The foundation of technical education in Azerbaijan was laid by the Baku City Duma on November 10, 1887 with the establishment of a technical school in Baku, and it made its worthy contribution to the development of Azerbaijan's economy, industry, science, and education. In 1916, 494 students studied at the school. Later that school was named Polytechnic Technical School. In a period of more than 100 years, changes in political and economic formations, revolutions, renaissances and recessions in various fields have had a serious impact on the development of science and technology, and our university has not been unaffected as well. But this science and educational institution has successfully overcome the difficult challenges of life. In a period of 133 years, it has maintained its unique image in the field of both scientific and technical development and specialist training for all areas of the economy.
On November 14, 1920, the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute was organized as a higher school by the decree of the Chairman of the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee Nariman Narimanov titled "On the establishment of the Polytechnic Institute in Baku". In other words, Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute became a BLESSED science and educational center, with its blessing, several universities - the current Azerbaijan University of Construction and Architecture, Azerbaijan University of Technology - got a license.
After the Second World War, the restoration and development of all sectors of the national economy, the importance of opening new industrial enterprises, the need to train engineering personnel in various fields and the presence of a certain intellectual and technical potential in Azerbaijan made it possible to re-establish the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute.
In the mid-1970s, it was the largest higher education institution in the Republic in terms of the number of faculties and specialties in science and technology. At that time, more than 20,000 students were enrolled in 11 faculties, and the graduates were successfully working in different parts of the USSR at that time.
In 1975, two new higher technical schools were established in Azerbaijan on the basis of the University - the Institute of Civil Engineers of Azerbaijan and the Ganja Institute of Technology in 1980.
Starting from 1978, mass specialist training for various republics of the USSR and a number of Asian, African and Latin American countries was started in AzPI. At that time, more than 12,000 students were studying at the university. In 1983, for his achievements in teaching-methodical and scientific-technical fields, it received the temporary flag of the Ministry of Higher and Special Secondary Education of the USSR and the first-class monetary award.
In 1981, national leader Heydar Aliyev's visit to AzPI and his meeting with students and teaching staff became a significant event in the history of this higher school. According to his instructions, in 1984, the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR made a decision to expand the material and technical base of AzPI. In the decision, AzPI's work in training high-quality engineering personnel was positively assessed. The decision also reflected the construction of a new educational building for the Faculty of "Automatics and Computer Engineering", strengthening the material and technical base, and solving the social problems of the employees. Since 1991, the higher school has been named Azerbaijan Technical University. This period can be characterized by the occurrence of serious changes in the social and political life of the region, as well as in the field of higher education. The transition to a multi-level education system in the higher education system, Azerbaijan's accession to the Bologna process, and the changes occurring in industrial fields created new challenges in the development of Azerbaijan Technical University. This period was marked by serious reforms in education programs and plans, the spectrum of specializations began to decrease sharply, and the tendencies of integration into the European education system intensified.
Nowadays, the university has 35 undergraduate majors and more than 100 graduate majors (specializations) in mechanical engineering and robotics, metallurgy and materials science, informatics and computer technologies, electricity and electronics, radio engineering and telecommunications, transport, economics and management, as well as other fields. The University prepares high-level specialist and scientific personnel. More than 8,000 students who can solve the problems of modern science and technology are studying at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels in the university's auditoriums and laboratories equipped with modern techologies, based on the curricula according to the credit system determined by the Bologna process. The university actively participates in solving economic issues and social life of our country.
Azerbaijan Technical University is successfully keeping up its activities in the 21st century, in the era of globalization and industrial revolutions. Our university, which prepared more than 100,000 specialists for Azerbaijan's industry, economy, science and education, rightly has hundreds of AzTU graduates working in the highest positions in our Republic and beyond the borders of the country - in the public administration system, in all fields of industry, in scientific and educational institutions and they fulfill their citizenship duties properly.
In accordance with its mission, AzTU is determined to take a leading position among the leading higher technical schools in Azerbaijan and the region, to carry out competitive personnel training, innovative and scientific-technical work. However, providing sustainable education and scientific-innovative activity in special and unexpected cases is one of the main priorities of AzTU. The priorities we show define our goals for today. These goals can be briefly listed as follows: