Azerbaijan Technical University

AzTU is one of the leading Universities in the technical education field of Azerbaijan Republic, which was established under the name Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute with 4 faculties in the country's capital Baku in 1950. The faculties of the university were functioning in the buildings which located in various addresses in the 1950-1955 years. University with all faculties moved to the present building in 1955. Combining the most beautiful Eastern and Western architecture style beautiful building of the university offers all necessary facilities for the students to acquire extensive knowledge. Two new higher technical schools in Azerbaijan “University of Architecture and Construction" and "Ganja Institute of Technology” were founded on the basis of Azerbaijan Technical University in 1975. Since 1978, AzTU has started a mass training of specialists for various Republics of USSR and a number of countries Asia, Africa and Latin America. More than 12,000 students were studied at the university in that period. AzTU was awarded with the Challenge Banner of the Ministry of Higher and Special Secondary Education of the USSR and received the first grade money award for the achievements gained in the teaching-methodical and scientific-technical fields.