Faba bean (Viciafaba L.) is also referred to as broad bean, horse bean and sometimes field bean. Ethiopia is the world’s second largest producer of faba bean next to China, And its share is only 6.96% of world production and 40.5% within Africa. Participatory variety selection has been very successful both in facilitating adoption by poor farmers in marginal environments and their selection criteria.This study was conducted with the objectives of evaluating and recommending high yielding varieties thus enabling farmers to assess the performance of improved varieties of their choice through participatory variety selection approach. The study contained six improved fababean varieties and a local check. The agronomic data were collected from mother trials and subjected to Statistical Analysis Software. The mother trial was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The mean separation analysis for seed yield showed that Tumsa produced more yield (2093.9kgha-1), followed by Dosha (1978 kgha-1) and Ashebeka (1977.3kgha-1). The combined mean of the varieties showed discrepancy across locations (mother and baby trials).Varieties performed well at Giraram kebele followed by Enchifo and Yekegat on-station testing sites. The varieties were selected and evaluated against the set criteria’s by employing pairwise ranking methods. Preferred selection criteria’s’ were disease resistance, number of seeds/pod, number of seeds/plant, fertile tiller capacity, earliness and stem thickness. When three locations scores summed up Dosha scored 90 and (ranked,1st) followed by Ashebeka scored 87 and Tumsa scored 85 ranked 2nd and 3rd, respectively. In conclusion, the present study has highlighted the existence of superior varieties for the yield under the study. Both varieties selected by the farmers and the mean separation analysis showed similar trend. In both cases Dosha and Ashebeka were superior to other genotypes. The information obtained about these genotypes can be exploited boosting the production and productivity of faba bean.Even though further study is important over locations and across years, Dosha and Ashebeka could be potential varieties for current use. This study has suggested that introduction, collection, and extensive hybridization of fababean in Ethiopia is a crucial task to enhance genetic variability and thereby to increase the chance for selecting and developing high yielding genotypes and hybrids through participatory approach.