The curriculum focuses on the scientific-technological area,[8] and one of its main components is dual training, where students combine academic learning in the classroom with work practices in the company.

Yachay Tech, the National Polytechnic School (EPN) and the San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ), lead the country's research podium according to Nature.

Its creation file mentions the objectives of promoting scientific research, technological development, and disseminating knowledge.

[citation needed] In May 2018, the Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (Senescyt), Augusto Barrera, apparently ratified his commitment to "resize, give tranquillity, continuity and enhance" the University.

[citation needed] In 2022 the National Assembly member Ana Belén Cordero was accused of libel after saying that the former manager of the university had misspent money.

The academic offer, the lines of research, and the training of the students correspond to the areas that the Ecuadorian government has detected as priorities for the change of the country's productive matrix.