1. Background
College of Agriculture has been established since the inception of Wolaita Sodo University,1999, at Faculty level. It started teaching learning processes with three departments: Animal and Range Sciences, Natural Resource Management and Crop Science and Horticulture.Eventually, the college has been expanded both in terms of programs and staff composition.Currently, the college hosts 7 department departments under which both graduate andundergraduate programs are being offered in different modalities.In addition to teaching learning processes, the college has been keenly engaged in conductingdemand based researches and offering many community services. Dairy farm, beef and pigfarms have been established to attach theoretical teaching with practices.
2. Vision and Mission of COA
Vision of COA
• To be one of the top five Agriculture College in Ethiopian universities and center ofexcellence by 2020
Mission of COA
Offering relevant, quality education and training; conducting demand driven researchand rendering accessible community services in the area of agriculture
College of Agriculture is among the colleges which were opened during the university establishment in 2007. Since then teaching learning, research and community services activities are being undertaken in the college. Currently, the college is running seven (07) undergraduate, nine (9) graduate programs, and one (1) PhD programs.
Academic Staff Profile of the College
|
No |
Academic rank |
Male |
Female |
Total |
Remark |
|
1 |
Professor |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
2 |
Associate Professor |
2 |
- |
2 |
|
|
3 |
Assistant Professor |
29 |
3 |
32 |
|
|
4 |
Lecturer |
44 |
8 |
52 |
|
|
5 |
TA |
21 |
1 |
22 |
|
|
6 |
Total |
96 |
12 |
108 |
|
Staff on Study Leave
|
Level of study |
Sex |
|
|
|||
|
|
Male |
Female |
Total |
Remark |
||
|
MSc |
1 |
6 |
7 |
|
||
|
PhD |
22 |
3 |
25 |
|
||
|
Total |
32 |
|
||||
Expatriate Staff Profile of WSU
|
s. n |
Academic rank |
Male |
Female |
Total |
Remark |
||
|
1 |
Professor |
1 |
- |
1 |
|
||
|
2 |
Associate Professor |
2 |
- |
2 |
|
||
|
Total |
3 |
|
|||||
Students Profile of College of Agriculture, 2010 E.C.
BSc Regular
|
Department |
1st year |
2nd year |
3rd year |
Total |
||||||||||
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
||
|
Plant Science |
25 |
35 |
60 |
26 |
35 |
61 |
15 |
38 |
53 |
66 |
108 |
174 |
||
|
NaRM |
21 |
33 |
54 |
14 |
46 |
60 |
26 |
22 |
48 |
61 |
101 |
162 |
||
|
Animal and Range Science |
20 |
37 |
57 |
29 |
31 |
60 |
20 |
19 |
39 |
69 |
87 |
156 |
||
|
Horticulture |
17 |
36 |
53 |
25 |
35 |
60 |
22 |
15 |
37 |
64 |
86 |
150 |
||
|
ABVM |
17 |
29 |
46 |
27 |
34 |
61 |
21 |
20 |
41 |
65 |
83 |
148 |
||
|
RDAE |
33 |
25 |
58 |
36 |
26 |
62 |
24 |
13 |
37 |
93 |
64 |
157 |
||
|
Agro-economics |
24 |
37 |
61 |
41 |
22 |
63 |
14 |
24 |
38 |
79 |
83 |
162 |
||
|
Total |
1109 |
|||||||||||||
BSc Weekend
|
Department |
1st year |
2nd year |
3rd year |
4th year |
Total |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
|||||
|
Plant Science |
35 |
28 |
63 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35 |
28 |
63 |
|||||
|
NaRM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
21 |
42 |
63 |
32 |
53 |
85 |
53 |
95 |
148 |
|||||
|
Agro-economics |
75 |
66 |
138 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 |
66 |
138 |
|||||
|
Total |
349 |
|||||||||||||||||||
BSc Summer
|
Department |
1st year |
2nd year |
3rd year |
4th year |
5th year |
Total |
|||||||||||||
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
|
|
Plant Science |
|
|
40 |
|
|
44 |
|
|
38 |
|
|
65 |
|
|
128 |
|
|
315 |
|
|
NaRM |
|
|
|
31 |
2 |
33 |
43 |
4 |
48 |
28 |
3 |
31 |
54 |
8 |
62 |
156 |
18 |
174 |
|
|
ArSC |
|
|
|
21 |
16 |
37 |
30 |
12 |
42 |
16 |
5 |
31 |
76 |
11 |
87 |
143 |
44 |
187 |
|
|
Total |
676 |
||||||||||||||||||
Postgraduate Programs
MSc Regular
|
Department |
|
1st year |
2nd year |
Total |
|||||||||
|
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
|||
|
Plant Science |
Agronomy |
6 |
- |
6 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
1 |
10 |
|||
|
Plant Breeding |
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
||||
|
NaRM |
Watershed mgt |
8 |
1 |
9 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
12 |
3 |
15 |
|||
|
Animal and Range Science |
Animal Nutrition |
|
|
|
6 |
3 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
9 |
|||
|
Animal Production |
4 |
- |
4 |
|
|
|
4 |
- |
4 |
||||
|
Horticulture |
Horticulture |
3 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
|||
|
RDAE |
RDP |
3 |
- |
3 |
5 |
1 |
6 |
8 |
1 |
9 |
|||
|
Gender and Development |
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
||||
|
Total |
60 |
||||||||||||
MSc Weekend
|
Department |
|
1st year |
2nd year |
Total |
|||||||||||
|
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
|||||
|
RDAE |
RDP |
14 |
1 |
15 |
9 |
- |
9 |
23 |
9 |
32 |
|||||
|
Gender and Development |
2 |
1 |
3 |
- |
|
|
2 |
1 |
3 |
||||||
|
PLSc |
Agronomy |
3 |
- |
3 |
They are 3rd batch (2008 E.C batch) |
- |
3 |
||||||||
|
ARSc |
Animal Nutrition |
3 |
1 |
4 |
|
4 |
|||||||||
|
Total |
42 |
||||||||||||||
PhD in Livelihood and Poverty Reduction
|
Department |
1st year |
2nd year |
3rd year |
4th year |
Total |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
M |
F |
T |
|||||
|
RDAE, PLR |
3 |
- |
3 |
2 |
- |
2 |
4 |
- |
4 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
12 |
1 |
13 |
|||||
|
Total Summary
|
13 |
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Contact:-
Asrat Worku Jarsa
Asst Professor of Development Studies
email--asishw268@gmail.com
