Menelik II Medical and Health Science College

Health and medical education

Menelik II is a dedicated health science college. It does not appear to train doctors. Its website lists three schools: Allied Health Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery, and Public Health. None of them has a medicine department. The college is not in the World Directory of Medical Schools. One third-party directory (the IPHC-E Knowledge Hub) mentions "innovative medicine" among its programmes, but nothing on the college's own site supports that. If you want to become a doctor, ask the college directly before you apply. The college's stated vision is to become a "Hospital University College" by 2034.

Nursing and midwifery

The School of Nursing and Midwifery is the largest school. It reports 859 students and 65 academic staff across eight undergraduate programmes:

• Comprehensive nursing (235 enrolled)
• Paediatrics nursing
• Neonatal nursing
• Surgical nursing
• Emergency and critical-care nursing
• Operation-theatre nursing
• Psychiatry nursing (110 enrolled)
• Midwifery (98 enrolled)

It also runs a postgraduate programme in integrated clinical and community mental health. Students practise in simulation labs and do clinical placements in affiliated hospitals and health centres.

Allied health sciences

The School of Allied Health Sciences became a separate school in 2024/25. It has seven departments. Pharmacy is the biggest, with 410 students. The others are medical laboratory science (226), medical radiologic technology (199), anaesthesia (144), health informatics (50), medical radiotherapy technology (9) and biomedical science. Biomedical science teaches other programmes and showed no students of its own.

Public health

The School of Public Health has four postgraduate departments: health service management, monitoring and evaluation, public health nutrition, and epidemiology and biostatistics. It also runs an undergraduate post-basic BSc in Family Health. Its MPH programmes run in two modes: regular (two years) and weekend (three years). The school's own page gives two sets of figures: "over 400 students" and about 40 academic staff in its overview, and 518 students and 44 staff in its snapshot. The Postgraduate Directorate also runs an MSc in Medical Microbiology. MPH applicants need a first degree in a health field, biology or medicine. Postgraduate selection uses the national NGAT test and/or departmental exams, and government-sponsored applicants get priority based on Addis Ababa Health Bureau needs.

History of health training

Menelik II is one of Ethiopia's older health schools. It was founded in 1949 as the Auxiliary Health Science Training School and later became Menelik II Nursing School. In 1997 it added certificate programmes in junior clinical nursing, public health, midwifery, medical laboratory, pharmacy and radiography. In 2008 it was upgraded to Menelik II Health Science College. In 2015 it launched its first degrees, in nursing, medical laboratory technology, medical radiology technology and midwifery. In April 2024, allAfrica reported a graduation of 300 health professionals "in various health fields".

Accreditation and rankings

Menelik II is not on any EduRank or uniRank list, and none of its programmes was on the ETA's online accreditation register when we checked in November 2026. That register held only 13 records nationwide.

The institution

The college is a public institution of the Addis Ababa City Administration. It was re-established under the city's Proclamation 153/15 through the Addis Ababa Health Bureau. In 2019 it merged into Kotebe Metropolitan University, which was renamed Kotebe University of Education in 2020. Because the two institutions' missions diverged, the college separated again in January 2023. It now has its own Senate.

The registrar reports more than 2,500 active students and more than 5,000 alumni records. One page of the website says "25000+ total students", which looks like a typo. The campus is on Russia Street in Yeka Sub-City, near Jan Meda. Offices are open Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00.

Admission: regular undergraduate places go to school leavers with the required national exam results. The college also takes continuing-education and TVET graduates who pass its entrance assessments. Its Senate legislation provides for affirmative action for women, students with disabilities and students from disadvantaged areas. Admission letters come with the fee structure. We found no published tuition figures.

The college has a Continuous Professional Development unit and an institutional research ethics committee. It also runs a Team Training Program (TTP), community-based training and OSCE directorate that organises students' field and clinical assessments. In June 2026 it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ethiopian Public Health Association.

The website links to Facebook and other social networks only as placeholders. We did not find a verified official social page.

Before you apply

• Don't assume "Medical" means medicine. We found no MD programme. Confirm in writing which programme you are applying to.
• Ask about clinical placements. The college has no hospital of its own named on its website. Ask which hospitals and health centres you will train in, especially for midwifery and specialty nursing.
• Check the accreditation of your exact programme. Ask for the ETA licence for your programme, particularly for newer ones such as radiotherapy technology and health informatics.
• Choose the right MPH mode. Regular MPHs take two years and weekend MPHs three. Government-sponsored applicants are prioritised.
• Get the fee structure in writing with your admission letter, since none is published online.