[3] The UMST began as a private, non-profit making educational Academy, in Khartoum, Sudan in 1996.
[10][11][12][3] ICO was banned by Mamoun Homeida and UMST was not regarded by the British Medical Journal as a university particularly exposed to radical Islamic influences.
Two specialized high-tech diagnostic/treatment clinics were opened to receive the students for training: Yastabshiroon Centre where imaging techniques are housed, e.g., MRI, Spiral CT, ultrasound and echo scan, EEG, EMG, endoscopy with laparoscopic surgery, laser treatment facilities.
The Faculty of Dentistry conducts a course of studies leading the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S.)
to students who satisfy the regulations and successfully pass the examinations undertaken during five academic years.
The Faculty of Dentistry is located at the Academy Charity Teaching Hospital (ACTH), in Elimtidad, Khartoum, and among a heavily populated residential area which guarantees an excellent catchments of patients for training of students and within reach of transport facilities from the centre of Khartoum.
The Deans office, the lecture theatres and the laboratories are in one block and within 50 meters of the dental outpatient department.
There are two lecture halls with a capacity of 42 students each, two phantom skills laboratories with 24 phantom heads for preclinical training in operative dentistry and fixed prosthodontics, chrome cobalt /porcelain and acrylics laboratories each with a capacity for 20 students at a time.
[7] The University of Medical Sciences and Technology established the Faculty of Engineering in 2002 to manage graduate education and research.
Students select either from among departmental courses based on their personal interests or choose one or two option sequences from among those specified by their department.