Arba Minch University

Arba Minch University (AMU) is a university in south-west Ethiopia. It was founded as the Arba Minch Water Technology Institute (AWTI) and was inaugurated as a full university in June 2004. AMU is one of Ethiopia's National Research Universities and has more than 24,000 students in remedial, first-degree, second-degree and doctoral programmes.

Undergraduate and graduate teaching is organised in the following units:

• Arba Minch Institute of Water Technology
• Arba Minch Institute of Technology
• Colleges of Agriculture, Business and Economics, Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities
• School of Behavioral and Pedagogical Sciences and School of Law
• Sawla Campus, a multidisciplinary campus

The School of Graduate Studies, established in 2002, offers MA, MSc, MPH, LLM and PhD programmes. It is extending its e-learning and off-campus delivery so that working professionals can study for advanced degrees, and runs field-based programmes in engineering, water resources, public health, agriculture and business linked to the Rift Valley region. Current research projects include water and environmental research and land rehabilitation around Lake Abaya, with international partners such as KfW.