Baidoa International University was established in 2015 by a group of Somali scholars and intellectuals, in order to ensure that young people in the South West of Somalia would be properly educated. They achieved their aim: today, fewer students from the region now travel to other areas of the country for their higher education than they did before the university opened.
There are six faculties: medicine and health science; economics and management science; agriculture and veterinary science; computer science and technology; Sharia and law; and education. Faculties are located either in Baidoa, a city roughly 250km from the Somali capital of Mogadishu, or on a second campus, in the town of Berdaale, just under 100km from Baidoa.
