wikipedia). It was one of 13 new government universities founded in Ethiopia at that time (same source).
How it grew
- 2007: opened with 714 students (Wikipedia).
- 2008: about 1,500 students (same source).
- 2009: about 2,800 students (same source).
- Today: an intake capacity of 21,379, and 23,204 graduates between 2009 and 2017, by the university's own figures (Jigjiga University).
The Faculty of Law was formed in 2004, before the university, and planned its first graduates for July 2009 (Wikipedia). It took about 60 regular students a year and more than 500 working students in summer courses (same source).
Colleges, schools and institutes
The university lists (Jigjiga University):
- Colleges: Institute of Technology; Medicine and Health Science; Dryland Agriculture; Education and Behavioural Studies; Veterinary Medicine; Business and Economics; Social Sciences and Humanities; Natural and Computational Science.
- Schools: Law; Psychology; Graduate Studies.
- Institute: Somali Language and Literature Studies.
Somali Language and Literature Studies
The Institute of Somali Language and Literature Studies opened at the start of 2006 in the Ethiopian calendar, which is 2013 to 2014 (Jigjiga University, ISLLS). It offers a degree in regular, summer and evening (extension) modes (same source). About 46 students graduated in its first class, which the university calls the first degree-level graduates in the history of Somali language study (same source).
Its research covers (same source):
- an inventory of the Somali Region's heritage
- traditional dry-season grazing among Somali herders
- traditional Somali marriage practices
- the oral literature of herders and farmer-herders
It has trained Af-Somali teachers in Fafan zone and held a symposium on links between Somali and Amharic (same source).
Staff and facilities
JJU reports 722 academic staff, 53 expatriate staff and 758 non-teaching staff, with 168 staff housing units (Jigjiga University). It runs a referral hospital and research sites for poultry, farming and a plant nursery (same source).
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Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Jigjiga University · jju.edu.et
- Jigjiga University, ISLLS · jju.edu.et
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