The first private university in Uzbekistan, KUIT was created by an agreement between the South Korean and Uzbek governments in 2018. It was initially known as Yeoju Technical Institute in Tashkent, and was run in partnership with South Korea’s Yeoju University
Today, it has relationships with more than 50 overseas universities, several in South Korea.
In 2022, the institute was rebranded as KUIT, but it continues to develop with guidance from South Korean and European experts. It has also expanded its activities beyond the Uzbek capital, opening branches in Namangan in 2022 and Samarkand in 2023.
KIUT aims to "teach students the skills necessary in their future life, cultivate competitive specialists with innovative thinking capable of working in any country in the world and to educate a highly moral harmoniously developed personality with professional capabilities that will be in demand by society and the state".
It offers 28 degree courses, spread across faculties of engineering (including a degree in lift engineering), business and finance, education (including degrees in English and Chinese translation and Korean philology), medicine and arts (including a degree in beauty aesthetics). Eleven of the courses are offered in the evening, and 12 on an extramural basis. Just under 1,000 students graduated in 2023.
In 2023, KIUT reached an agreement with Kazakhstan National Technical Research University to offer a joint degree in space technology, involving two years in Tashkent and two in Almaty.
