Areas of knowledge taught at KNUTD: Education/Pedagogy, Culture and art, Humanities, Social and behavioral sciences, Management and administration, Legal Sciences, Natural Sciences, Information Technology, Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Automation and instrumentation, Chemical and bioengineering, Production and Technology, Healthcare, Service sector, Public administration and administration (MBA).

The second, third and fourth courses were staffed by students from the Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa polytechnic institutes.

And already on October 1, 1941, two car trains with property and a small amount of staff of the Institute arrived at the Khrompik station in the city of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region.

In 1993, the Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry was accredited and renamed the State Academy of Light Industry of Ukraine (GALPU), and on August 30, 1999 - the Kyiv State University of Technology and Design (KGUTD).

In 2015, by the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers, a higher educational institution, the Intersectoral Academy of Management, was attached to KNUTD.

Since 2015, the university has been preparing specialists capable of working in the field of entrepreneurship and law.

The university also prepares candidates and doctors of sciences in 12 specialties, who can defend their dissertations in six specialized academic councils.