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The Edna Adan Hospital has long been devoted to the education and development of health care professionals in Somaliland. When Edna Adan Ismail returned to her native Somaliland after a career with the World Health Organization, she found a grave health situation endangering the lives of many women and children. As the result of Somaliland’s thirty-year struggle for independence from Somalia, much of the Hargeisa infrastructure was in ruins and the majority of trained professionals who had previously staffed the health and educational services were gone.

As Edna started to build her hospital, she also opened the Edna Adan Nursing and Midwifery School, the first institution to re-start training health workers in 2000. Since that time, many midwives, nurses, and anaesthetists have been trained.

Based on the success of these programs and to meet the demand for skilled medical workers in the Horn of Africa region, it was determined that a university with a full degree program should be developed. The Edna Adan University (EAU) was established in 2010 and admitted its first class of 27 juniors, mostly recruited from the post-basic midwifery curriculum. In affiliation with the University of Hargeisa, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by the Tropical Health Education Trust(THET), the degree program opened with just one full time faculty member.

The university has continued to expand its degree programs and establish new faculties. The current faculties include: Nursing, Midwifery, Medicine & Surgery, Medical Laboratory, Pharmacology, Anesthesia, Dental Technology, Public Health and Veterinary Medicine.

Edna Adan Ismail remains involved in the university as its Chancellor. In 2014, Professor Mohamed Hussein Osman became president and has been working to expand the university, including the construction of a new three-story university building, the establishment of a new e-Library and a printing press for printing text books and other materials. The new university building will open in 2017 and Bachelor degrees and diplomas in additional disciplines will be opened for study.

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Vision

Edna Adan University will be preeminent in:

· Offering higher accredited academic education

· Enhancing the knowledge, skills, competence and attitudes so that students may become future teachers and change makers in their profession.

· Educating graduates to be exemplary leaders in a diverse society

· Advancing innovative models of education, and

· Creating and translating knowledge to improve the quality of life through distinctive programs of research.

Mission

In partnership with the communities we serve as well as academic institutions, to address the needs of the society, the mission of the Edna Adan University is to produce competent professionals at graduate levels with academic excellence through the integration of teaching, practice and research.

University Goals

1. Train competent and responsible professionals who can address the community’s problems.

2. Promote the philosophy of Community Based Education (CBE) with the aim of bringing about palpable change in the community through their active participation and with inter sectoral collaboration.

3. Contribute to societal development by training responsible professionals in the value of high-quality performance and relevant research.

4. Promote the principle of educational equity which takes into consideration the cultural and religious sensitivities of the nation irrespective of ethnicity, sex and political affiliations.

5. Promote women’s participation in all spheres of development.

6. Strengthen partnerships and linkages with local and international institutions for the purpose of rendering high quality training, applied research and services.

7. Develop sound organizational and management systems for the accomplishment of its objectives.

8. Address core strategic issues that most effect the people of Somaliland in all aspects of the university’s activity, especially HIV/AIDS and FGM counselling.

9. Generate and disseminate knowledge relevant to health and other disciplines.

10. Advance and encourage scholars.

11. Provide advanced health care in a variety of settings in accordance with the standards set for this level.

12. Influence the health care delivery system to be responsive to a multicultural and global society.

13. Foster individual development through a commitment to lifelong learning.

University Programs

no	University Programs	Duration	Tuition Fees
1	Bachelor of Science in Information Technology	4 years	220$
2	Bachelor of Accounting	4 years	220$
3	Bachelor in Science in Midwifery	4 years	300$
4	Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering	4 years	220$
5	Bachelor of Business Administration	4 years	220$
6	Bachelor of Pharmacy	4 years	300$
7	Bachelor of Science In Medical Laboratory Technology	4 years	300$
8	Bachelor of Public Health	4 years	300$
9	Bachelor of Science in Nursing	4 years	300$