It offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in architecture and engineering disciplines.

The university draws most of its student body from Lower Myanmar, outside Yangon Division.

The founding of PTU was part of the government's program to disperse college students away from the established universities and their city center locations to more isolated remote places.

In the beginning, the so-called university did not have a drinking water system or any dormitories on its campus.

[4] From 1999 to 2006, all engineering students from Lower Myanmar living outside Yangon Division had to attend PTU.