Hanano University
The idea of an institution for higher learning in Galmudug, goes back to 2014 when Somali intellectuals drew up a plan for the establishment of Hanano Medical Training College (HMTC). By 2019, this plan had grown into a national concept, aimed at providing higher technical education for the state of Galmudug. HMTC officially changed its name to Hanano University of Science and Technology (HUST) on 1st September 2019, after thorough discussion among intellectuals, scholars, and community elders, who recommended the expansion of the university offerings, to cover more higher learning courses, to cover the needs of the community.
HUST is a Private – Public partnership; the university is established in accordance with the education of the federal law of Somalia. The university is devoted to the educational interests and welfare of its Students and members.
As an institution of higher education, Hanano University of science and Technology (HUST) has contributed greatly to the development of Galmudug state. The university, in turn, has benefited much from its location, in the state’s capital, Dhusmareeb, as well as, from the efforts of the state’s diverse population.
Vision
To serve as a centre of academic excellence by providing integrated training, research and services, and therefore, become a leader in addressing the needs and promoting a holistic and sustainable development in the country.
Mission
HUST’s mission is to produce competent graduates, provide need-based community service and produce problem-solving research outputs through innovative and creative education, research and consultancy service to foster social and economic development of the country.
Strategic objectives
1. To prepare competent graduates by providing high quality education.
2. To develop a comprehensive enrolment management plan that serves as a foundation for quality undergraduate education.
3. To establish institutions for health technicians and an academy centre for the pursuit of higher education and studies.
4. Increase the quality and number of graduate students to develop the next generation of scholars and to support the University’s research, scholarship and creative activity.
5. To provide effective and efficient support and facilities to academic missions and maintain a supportive environment for the university community.
6. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a thriving research and economic development enterprise.
7. Develop a multi-level, continuous improvement process that facilitates research, scholarship and creative accomplishments.
8. Establish a regular dialog among the administration, faculty, staff and students that creates a climate of shared understanding and addresses opportunities for and barriers to productivity, scholarship and creative activity.
9. Cultivate, support, sponsor and conduct community-engaged research that enriches our teaching, research and service missions and enhances the University’s designation by Carnegie as a community-engaged institution.
Guiding Principles
HUST is guided by the following core values/principles.
- Excellence: The University upholds excellence as the ruling standard in teaching, research, community service and scholarship, and commits itself to the attainment of the highest standards in academic performance by producing graduates who have knowledge and values appropriate to their future exercise of economic, cultural, and/or social leadership
- Integrity and Honesty: The University promotes honesty, integrity, ethical conduct, justice, fairness, and nurtures a culture of teamwork, collegiality and mutual support among members of the University community.
- Celebrating diversity: The University promotes and honors commonalities and differences in culture, ideas, religion, language, ethnic identity; upholds the principle of gender equality and acknowledges the vital role of every member of the community
- Reliance on Evidence and Authority of Reason: Pronouncement and undertakings of the University shall be founded on reason and evidence.
- Student-centeredness: The University is committed in providing an academically challenging and supportive learning environment that motivates students to be actively engaged in their own learning, decision making, and governance.
- Intolerance to corruption: The University promotes ethical conduct and fights corruption at individual, collective, and institutional levels and inculcates anti-corruption thinking and actions (including time on duty) among the University community.
- Transparency and Accountability: The University is committed to ensure accountability at institutional, group, and individual levels in an effort to implement its functions by openly displaying its scholarly ideas and works to the society.
- Entrepreneurial spirit: The University upholds and instructs the spirit of entrepreneurship among its community.
Our Vision
Our Vision is to serve as a center of academic excellence, by providing integrated training, research and services, and therefore, become a leader in addressing the needs and promoting a holistic and sustainable development in the country.
OUR STAFF
Our Key staff Members play an important role in ensuring we maintain the highest form of excellence.
UNIVERSITY QUICK TOUR
Many activities at the university are centered at ensuring our students receive the best training we can offer.
NO EDUCATION, NO LIGHT.
Education is the key to individual and community liberation from an impoverished life, this is because education is an international recognized currency, in the sense that; Educated communities can earn a living from employment, use their knowledge to develop the well being of their people, and easily share ideas and even trade with people from other countries. This is why we push the idea of having all viable candidates to get educated.
The idea of an institution for higher learning in Galmudug, goes back to 2014 when Somali intellectuals drew up a plan for the establishment of Hanano Medical Training College (HMTC). By 2019, this plan had grown into a national concept, aimed at providing higher technical education for the state of Galmudug. HMTC officially changed its name to Hanano University of Science and Technology (HUST) on 1st September 2019, after thorough discussion among intellectuals, scholars, and community elders, who recommended the expansion of the university offerings, to cover more higher learning courses, to cover the needs of the community.
The university currently takes in Students from Galmudug area as priority, with a vision to empower the locals to gain essential knowledge on areas that are in dire need of attention in the larger Somalia. These include Public health, Medicine and Laboratory technologists.
Our curriculum is similar to what is being offered in all other universities globally, we add a mandatory industrial placement to ensure that our students can apply what they are being taught in practise.
The tuition cost varies from the different courses taken, and the units exempted. If a student is exempted from some subjects, the tuition fees will be lower. The university accepts sponsored students, and payment arrangement will be agreed upon admitting the student.