Jimma Institute of Technology (JiT)

The establishment of the FoT can be traced back to 1997(1990 E.c) when the government decided to expand the then Jimma institute of Healthy science (founded in 1983) beyond healthy fields and upgrade it into a full fledged university with the opening of faculty of technology and faculty of business and economics. Upon its establishment, the faculty consists of three departments namely civil Engineering Department, Electrical Engineering Department and Mechanical Engineering Department. The first batch graduates from the regular program appeared in 2002. Currently the institution has five main Faculties and two schools: Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Chemical Engineering. The institute has undergraduate, masters and PhD programs in different disciplines. JiT is a unique instituti...