The foundation of technical education in Azerbaijan was first laid in November 1887 by the Baku City Duma with the establishment of a technical school in Baku. Initially, this school had a graduation consisting of 50 students in the Department of Mechanics and 55 students in the Department of Construction. In 1916, 494 students were studying at the school. Only 20 of them were Azerbaijani students. According to the decision made in 1918, the school was named Polytechnic. Departments of Oil Industry, Electromechanics and Construction-Architecture were operating in the educational institution with 188 students. At that time, 12 out of 62 people with higher education in Azerbaijan were engineers.
On November 14, 1920, by the decree of the Chairman of the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee, Nariman Narimanov, the Baku Polytechnic Institute, which trains higher technical specialists, was established based on the Baku Polytechnic School, which includes the departments of Oil Industry, Architecture-Construction and Electromechanics. Five faculties - Oil Industry, Electromechanics, Civil Engineering, Agriculture and Economics faculties functioned within this institute.
Baku Polytechnic Institute has been called Azerbaijan Oil Institute since 1923, and Azerbaijan Industrial Institute since November 1943. The latter included the Faculties of Architecture and Construction, Petromechanics, Energy, Oil Mining, Railway and Engineering and Economics.
The main building of AzTU
The training of engineers at the Azerbaijan Institute of Industry, mainly for the oil sector, the importance of the restoration and development of all sectors of the national economy after the Second World War, the importance of opening new industrial enterprises, the need to train engineers in various fields and the existence of a certain intellectual and technical potential in Azerbaijan led to the re-establishment of the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute. allowed.
Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU), one of the leading universities in the field of technical education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, was founded in 1950 in Baku, the capital of our country, with 4 faculties under the name Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute.
In 1950-1955, the faculties of the university operated in buildings located at different addresses. Since 1955, the university has been moved to its current building, covering all faculties. In the beautiful building of the university, which combines the most beautiful styles of Western and Eastern architecture, every condition has been created for students to acquire deep knowledge.
In 1975, based on the university, two new higher technical schools were established in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan University of Construction and Architecture and Ganja Institute of Technology.
Starting in 1978, mass specialist training for various republics of the USSR and several Asian, African and Latin American countries was started at AzTU. At that time, more than 12 thousand foreign students studied at the university. At different times, citizens of more than 40 foreign countries studied at the university and are currently studying there. In 1983, the university received the temporary flag of the USSR Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education and the first-class monetary award for its achievements in teaching-methodical and scientific-technical fields.
Since 1991, the university has been named Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU). Currently, the university prepares bachelor's degrees in 38 specialities, including mechanical engineering, metallurgy, informatics and computer technologies, electrical engineering, telecommunications, transportation, engineering business and other fields, and master's degrees in more than 100 specializations.
The University has faculties of Transport and logistics, Energy and automation, Metallurgy and materials science, Mechanical engineering and robotics, Information and telecommunication technologies, Economics and Management, and Special equipment and technology.
The scientific achievements of the university are published in scientific and technical magazines called Scientific works and Mechanical science. The university library and reading rooms with more than 500,000 books, as well as 20 educational and multimedia rooms with more than 400 personal computers, and specialized laboratories, serve students and employees.
The university closely cooperates with relevant structures of the UN, UNESCO, TRACECA and other international organizations, as well as with well-known universities in many foreign countries. More than 9,000 students, who can solve the problems of modern science and technology, are studying at the undergraduate and 600 graduate levels in the university's auditoriums and laboratories equipped with modern equipment, based on the curricula according to the credit system determined by the Bologna process. The university actively participates in solving economic issues and the social life of our country.
Graduates of Azerbaijan Technical University provide great services in the development of various fields of industry in many countries of the world. They successfully lead factories, ministries, huge industrial complexes, State Committees, and large enterprises. A graduate of our university headed the Republic of Azerbaijan from 1982-1988, 2 graduates served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and 5 graduates worked as First Deputy Prime Minister.