Urmia University of Technology was founded in 2007 with the following prospects, Gloals and outlook :

prospects :

- Achieving developed universities’ levels in all parameters
- Gaining access to the latest scientific and technological findings
- Making technical decisions process research oriented
- Providing all the required technical knowledge in Iran northwest
- Student admissions in graduate studies
- Promotion to an international and transnational university position
- Student recruitment from foreign countries
- Offering scientific and research services to the neighboring countries

The main goals of establishing UUT are:

- To promote cultural and scientific status of the province and its effective role in the country
- To develop higher education of the province and to improve student index
- To increase technical and engineering students proportion
- To reinforce the relationship between industry and higher education
- To accelerate and facilitate the province industry development and to train specialist human resources
- To actualize deprivation eradicating policies in the region
- To help the province transform an input-oriented economy to an output-oriented economy

Outlook: University development vision

- Achieving developed universities’ level in all parameters
- Gaining access to the latest scientific and technological findings and making technical decisions process research oriented
- Providing all the required technical knowledge in Iran northwest and activating student admissions in graduate studies
- Promoting to an international and transnational university position, recruiting students from foreign countries, and offering scientific and research services to the neighboring countries
In outlook, the universitys’ student population will reach 10 thousand people with 20 faculties, out of which 60 percent will belong to graduate students.