Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University was established in 1993 considering the needs of people returning from the deportation.

More than half of university specialties are accredited by the 4-th level, university as a whole has the 4-th level of accreditation. Former names: Crimean State Engineering and Pedagogical University, Crimean State Industrial and Pedagogical Institute.

There are seven faculties in which 7,000 students in 23 majors are trained. There are also 32 departments with more than 500 teachers, 43 doctors and professors, 226 candidates of science. The research center of the Crimean Tatar language and literature was established at the university (Director - Ismail AsanovychKerimov, PhD, professor).

Main research areas:

• The development of resource-saving, ecologically safe and adaptive technologies in mechanical engineering and in the automotive sector.
• The scientific support of the reform processes and economic relations and the fullest use of the resource potential of Crimea.
• The scientific support of the formation and development of professional competence of engineer-educators.
• The scientific support of computerization of the educational process.
• The development of scientific principles to maintain the ecological balance in the region, environmental education and sanitation of the youth.
• Improving the mechanisms of social adaptation and identity formation in multi-ethnicity, learning traditions and tendencies of the ethnopedagogics..
• The development of topical issues of cultural, ethno-political and socio-economic history of Crimea.
• The scientific support of language functioning in multi-ethnicity.
• The scientific support of the revival and development of the Crimean Tatar language and literature.
• The scientific support of the formation and development of the Crimean Tatar culture.

The famous graduates:

• ElnaraKuchuk (the singer)
• EdipAsanov (the composer)
• AlimAliyev (the front man for "Destan")
• DemirelAbdullayev (the singer)
• Anastasia Kozina (The European champion in rugby-7)