Contact Information
Name: Dr. Gebremichael Weldegabriel
Position: President
Address: Block 15, Room 09, Adigrat University Main Campus
P.O. Box: 50, Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia
Mobile: +251 914301576
Phone: +251 348 870 000
Fax: +251 344 452 170 / 23 / 15
Email: gebremichael.weldegabriel@adu.edu.et
Alternative Email: gwmicky350@gmail.com
President’s Message
“Hard Work: Our Hallmark”
Welcome to Adigrat University.
Established in 2011, Adigrat University has grown into a comprehensive public university committed to quality education, impactful research, innovation, community engagement, and sustainable development.
Over the past fifteen years, our University has experienced remarkable growth and significant challenges. The difficult years of conflict tested our institution, our people, and our communities. Yet, through resilience, dedication, and collective effort, Adigrat University has continued its mission and embarked on a determined journey of recovery and transformation.
Today, we are moving beyond recovery toward a stronger and more ambitious future. Guided by the principle of Building Back Better, we are strengthening academic quality, research and innovation, digital transformation, institutional governance, community engagement, resource mobilization, and national and international partnerships.
Our students remain at the centre of our mission. We are committed to providing them with relevant knowledge, practical skills, critical thinking, digital competencies, and opportunities to become responsible contributors to society.
We are equally committed to creating an enabling environment for our academic and professional staff to teach, conduct research, innovate, collaborate, and grow professionally. We believe that institutional excellence is achieved through people, teamwork, integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Research and innovation are central to our future. We will continue to promote research that responds to local, national, and global challenges while strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge transfer, technology development, and partnerships.
Our internationalization agenda is also expanding. We seek strategic partnerships that create tangible opportunities for joint research, academic mobility, student development, innovation, technology transfer, capacity building, and resource mobilization.
As we look to the future, Adigrat University will remain committed to being a resilient, inclusive, innovative, internationally connected, and socially responsible university.
I invite our students, staff, alumni, partners, communities, and friends around the world to join us in this journey.
- Our history gives us strength.
- Our challenges have built our resilience.
- Our people are our greatest asset.
- Our partnerships expand our possibilities.
- Our vision guides our future.
“Together, we will Build Back Better”
August 2026