About

Eastern Technical University

Education, Entrepreneurship, Technology

What we are

A technical university, and that word is load bearing

Most of what is taught here is learned by doing it. A workshop bench, a sewing machine, a ward, a survey pole, a laboratory. The university runs engineering and the building trades, agriculture and natural resources, nursing and public health, teacher training, the sciences, enterprise and governance, and it runs them at every level from a one year vocational certificate to a masters degree.

That ladder is deliberate rather than accidental. A Technical Certificate in a trade can carry somebody to a Bachelor of Technology in the same trade, which is the difference between a qualification that ends and one that opens.

A woman in university workshop uniform working on mechanical components at a bench beside a colleague — Mechanical work in the engineering workshop.

Graduands in academic dress seated at the Dr. Julius Maada Bio Amphitheatre

Students at sewing machines in a fashion and design workshop, with fabric laid out on benches

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.

Here you will find a community dedicated to solving real-world challenges through technology and innovation, and a commitment to advancing Sierra Leone's technological landscape.

As published by the university.

The scale of it

Counted, not claimed

Every figure here is a count of rows the registry itself holds, taken at the moment you loaded this page.

Faculties, schools and institutes

Programmes currently offered

Award levels, certificate to masters

Campuses and centres

The number that is missing

There is no enrolment figure on this website. Counting rows in the students table would publish “people who have signed in to this portal” as though it meant “people enrolled at the university”, and those are not the same number. A prospectus figure has to come from the registry, and when it publishes one it will appear here.

What we teach

Faculties, schools and institutes

Each one, and what defines it, in a sentence.

Faculties and schools

ENG: Engineering and the built environment, from civil and electrical to mining, renewable energy and computing.
VSD: Practical trades and skilled crafts taught to certificate, diploma and degree level.
PAS: The physical and biological sciences, and the mathematics underneath them.
CSN: Nursing, midwifery and community health, taught clinically and for the classroom.
EAH: Public health, health education, biomedical science, and environment and disaster management.
AGR: Agriculture, food and the management of natural resources.
EDU: Teacher education, from the Teachers Certificate to degrees and technical and vocational teaching.
FEM: Accounting, finance, economics, business administration and entrepreneurship.
HUG: Social work, governance, public policy and the social sciences.
IDE: Distance and continuing professional education, mainly for teachers already in post.
PGS: Masters and postgraduate diploma study, admitted and examined centrally and supervised by the faculties.

Where we are

Three districts, eight places

The university is not on one site. Teaching runs across Kenema, Kailahun and Kono, which is a deliberate answer to a real problem: a single campus in one city serves the people who can afford to move to it.

The Institute of Distance Education goes further still, taking teacher training to people who stay in their schools and study during the vacations.

Campuses and centres

Kenema
Main campus and registry
Kenema District
Bandama
Teaching campus
Kenema District
Bunumbu
Teaching campus and distance education centre
Kailahun District
Woama
Teaching campus
Kono District
Segbwema
Health training
Kailahun District
Panderu
Postgraduate school
Kenema District
Kono City
Distance education centre
Kono District
Kailahun Town
Distance education centre
Kailahun District

Who runs it

Three principal offices

Supported by the Court and the Senate, which issue the congregation notice, confirm the academic year and approve the programmes the registry then publishes.

Leadership and governance

Chancellor

Prof. Joe A. D. Alie

Vice Chancellor and Principal

Prof. M. T. Lahai

Registrar

Mr John Juana

Foundation and block work under way for the postgraduate teaching block at Panderu Campus — The postgraduate teaching block under construction at Panderu.

What we are building

A teaching block for the postgraduate school

Ten lecture rooms and supporting facilities are under construction at the Panderu Campus, supported by the People's Republic of China. Sod was turned on 3 September 2026 and the work is expected to take no more than six months.

The current Strategic Plan runs from 2023 to 2027.

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A note on what is missing

Where the evidence stops, this page stops

There is no history section, no founding date, no vision statement separate from the mission, no list of partnerships and no table of achievements. The university has not published any of them, and an About page is exactly where an invented founding year or an imagined international partnership would sit most comfortably and do the most damage.

Each of those sections will appear here the day there is a published source to build it from. If you hold one, the registry is the route in.

Contact the registry

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Apply to ETU

Browse the programmes, check the entry requirements for the award you want, then start an application.

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