Federal University of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe

The Federal University of Health Sciences and Technology, Tsafe (FUHSATT) is a federal government-owned university on Zaria Road, Tsafe, Zamfara State, in north-western Nigeria. It is the first specialised health sciences and technology university in Zamfara State and was set up to provide education and training in health sciences, medical sciences and technology, with a focus on teaching, research and community service. Its mission is to provide world-class education, research and innovation in health sciences and technology, producing graduates and solutions for local and global challenges.

Undergraduate programmes are grouped into Allied Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery, Sciences, Biotechnology and Computing. The first allied health group covers environmental health science, health information management, health information technology and health informatics, human nutrition and dietetics, medical laboratory science, nursing science, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and public health. A second development group adds complementary and alternative medicine, health care administration and hospital management, prosthetics and orthotics, radiography and speech-language therapy.

Medicine and Surgery spans basic medical sciences (human anatomy, medical biochemistry, human physiology), basic clinical sciences (pathology, pharmacology and therapeutics) and clinical sciences (medicine, surgery, community medicine, paediatrics). The Sciences cluster offers biochemistry, biotechnology, medical physics, microbiology and science laboratory technology; Biotechnology includes biomedical engineering at B.Sc, B.Eng and B.Tech level; Computing offers AI and digital health, biostatistics, clinical informatics and data sciences, nanotechnology and nanomedicine, and software engineering.

Postgraduate study covers master's and PhD routes across the same clusters, including nursing science, public health, medical laboratory sciences, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, human genetics and genomic medicine, and clinical specialities such as anaesthesia and intensive care, family medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and trauma, radiology and nuclear medicine, as well as environmental management and toxicology, medicinal chemistry and biomedical engineering.

Campus life centres on lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, research and collaborative learning in small student groups. A School of Remedial and Basic Studies, directed by Dr. Nura Makwashi, provides a one-year bridging route for candidates who need to remedy O'Level deficiencies before entering degree programmes. The university has a library and an e-library. The Vice-Chancellor is Professor Adamu Ibrahim Yakasai.