Aksum University

<p>About Aku</p><p>Aksum is a city in the Northern part of Ethiopia and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_town">county town</a> of origin of civilization with the current population of around 57,000. It is the oldest city and continuously inhabited places in the country as well as in Africa. The city is situated in Central Tigray, Ethiopia, and its geographical coordinates are 14° 7' 47" North, Latitude , 38°43′24″ E 38° 42' 57" East Longitude with an elevation of 2,131 meters (6,991ft).</p><p>Aksum is known worldwide as the possible home of the Ark of the Covenant, in which lie the tablets of law upon which the Ten Commandments are inscribed. It is considered to be the holiest city in Ethiopia which hosts Old and New Cathedrals of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_of_Zion">St. Mary of Zion</a>. The two cathedrals and the chapel of the Ark are an important destination of pilgrimages. Among the significant religious festivals the festivity of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timkat">Timkat</a> (known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28feast%29">Epiphany</a> in Western Christianity) which is celebrated on 19 January (20 January in leap years) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Festival_of_Maryam_Zion&action=edit&redlink=1">Festival of Maryam Zion</a> on November 24.</p><p>Besides, the Stelas in Aksum demonstrate notable examples of the major Aksumite monuments in the town dated from 5000-2000BCE.</p><p>Aksum is rich in archeological heritage sites including the Ezana Stone written in Sabaean, Geez and Ancient Greek, Bazen’s tomb, Queen of Sheba’s Bath, Ta’akha Maryam (4th century), Dungur palaces (6th century), the monasteries of Abba Pentalewon and Abba Liqanos. Aksum archeological sites registered in 1980 by UNESCO as world heritage sites due to their historic value. Currently, Aksum is also known as the home of Aksum University.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Axum_University&action=edit&redlink=1">Aksum University</a> is a public institution founded in May 2006 on a green field site specifically called Sofoho, four kilometers (2.45 miles) South-West from the center of the town. The name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Axum_University&action=edit&redlink=1">Aksum University</a> is named after the city of Aksum. The current area of the university is 107 hectares, with ample room for expansion. The inauguration ceremony was held on 16 February 2007. At the beginning of 2007, the university housed approximately more than 700 undergraduate students who enrolled in five facilities: Social Science and Languages, Agriculture, Business and Economics, Natural and Computational Science and Engineering and Technology in the campus. In 2011, faculty of Agriculture moved to a new campus on TVET Agriculture in Shire.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Axum_University&action=edit&redlink=1">Aksum University</a> has campuses in Aksum and Shire. The university encompasses variety colleges, schools, and institutions which are organized into three campuses: Main, Referral and Shire campuses.</p><p>Main campus hosts College of Social Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Science, College of Business and Economics, College of Engineering and Technology, School of Education and Behavioral Science and Institution of Tourism, Archeology and History. Referral campus, which is nearest to the main campus, includes College of Health Science and Referral Hospital. Finally, Shire Campus hosts College of Agriculture, School of Mining and School of Water Technology.</p><p>The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs like medicine, law, social sciences, languages, natural science, computational science, agriculture and business and economics. Collectively, the colleges, institutions and schools offer 44 Bachelor's programs and 19 Master's programs.</p><p>Enrollment is expanding so rapidly that by 2017, the university has total enrollment of 23405 students from which 12722 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_education">undergraduate students</a> and 139 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_Degree">master's students</a> are registered in regular program, and 9142 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_education">undergraduate students</a> and 1402 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_Degree">master's students</a> are enrolled in continuing education program. The university is also staffed with 1074 academic and 1569 administrative staffs.</p><p>To conclude, Aksum University, under the plan of Ministry of Education is one the ten public higher educational institutions known as Second generation universities in Ethiopia.</p><p>Dr.Merhawi Abreha</p><p>Registrar and Alumni Directorate Director</p><p>Tel: 0347753362</p><p>E-Mail:<a href="mailto:registrar@aku.edu.et">registrar@aku.edu.et</a></p><p>Fax:0347753362</p><p>Block-22,Room-23</p><p>Ato Kahsay G/hiwot</p><p>Students' Service Diectorate Diector</p><p>Tel:0347753344</p><p>Mob:0914188605</p><p>E-Mail:<a href="mailto:Kahsayghiwot@gmail.com">Kahsayghiwot@gmail.com</a></p><p>Fax:0347753344</p><p>Block-53,Room -202</p>