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THE FEATURE

- UNIVERSITY PLIGHT

- HUMAN CAPITAL - I

- HUMAN CAPITAL - II

Until recent changes brought about a new cropping of private colleges almost all higher education centers in Ethiopia were public owned. They are charged to "cultivate, expand and transmit knowledge, provide professional services at regional and national levels with a view to accelerating social and economic development and to conduct research and studies in different fields that will help in solving societies' problems and disseminate fruitful results."

I. Public Institutions

1. Universities

   Addis Ababa University

   Alemaya University 

   Bahr Dar University 

   Debub University

   Jimma University

   Mekele University

2. Other Colleges & Institutions

   Ambo College of Agriculture

   Arba Minch College of Water Technology

   Biodiversity Institute

   Commercial College of Addis Ababa

   Ethiopian Institute of Geological Surveys

   Ethiopian Nutrition Institute

   Gonder College of Medical Science

   Institute of Agricultural Research

   Institute of Sustainable Development

   International Livestock Research Institute

   Kotoebe Teachers' Education College

   National Environmental Protection Agency

   National Research Institute of Health

   Theological College of the Holy Trinity

 II. Private Institutions

A number of private colleges have come to existence in the last three years, and some like a vocational college in Woldya town in Wollo being built by the Ethiopian business tycoon Shiek Mohamed Al- Amoudi are still in the making. 

   Unity College -Addis Ababa

   Alfa College of Distance Education -Harar

   People to People College -Harar

   Awasa Adventist College -Awasa