The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established in 2004, is a consortium of 85 African universities operating within 35 countries spanning the African continent. RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The organization evolved from its predecessor, the Forum on Agricultural Resource Husbandry (FORUM) program of the Rockefeller Foundation.
RUFORUM is registered as an International Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) and has mandate to oversee graduate training. Jimma University is a full member of the Forum since 2015. The Forum issued a press statement regarding the ranking of its members in the 2018 January Edition of university ranking in which 29 it’s member Universities, ranked among top 100 African Universities.
The press statement https://ruforum.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/january2018universityrankings.pdf
