Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (APJAKTU), formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU), is a public collegiate university in Lucknow in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established as the Uttar Pradesh Technical University through the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 8 May 2000. To reduce workload and to ensure proper management, the university was bifurcated into separate universities, Gautam Buddh Technical University and Mahamaya Technical University, with effect from 1 May 2010. In 2013, as a new government came into power, the university was formed again by combining the two on 5 January 2013.
It is an affiliating university, with approximately 800 colleges affiliated to it.
The university was earlier on the IET Lucknow campus. Now it is in its newly inaugurated campus in Jankipuram, Lucknow. Additionally, the university had a Centre and Regional Office in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, which was retained by Mahamaya Technical University.
On 18 September 2015, the university was officially renamed as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University.
On 20 June 2017, the newly constructed campus of Centre for Advanced Studies, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow in Jankipuram, Lucknow was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi. All the programmes including MTech, PhD & DSc are AICTE approved. It is a Research Driven Autonomous Government Institution of AKTU & is recognised u/s 2(F) of UGC Act, 1956. At present, CAS is funded by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. It is trying to get grants-in-aid status from MHRD, GoI u/s 12 (B) of UGC Act, 1956.
Uttar Pradesh Institute of Design, Noida is also a new constituent coliege of AKTU & offers BDes, MDes & PhD programmes approved by AICTE.
