Sport Sciences Academy

Haramaya University, since its establishment in the country as a higher learning Institution, in 1954 E.C. the Department of Sport Science (by its old name Health and Physical Education) was providing the course as common courses for those highly qualified intellectual individuals with the concepts of equipping them Mentally alert, Physically strong & fit, and Socially responsible individuals.

In 1977E.C, the Department started offering Undergraduate (the three years Degree program) Bachelor of Education in Physical Education and Sports preparing staffs mostly for High School Teaching activity. The extensive and rigorous use of scientific principles of the 21st century modern concepts of Sport Sciences disciplines and the Educational Policy of the Country as a whole has made the Department to take the initiative in proposing a new postgraduate program of Master of Science in Coaching and Therapy.
Therefore, as of this Academic year we have already launched M.Sc. program in the above mentioned field of science