The National Polytechnic University of Armenia was originally established in 1933 as the Karl Marx Yerevan Polytechnic Institute.
When it was first established the institute had just two departments and 107 students. Its aim was to train skilled professionals for the construction and chemical industry.
In 1991 the polytechnic was renamed the State Engineering University of Armenia and in 2014 it became the National Polytechnic University of Armenia.
The university is located in Yerevan, the capital and largest city of Armenia.
There are four institutes and one faculty at the university: institute of information and telecommunication technologies and electronics, institute of energy electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, transportation systems and design institute, institute of mining, metallurgy and chemical technologies, and the faculty of applied mathematics and physics. Each institute and faculty offer a wide range of both undergraduate and graduate degree programmes.
The university has developed partnerships with 175 other higher education institutions around the world. It has also established agreements with more than 22 international scientific research and grant programmes to facilitate exchanges for both students and staff.
