Message from Vice President

Debre Birhan University Business and Development Vice President Office is one of the four vice president offices established in the university by the year 2009 E.C. The office is established to assist and support the main pillars of the university, which are teaching and learning services, research and community services, administrative services and business development services by providing efficient and economical infrastructures in the university.

The office is structured with two main directorate offices which are construction project office and business incubation directorate under the auspices of the university. It is the main office of the university that is working together as a team and taking various suggestions from the community as an input. Since its establishment, a number of buildings and infrastructures have been completed such as Waste water treatment plant and Sewerage systems, Domestic water development and distribution system, Administrative office building, Postgraduate building, Auditorium (Students’ graduation hall), Agricultural research buildings, Students’ clinic, Soil research laboratory building, Storm water drainage canal and other infrastructure are the main ones completed for the Main Campus. Recently, on the compound of the former prison of North Shoa Zone, various buildings like the Administration office, Library, Classrooms, Dormitories, full ICT Infrastructure (data center, smart board for classrooms, digital signage, CCTV system, server-based teaching and learning platform, etc) and other necessary infrastructure facilities have been completed, and the first and the only new campus of the university, named as Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus has been opened for service. Beresa river bridge (24m wide and 40m long) has been constructed to connect the main campus and Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus is completed and opened for traffic. In addition, Hakim Gizaw Memorial hospital which is aimed to serve as a teaching hospital for the health science students has been completed and ready for use by the zonal and university community since May 9, 2022.

Preparations are underway to open a new campus for institute of technology at the birth place of Emperor Menelik II, called Angolela under Basona Worana Woreda District, which is 8.2km away from Debre Birhan City on the road to Mendida. From the campus main projects, 5 Lots with a total of 13 different buildings and fence work are under construction. In addition to this, Campus masterplan and all other remaining buildings and infrastructure design works are being carried out to complete within a short period of time.

Parallelly, the first round of constructions are under construction to open Mehal Meda Highland Agriculture and Tourism Center at Mehal Meda town of North Shoa Zone which is 152 Kilo meters away from Debre Birhan City and efforts are being made to start the center after a year. On the other hand, preparations are underway to restructure the Business Incubation Center with required manpower and available resources so as to create and promote new business innovations developed by graduates, university staff, the local community and others. Finally, I express our readiness to fulfill our responsibilities together with the entire leadership and staff of the university and our commitment to complete the already started projects and the new projects that we will start in the future based on quality, cost and allocated time frame.

I thank you!

Yeshareg Getaneh (PhD)

Vice President of Business and Development Office