Rift Valley University College

Rift Valley University College is a college in Ethiopia.

'The Coming In to Being of RVUC'

When the first eager students set foot on the campus in Adama in October 2000, they beheld a very different setting from the beautifully manicured grounds with one modern building, and a number of blocks that house administrative offices, laboratories, libraries and quite a number of classrooms students see today. Ato Dinku Deyasa, a renowned investor and owner of NFYD PLC, Dr. Haileleul Zeleke (Asst. Professor) and Ato Frezewed Lemma (lecturer) from Adama University (the then Nazareth Technical Teachers’ College) and two other individuals: Ato Reta Bekele, a lawyer and Ato Mulugete Debebe, a management professional envisaged the necessity of founding a private higher education institution mainly aimed at curbing the country’s dearth of qualified human resources. These five persons founded the college in September 2000. Needs analysis was conducted to identify the fields of study most wanted by the community in and around Adama and Asella towns. On the basis of the findings, the founders made all the necessary preparations Bold textthat would enable them to begin offering courses at diploma level in five fields of study – namely, Accounting, Computer Science, Law, Marketing Management, and Secretarial Science and Office Management.

The Rift Valley College, as the institution was formerly known, began operations in October 2000 in Adama Town, with a capital of 1,300,000 Birr, a total number of 154 evening program students, and five part time faculty staff. The Asella branch campus was created two months later with Accounting, Law and Marketing Management being the fields of study. This new "learning community" was housed in just one rented block that consisted of a single administrative office and a few classrooms; by the end of the year 2001, total enrolment at the two centers was about 250 students in the five diploma programs of study.

In September 2002 and 2003, Gotera and Ziway branch campuses came into being respectively in 2004; the institution was raised to the status of a University College and was empowered to grant the bachelor’s degree. The first degrees in Accounting and Business Management were awarded in August 2006. Bishoftu campus was created two years later followed by two other branch campuses – namely, Dire Dawa and Chiro, which went functional in August/September 2005. Bole and Gulele came into being in August 2006. Harar campus, the youngest of all branch campuses, was created in October 2006.

Contents 1 Branches of Rift Valley University College 2 List of Departments 2.1 Degree program(regular & extension) 2.2 Diploma Program (regular & extension) 2.3 Distance Education

Branches of Rift Valley University College As its strategic plan of RVUC shows, it has above 16,000 students in the various programs in the following campuses:

1.Finfine - there are two campuses: Gulele Branch and Gotera Branch 2.Bishoftu 3.Adama 4.Asella 5.Shashemene 6.Baatu (ziway) 7.Chiro (ciroo) 8.Dire Dawa 9.Harar 10.Neqemte

List of Departments

Degree program(regular & extension) •Business Management •Accounting •Law •Clinical Nursing •Afan Oromoo

Diploma Program (regular & extension) •Clinical Nursing •Pharmacy •Laboratory Technology •Human resource management •Salesmanship •Marketing Management •Accounting •Building technology •Information Technology •Community Development •Cooperative Marketing •Law •Teachers Education •Secretarial science & office Management

Distance Education •Diploma program •Law •Human Resource management •Purchasing & supplies Management •Social science •Natural science •Mathematics •Language (Afan oromo,English & Amharic)