Gondar College of Medical Sciences is the oldest medical school in Ethiopia. Established as the Public Health College in 1954, it is located in Gondar, the former capital of Ethiopia. As of 2010, the university offers about 42 undergraduate and 17 postgraduate programs. These are organized under the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, five faculties (Faculty of Business and Economics, Faculty of Natural and Computational Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of Agriculture) in a second college, and three schools (School of Law, School of Technology and School of Education). The Public Health College was established following an agreement signed by the acting Ethiopian minister of public health, Marsae Hazan Wolde Qiros, and the government of the United States April 1954. The Ethiopian government signed a similar agreement with the World Health Organization September of that year. These agreements specified that the College would consist of four parts: a training school, a hospital, and awraja and municipal health departments.