University of Management and Technology: An Overview
The University of Management and Technology (UMT) is a private, for-profit online university with its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Since 1998, UMT has been providing various levels of education programs to students across the globe. As of January 2025, UMT has educated 27,272 students. UMT students reside in 50 states, the District of Columbia, 4 territories of the United States, and 78 countries.
Founding and Leadership
UMT was founded in 1998 with Yanping Chen as the founding president and J. Davidson Frame as the founding dean. Chen had previously worked in China's space program before pursuing her Master’s and Ph.D. Frame was a faculty member, program director, and department chair at George Washington University.
Academic Programs and Structure
UMT has built a strong global learning community through its online and distance education. Geographical boundaries do not limit UMT and its students. UMT offers a range of academic programs.
Focus on Adult Learners
UMT addresses the needs of today's students in its degree programs. Most of its students are adults who have been working toward their degrees in bits and pieces as they earn a living, serve in the military, start a family, and squeeze in time to write term papers and prepare for exams. Many have attended several schools before settling down at UMT. Over the years they have accumulated quite a lot of transfer credit, so by the time they come to us, they are in a position to earn a degree in a year or two. UMT accepts up to 75% transfer credit for their undergrad degree programs.
Today's alternative students are looking to get a degree to help them move forward in their careers. What's interesting about them is that many have already developed valuable skills that make them employable and give them a toe-hold in a life career. Their principal goal in getting the degree is partially to pick up a few more skills; but chiefly, it's to get a degree that validates the expertise they have been developing over the past few years.
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For example, students who serve in the military are drawn to UMT's undergraduate criminal justice or homeland security programs. They are comfortable doing police and security work, because they have experience in these areas through their military service. Another example: adult students who honed technical skills in business or in the military see a track management by enrolling in BS in Engineering Management degree. They are qualified to manage engineering work efforts thanks to the advanced technical skills they have acquired at work or in the military, coupled with the engineering management knowledge they have gained through the University of Management and Technology BS in Engineering Management.
Self-Paced Learning
UMT online courses allows students to self-paced. Highly motivated students can complete their programs faster than at traditional semester-driven schools. If through hard work a student can complete a course in six weeks, then let him finish it and move on to the next course. The workload for self-paced courses is the same whether a student completes the course in six or a dozen weeks. Everyone must carry out the same load of work. But those who work harder, get through faster.
Academic Counseling Service
The University of Management and Technology's academic counseling service enables students to customize their programs to address their specific desires, skills and achievements. Whenever students enroll in the programs at UMT, they are assigned a counselor who provides them an Individual Learning Plan that meets their best interests. No two students have the identical learning plan, because each plan is tweaked to account for the student's past learning as well as current learning interests.
Affordability and Accessibility
The option of heading off to a residential college program at a four year school is not real one for the great majority of adult, working students today. These students are looking for an affordable school that accepts the coursework they have completed and applies it to a degree; enables them to work flexibly toward the degree; and provides counseling that lets them put together a program that will serve them best in pursuing their careers. Since its inception in 1998, UMT has not increased its tuition fees, which have been $370 per credit hour of instruction for more than twenty years.
UMT in Pakistan
The University of Management and Technology UMT is a project of Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Trust. ILM was established in 1990 by leading educationists, professionals, and industrialists with an aim to enhance the organizational and individual effectiveness. The University of Management and Technology has evolved into a premier institution of higher learning in the country. Recognized by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) as a “W4” category (highest rank) university, UMT is also the first in the Punjab amongst medium sized universities in the general category. UMT - now an independent, not-for-profit, private institution of higher learning - received her degree-granting charter first as the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) in 2002 through an Act of the Assembly of the Punjab. Later, on 16 June 2004, IMT became University of Management and Technology through the passing of a similar Act by the Punjab Assembly.
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