A working university
You will spend most of your time making something
This is a technical university, and that shapes the week. Across the faculties the teaching is practical: a workshop bench, a sewing machine, a ward, a survey pole, a laboratory. Lectures exist, but they are not where most of the learning happens.
Teaching runs across 8 campuses and centres in Kenema, Kailahun and Kono, and the Institute of Distance Education takes it to teachers who cannot stop working in order to study.
Across the faculties
What students here actually do
Four of the eleven faculties, and the work that defines them.
Clinical Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery
Training for the wards
Nursing and midwifery students train in uniform and qualify through supervised clinical placement. The faculty runs a clinical route and an education route, with options from paediatrics to public and community health nursing.
Vocational and Skills Development
Benches, machines and a finished piece
Fashion and design is taught at the machine. So are catering, carpentry, masonry, plumbing, welding and automobile technology, from a Vocational Certificate up to a Bachelor of Technology in the same trade.
Engineering and Innovation
Stripped, measured, rebuilt
Civil, electrical, mechanical and mining engineering, renewable energy and computing, taught with workshops and laboratories rather than only with lectures.
Fieldwork
Work that happens outside
Land surveying, environmental monitoring, agricultural extension and disaster management all take students off the campus and onto real ground.
See it
Films from the university
Recordings of the university's events and work, from the channels that filmed them. Nothing loads until you press play, so the page stays light on a mobile connection.
Fitting study around a life
Four ways to be a student here
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.
- RegularMonday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Full-time students. Open to applicants for all programmes except distance education.
- ExtendedMonday to Friday, 5:00 PM to 9:45 PM, and Saturday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Mainly for people already in work. Currently open for the Bachelor of Education, and the Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Banking and Finance, Social Work and Public Health.
- DistanceTutorials during vacation periods
- Mainly teachers who stay in their posts while they study. Currently open for HTC (Secondary and Primary) and the Teachers Certificate, at Kenema, Bunumbu, Kailahun and Kono City.
- OnlineAsynchronous, in a virtual learning environment
- To be advertised. Announced as commencing with short-term programmes. Not yet open for application.
The end of it
Congregation
Awards are conferred at the Dr. Julius Maada Bio Amphitheatre. The Court and the Senate have announced the 2025/2026 ceremony for Saturday, 14 November 2026.
Once you are enrolled
What the portal does for you
These are the services this system genuinely runs. Anything the university provides that the portal does not record is deliberately not listed, because a website that invents a student service is making a promise.
Accommodation
Hostel places are applied for, allocated and paid for in the portal, and receipts are verified by the hostel office. Diploma programmes at Segbwema have hostel facilities.
Fees and payments
Your bill, what you have paid and what is outstanding, itemised the way the fees schedule publishes it.
Course materials
Notes, syllabuses and assignments for every module you are registered on.
Attendance
Your own attendance record, per module, as your lecturers have entered it.
Student union elections
Nominations and voting, run in the portal so a result can be verified.
Suggestion box
A route to the administration that does not depend on knowing whose office to knock on.
Join them
Study at ETU
Check the entry requirements for the award you want, then start an application.