Having established and started teaching
learning with 300 students in 2018, the College of Business
and Economics has a record of more
than 8 years of service as higher teaching learning, research and community
service institution within Werabe University, and it is one of the colleges which
have been established at the very beginning in the University. The mission of
the college is to accomplish the pillars: teaching and learning, research and
community services in line with the priority areas of the higher institution, the
nation and worldwide. The College has organized itself under six departments and
offers Bachelor of degree as well as Master’s degree teaching in both regular
and extension including summer programs. These departments include Accounting
and Finance, Economics, Management, Marketing Management, Public Administration
& Development Management, and Tourism and Hotel Management. Currently, the college has been delivering
quality teaching and learning service with a total of 1,259 students
and 75 staff, doing theme-based research as well as demand-driven community
service.
Business
and economics affects/touches the lives of every individual throughout the
world. To answer pressing needs of ever-increasing population, it is committed
to produce sufficient and competent professionals who can contribute for accounting,
financing, banking, natural resource nurturing, analysis of production,
distribution and productivity of goods and services, efficiency, public administration, management and administrative
theories, leadership, marketing and value chain, tourism and hotel
management as well as related fields using fixed natural resources.
With the expansion of higher
education and the need for highly skilled and specialized manpower in the
country, the college has a plan to launch other undergraduate and postgraduate
programs so that increase its intake capacity of students to get access to
different programs. And also, it has a plan to do more on human resource
development such as continuous professional development by giving additional
training and sending its staffs to different higher education institutions
across the world for further education. In a similar manner, it will continue
to give more and valuable community, including outreach, services, and create academic
strategic linkages to work in collaboration with national and international stakeholders
for better. We continue to improve providing quality education, conducting
research and engaging with the community to achieve the vision and missions of the
college, the University and the country to support national development.
Strategic Focus areas:-
The
college shares the focus areas of the university as follows.
¬ Learning
and Teaching
¬ Research
and Development
¬ Community Engagement
¬ Leadership and Institutional Transformation
Areas of Excellence;- The college excels in the areas
of:
v Business
and Economics
v Tourism
Location of the College
The college is found
within the main campus of the university, which is located at Werabe town administration
in Siltie Zone, Central Ethiopia Regional State, of which is 172 kilometers
away from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is an emerging town with adequate
infrastructure, amenities, and public utilities. Climatically, the town is well
cherished with moderate type of temperature and rainfall, which makes it so
conducive and habitable. The University’s geographical proximity to the federal
capital, the nearby natural landscape and tourist attraction sites and the
friendly approach and sociability of the residents of the town and the
surrounding community makes the university environment so ideal and appealing
to many to join and to do well for life.
Vision:
Being one of the best colleges from the
five best comprehensive
universities in Ethiopia by 2022 E.C.
Mission: Delivering
quality education, conducting demand-driven research and providing valuable community
services so that improving the wellbeing of the country through creation of
knowledge, skill, and attitude of graduates.
Goal
The goal of the college is to produce
sufficient and competent graduates so that supplying skilled, astute with
business acumen, and socially responsible manpower for the country and even the
globe in their respective fields.
Core values
The core values of
the university are shared.
Academic freedom
Quality and Excellence
Commitment
Integrity
Team work Spirit
Unity in diversity
Lifelong learning
Internationalization
Professionalism
Fighting for Corruption
Good Governance and Stewardship
Recognizing Excellent Works
Slogan of the University: Knowledge for Excellence!”