Namangan Institute of Engineering and Technology

Namangan Institute of Engineering and Technology was formed in 1968 to train skilled operatives for the textile and light industries which grew around the fertile cotton fields of the Fergana Valley.

It was granted university status in 1992 and it took its current name in 2011

The university started with two classrooms in central Namanagan, a city on the Silk Road. It is now divided into faculties of light industry, automation and energy, economics, chemical technology, agricultural production technology and engineering technology.

Among its projects is diversification away from the district’s dependence on cotton.

It is among the founding members of the World Textile Universities Alliance and runs a joint degree with Saratov State Technical University, Russia. Partnerships have been formed with Ege University in Turkey and Osh State University in Kyrgyzstan among others.