Tashkent University of Information Technologies

Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Uzbek: Muhammad ibn Muso al-Xorazmiy nomidagi Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti, Russian: Ташкентский Университет Информационных Технологий) often abbreviated as ТАТU or TUIT is one of the largest universities in Uzbekistan, located in its capital Tashkent.

The duties of the head (rector) of the institute were temporarily entrusted to N. B. Matskevich, chief of the Technical School of Communication.

In 1957, the institute opened night and correspondence departments with the following specializations: telephone and telegraph communication; radio and broadcasting.

Since 1968 the institute has been paying particular attention to training working students — they introduced a new position of pro-rector for the night and correspondence departments.

At that time the institute began to carry out big state budget and contract researches on developing new means of communication and new ways of signal transmitting, receiving and handling.

In 1991 the university opened a post-graduate course on two specialties and a special academic council on defending PhD theses started.

This faculty prepares communication officers mainly for troops of the Ministry of Defense and other power structures of the Republic Uzbekistan.

Since 1996 the Central Asian Telecommunication Training Center for raising the level of engineers' skills has been functioning at the University.

About 100 lecturers and post-graduates raised the level of their skills in training centers of Belgium and Greece under this program.

At the University there is also a Center for training women in information and telecommunication technologies established by the Trade and Development Agency and, besides that, there are courses under the CISCO program (US).

The University has established close friendly and business relationships with many relative higher education institutions of the world.

There has been made a decision to open regional branches of the University in Nukus, Karshi, Samarkand, Fergana and Urgench.

It applies both computer science and engineering principles and practices to the creation, operation, and maintenance of software systems.

The SF mainly prepares communication officers for troops of the Ministry of Defense and other power structures of the Republic.