Executive director’s message

Dear audiences, students, and staff, it gives me a great pleasure to welcome you all to the website of Bensa Daye Campus, Hawassa University. The campus has begun its teaching learning activities in November 2018 with 314 regular students. Since then, Bensa Daye Campus has been delivering its part on teaching-learning, research and community services.

Bensa Daye campus has eight regular bachelor degree programs which include Agro-economics, Agri-Business and Value Chain Management and Plant Science, Biology, Physics and Mathematics; English Language and Literature and Computer Science.

Bensa Daye area is one of the specialty coffee growing areas of our country and the campus is foreseeing to strengthen its research and technology transferring capabilities to support the community’s productivity through its engagement and delivering competent and skilled graduates. Bensa Daye area is also known for its geological wealth that needs to be understood more and exploited for the benefit of the local communities and our country at large. In line with this, the campus is planning to expand its programs in the areas of Geology and Mining to produce skilled and competent graduates having deep practical knowledge and skills in their fields. Based on the demands and needs from work market, the campus also would like to expand its undergraduate programs in the areas of Agriculture, Business and Economics, Health Sciences, Technology and Natural and Computational Sciences. Furthermore, the campus is also planning to step by step commence graduate programs in the areas of Agriculture, Natural and Computational Science and Social Sciences among others to strengthen our University’s Differentiation direction and plans.

The vision of Bensa Daye Campus emanates from that of our University, to be one of the Best Universities in Africa. As one of the young campuses in our university, Bensa Daye campus have lots of aspirations an inspirations and would like to call our existing and prospective students to join us with enthusiasm in your fields of interest.