Following the WASC special investigation into Third Party Comments in February 2015,[6] the Board of Trustees removed Chan and appointed Dr. Gregory O'Brien as the new President of ITU.

The campus has a 300-seat lecture hall, gym, yoga studio, research labs, as well as additional classrooms and faculty offices.

The university operates laboratories in the following areas: IoT/Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence/Robotics, Green Energy, and Bioelectronics staffed by faculty and graduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE).

[19] The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that after its near-bankruptcy in 2006, ITU began to promise international students the opportunity to work full-time jobs immediately upon arrival.

ITU has been criticized for attracting unknowing international students when its accreditation and credit transfer policy are questionable.

[20] On January 8, 2021, ITU entered into a settlement agreement with the United States to pay $1,170,000 under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, in order to settle allegations related to student visa fraud.