The University of Advancing Technology is the technophile's college experience—a community uniquely suited to provide students passionate about technology an ideal place to live and grow. UAT is a private and family-owned University that merges the traditional academy's values with the modern technology campus. This fusion enhances our ability to fulfill the mission of educating students in the fields of advancing technology who innovate for our future.
Learning at UAT extends from our students, staff, and faculty to the institution itself. UAT's dedication to learning is reflected in our efforts to create and develop new learning ways that focus on every member of the UAT community's mission and vision.
UAT strives to foster knowledge creation and achieve academic excellence. We are at the forefront of developing academic programs that tend to be unique among academia or emerge years ahead of other schools, such as Network Security and Robotics and Embedded Systems, as well as our established Game Development majors that merged artistic and programming aspects long before other colleges chose that focus for themselves.
At the heart of UAT's curricula is a technology-infused campus in Tempe, Arizona. This fusion of the traditional academy with the technology-focused curricula creates a distinct, non-exclusionary university where students learn to value their uniqueness and the power of technology in education.
With the brilliant minds of all generations since the dawn of the computer revolution serving as our guide, we at UAT have worked hard to develop the UAT culture and core curriculum that inspire students and professors alike to see beyond the tech of the moment to the more significant trends and future directions that create real innovation and industry leadership.
As the first computer university in the country, UAT has earned a reputation for advancing technology education. Our students are known as forward-thinking innovators and capable problem-solvers. This culture reinforces the heart of why UAT exists: "To educate students in advancing technology who innovate for our future." Students with a passion for technology will find the UAT experience to be the defining choice in their paths to success in life.
As a commitment to our dedication to these ideals, each graduate is required to leave UAT as a proven innovator, so focused on innovation, they demonstrate their real-world knowledge by filing for a US patent before graduation.
Our vision is "To advance global society by developing premier thinkers for a lifetime of innovation."
UAT graduates are known to complete what they start. As students, they pre-visualize outcomes and support each other to develop completion patterns through their projects, classes, portfolios, and the ultimate expression of completion: their degrees.
UAT consistently researches and develops a mix of viable, relevant, and relevant educational offerings and further its identity, mission, and reputation. Its educational offerings position the University at the forefront of new and advancing technologies, contribute significantly to the field, and are sufficiently diverse to support ongoing fiscal health.
UAT's connections and synergies are reciprocal, varied, rich, and alive. Those connections and synergies inform policy, build curriculum, enhance educational output, enrich learning, foster innovation, and provide graduate opportunity. As a result of our excellent connections to the community, employers, and industry, UAT educational experiences are relevant to the students and beneficial to employers and the global community.
UAT's organization is built to serve its constituencies enduringly through planning strategically, fostering organizational learning, ensuring its long-term fiscal health, and protecting UAT's culture, identity, and distinctiveness.
Through the attainment of knowledge and understanding in general education, University core, and their chosen discipline, UAT's graduates leave the institution prepared to contribute to their fields.
UAT's faculty, staff, students, and alumni create knowledge within our expertise areas of learning and technology and transfer it effectively to constituents.
We call ourselves the University of Advancing Technology, and we are quite serious about that — especially the Advancing part — even when it comes to virtual tours. With a drone as your tour guide, go airborne to experience a day in the life of UAT students learning, experiencing, and innovating. The sky is the limit.
It all begins with a UAT tour, where students and families see for themselves how this leading-edge curriculum is uniquely suited to provide students passionate about technology an ideal place to live and grow. Scheduling a tour during UAT's unique events and activities provides students opportunities to observe additional aspects of Geek Life.
When you apply yourself and graduate from UAT, you will have gained a thorough body of knowledge about the world we live in and the drivers for innovation—history, culture, and communication. You will learn how to think, analyze information, and apply knowledge to create solutions. You will possess a deep and comprehensive understanding of technology, not just how to best work with contemporary technology, but how to adapt and utilize technology as it advances and transforms. You will possess the tools to become more than just a technician. You will be a competent professional who is prepared to create, innovate, and provide leadership to the rank and file of technicians in your chosen field.
At this distinctive, private technology college, your experiences, memories, and friends will last for the rest of your life, each meaningful and vivid because of your shared passion for technology. You will be prepared to build a life, a career, and a future on your terms—doing what you enjoy and performing at the highest levels of technology and industry.
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