Bahir Dar University is a public university in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, founded in 2001.
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Bahir Dar University (BDU) is a public university in Bahir Dar, in Ethiopia's Amhara Region, on the southern shore of Lake Tana. It was established in 2000 by merging the Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute (founded in 1963) and the Bahir Dar Teachers' College.
BDU includes the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, the Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, the Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute, and colleges of agriculture and environmental sciences, medicine and health sciences, business and economics, education, science, social sciences and law.
Teaching is in English. Students are placed through Ethiopia's national examination results.
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Bahir Dar University was founded in 2001.
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