Addis Ababa Science and Technology University was founded in 2011 under the Directive of the Council of Ministers.
As its name suggests, the university is located in Addis Ababa, the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.
Academically, the university is organised into five colleges: the college of applied sciences, college of architecture and civil engineering, college of biological and chemical engineering, college of electrical and mechanical engineering, and the college of natural and social sciences. Each college is divided into different departments, which offer a range of bot undergraduate and graduate degree programmes.
The university has been given an International Research Grant to help fund its various research projects. Current projects include "Factors Affecting ICT Use by Visually Impaired Students in Ethiopian Public Universities" and the "Design and Implementation of Solar and Wind Hybrid Power Systems for Off-Grid Use".
There are three research centres at the university: the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Centre of Excellence, the Mineral Exploration, Extraction and Processing Centre of Excellence, and the High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analytics Centre of Excellence.
