Wachemo University is located near the town of Hosaina, Ethiopia. A second campus was opened at Durame in 2018.
It was founded in 2009,
It offers 21 undergraduate options, 55 master's courses and doctorates in education leadership and policy studies and soil science.
There are faculties of engineering and technology, natural and computer science, media and health, agricultural science, business and economics, education and behavioural sciences, law and social sciences and humanities.
It has an agricultural statistics training programme in conjunction with the Ministry of Statistical Services and Education.
It has also played a prominent role in the national treeplanting programme which aims to plant 600 million seedlings across Ethiopia.