Education, Entrepreneurship, Technology
A technical university for Sierra Leone
Engineering, agriculture, health, the trades, teaching and enterprise, taught across 8 campuses and centres in Kenema, Kailahun and Kono, from a one year vocational certificate to a masters degree.
Find your programme
Start with what you want to study.
Search the live ETU catalogue by subject, award or school.
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Ways in
Enter at your level, and keep climbing
A Technical Certificate can carry you to a Higher Diploma, and a Higher Diploma into the degree in the same subject. You do not have to arrive with everything.
Academics
Explore the faculties
Faculties, schools and institutes, read from the university's own records so this is what is actually running.
Ways to study
Study while you work
Not everybody can stop working in order to study, and the university is built around that. Evening and Saturday teaching exists for people already in employment, and the Institute of Distance Education trains teachers who stay in their schools.
- Regular
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Full-time students.
- Extended
- Monday to Friday, 5:00 PM to 9:45 PM, and Saturday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Mainly for people already in work.
- Distance
- Tutorials during vacation periods
- Mainly teachers who stay in their posts while they study.
- Online
- Asynchronous, in a virtual learning environment
- To be advertised.
Life at ETU
What a year here looks like
Workshops and wards, fieldwork and lecture halls, and the ceremony at the end of it.
Taught by doing
Workshops, laboratories, field survey and clinical placement. The trades, engineering and nursing are learned with your hands as well as your head.
Close to home
8 campuses and centres across Kenema, Kailahun and Kono, so the nearest teaching site is a journey you can make in a morning.
Films from the campuses
6 recordings of the university's teaching, its events and its congregation. Nothing loads until you press play, so they are light on a mobile connection.
About the university
A mission defined by innovation
At Eastern Technical University of Sierra Leone, our mission is to empower the next generation of African innovators and leaders through cutting-edge technical education and research. Founded on the principles of excellence, integrity, and service, we provide a dynamic learning environment where students can transform their potential into meaningful impact.
- Faculties, schools and institutes
- Programmes currently offered
- Campuses and centres
- 8
- Levels of study, certificate to masters
- 4
Admissions
Apply to study at ETU
Pay the processing fee at a bank, keep the slip, and use its PIN to begin an application that saves as you go.
Before you open the form
Payment comes before the application, not after it, and the processing fee is not refundable.
Check the requirements first
Read the entry requirements for the programme you want before you pay anything. The processing fee is not refundable.
Pay at a bank
Pay the application processing fee at any branch of one of the three named banks and keep the slip. You will scan it later.
Collect your PIN
The bank issues an authorised twenty digit PIN. That PIN is what opens an application form.