The Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) is a public technology university with campuses in Bloemfontein and Welkom, Free State province, South Africa.

As part of the South African government's restructuring of tertiary education for the new millennium it was promoted to university of technology status.

The university has two campuses – one in Bloemfontein, the judicial capital of South Africa, and one in Welkom, in the heart of the Free State goldfields.

The Central University of Technology employs over 800 academic and research staff spread across four faculties.

[1] RGEMS (Research Group in Evolvable Manufacturing Systems) is a research group within the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering[3] at the Central University of Technology, Free State.