College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

About The College

The College of Agriculture & natural resources is the founding entity for Mizan-Tepi University and will continue to represent the founding mission and vision of the university. The College was established in 1999 E.C. holding less than 100 undergraduate students in two departments in undergraduate program in 1999 EC.

The college recognizes that today’s world is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous and the college also recognizes that it can survive by being flexible, agile, innovative, and responsive. College of agriculture and natural resources cannot simply extrapolate trends – the future is highly uncertain and the college needs to understand and learn to function in such times. Thus, stakeholder’s analysis as well as internal and external environmental scanning is highly imperative to understand the changing environment and it will be our future focus. Now days the college has Nine Departments and Eight post graduate programs. Currently, the college enrolled nine hundred fourteen students of which seven hundred sixty-seven in under graduate and one hundred forty-five in post graduate programs.

Regarding to the staff profiles our college has a total of one hundred thirty-four academic staffs, two Graduate assistants, ninety-one lecturers, thirteen assistant professors and nine PhD staffs on duty and nineteen staffs on MSc and PhD study leave. In addition, our college has 14 academic supportive staffs.

Wondeson  Wondimu (Assistant Professor)

MSc in Agronomy

Dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

E-mail: wondu770@gmail.com

Mobile phone : 0910067598

  • Mizan Tepi University college of agriculture and natural resources aspires, to be the leading college among the comprehensive universities being center of excellence in education and research in area of natural resources conservation and utilization

  • The mission of College of Agricultural and natural resources is to discover, integrate, translate, and disseminate knowledge to enhance natural resources and environmental stewardship, and economic and social well-being, thereby improving the lives of the nation through high quality education and interdisciplinary research solving complex societal problems.

  • Excellence - Passionately pursuing excellence and innovation across all functions, using a team approach for solving complex societal prob­lems to serve of the local communities and to an increasingly complex global society.

    Diversity - Fostering diversity, multicultural understanding, and an atmosphere of mutual respect.

     Integrity and ethics - Demonstrating integrity, honesty, openness, shared responsi­bility, and mutual accountability.

    Practicality - Engaging students and stakeholders through experiential learning and problem solving.

     Sustainability - Stewarding resources responsibly and sustainably.

    Care for staff - Nurturing personal and professional growth and development.

    Participatory -

Our Programs

Postgraduate Programs

  • MSc in Animal Genetics and Breeding
  • Agricultural Economics
  • MSc in Environmental Sciences
  • MSc in Forest Management and Climatic Change
  • MSc in Agronomy
  • Plant Pathology
  • MSc in General Horticulture

Undergraduate Programs

  • Agricultural Economics
  • Agribusiness and Value Chain Management
  • Animal Science
  • Environmental Science
  • Forestry Science
  • Horticulture
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Plant Science
  • Veterinary Science