The university was founded as the Jamaica Institute of Technology in 1958. The following year it was incorporated as the College of Arts, Science and Technology, and was formally recognised by an Act of Parliament in 1964. It was granted degree awarding powers in 1986 and a governing council and academic board were established. The college gained university status, under its current name, on 1 September 1995, and permanent provision for the university was made by the University of Technology, Jamaica Act 27, which became law on 29 June 1999. From just over 50 students and four programmes in 1958, UTech, Ja has grown to become Jamaica's premier national institution with a student population of over 12,000. It now offers more than 90 programmes at the certificate, diploma and degree levels through its five faculties and three colleges.
Academics
The University of Technology offers courses across eight colleges and faculties:
The University of Technology, Jamaica currently has four campuses:
Papine Campus
Slipe Pen Road Campus
Arthur Wint Drive Campus
Western Campus
Programmes
This institution offers over 100 programmes in various colleges and faculties. These are the College of Business and Management, the College of Health Sciences, the Colleges of Oral Health Sciences, the Faculty of the Built Environment, the Faculty of Science and Sport, the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, and the Faculty of Law. The UTech Academy offers pre-university and all pre-graduate courses and programmes. Courses are offered at the certificate, diploma, undergraduate, and post-graduate degree levels.
The College of Business and Management
The College of Business and Management comprises the Schools of Business Administration and Hospitality and Tourism Management, the Joan Duncan School of Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, and the UTech/JIM School of Advanced Management.
Consists of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Caribbean School of Sport Sciences and Centre of Science-based Research, Entrepreneurship and Continuing Studies.
The Faculty of the Built Environment
Consists of the School of Building and Land Management and the Caribbean School of Architecture, the only architectural school in the English-speaking Caribbean.
The Faculty of Engineering and Computing
The Schools of Computing and Information Technology and Engineering fall within the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.
The Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies
Contains the programmes of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Technical and Vocational Education.
Notable faculty and administrators
Stephen Vasciannie: Current President, Formerly Deputy Solicitor-General and principal of the Norman Manley Law School, former Jamaica's Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary to the United States 2012 - 2015.
