Hawassa University (HU) is one of the first-generation universities in Ethiopia whose establishment was laid as Awassa College of Agriculture (ACA) in 1976 with the admission of 217 students. It was later restructured and promoted to a university in 2000, named ???Debub University??? with the merger of ACA and two other colleges in southern Ethiopia: Wondogenet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, established in 1978; and Dilla College of Teachers??? Education and Health Sciences, established in 1996. In 2006, it was renamed ???Hawassa University??? with the addition of its main campus in Hawassa, and Dilla College of Teacher???s Education and Health Sciences evolved to a separate university on its own.