Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers

Established in 1934, "TIIAME" National Research University (The Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers) is Uzbekistan's premier institution for engineering, agriculture, and environmental sciences. Designated as a national research university by Presidential Decree in 2021, TIIAME has evolved into a regional hub for academic excellence, technological innovation, and global scientific cooperation. With over 100 years of academic legacy, TIIAME plays a vital role in preparing highly qualified professionals and advancing research to address global challenges related to water, food, climate, Renewable Energy and sustainability. Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers is located in the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent city, Kari Niyozov street, 39-house.^[2] TIIAME- National Research University ranked no. 1 university in Uzbekistan in national, QS and Times Higher Education World University Ranking. It ranked 469 in QS World University Rankings 2026: Top global universities, ranked 501 in Times World University Rankings 2026 and No. 1 university of Uzbekistan in all national and international universities rankings.

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers- "TIIAME"- National Research University

Toshkent Irrigatsiya va Qishloq Xo‘jaligini Mexanizatsiyalash Muhandislari Instituti
Former name	Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration
Type	Public
Established	1923
Rector	Mirzayev Baxodir Suyunovich
Location	Tashkent , Uzbekistan
Language	Uzbek, Russian
Website	tiiame.uz

University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[1]	211-220 (2022)

History

The history of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers dates back to the Soviet Union. The university was first established in 1923 as the department of Turkistan State University. It was created under the technical faculty and was called Hydro Technical Engineering. In its first year of establishment, 24 agronomists and 16 water conservation specialists graduated from the faculty. The history of this university could be recognized on the second occasion. After six years of opening the Hydro Technical Engineering department, the government decided to establish a new department under the Melioration Engineering Faculty. Those two departments were linked together in 1929, which led to the establishment of Central Asian Cotton Irrigation Polytechnic University. On 11 November 1934, Central Asian Cotton Irrigation Polytechnic University was merged with the Central Asian Institute of Agricultural Industry Irrigation and Mechanization, which was the reason for the creation of the Tashkent Institute of Agricultural Industry Irrigation and Mechanization. In the first years of establishment, there were only two faculties, Hydromelioration and Mechanization. After World War II, the agricultural industry of the country increased rapidly, which affected the need for professional employees.

After World War II, a number of faculties were created: Building (1945), Mechanization of Hydro Melioration (1946), and Hydro Energetics (1946). In 1974 a new faculty was named Technology of Repairing Agricultural Industry Machines and Creating Them. In 1979 a number of engineering faculties were opened, which was directly linked to the economic growth in Uzbekistan.

After the independence of Uzbekistan, all the textbooks were interpreted into Uzbek language, and most of the classes started to be taught in the native language of Uzbekistan. In 2004, on 30 March by the edict of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, the institute obtained its current name. This meant that the Tashkent Institute of Agricultural Industry Irrigation and Mechanization was renamed to the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. In 2017 institute took the name Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers. Nowadays the institute involves five faculties with 30 departments. It has 353 professors and teachers and more than 4860 students.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Campus

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers consists of four main buildings, three laboratory buildings, scientific centers, an information resource center which has 700,000 materials in its fund, three dormitories with an overall capacity for 1200 students, a canteen which can serve 484 people at one time, and a park.^[9]

Rector

The rector of Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers is Bakhadir Mirzaev Suyunovich, a doctor of Technical sciences and professor.^[10]

Duties

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers has set its duties and provided them in the rules of the institute. The six main duties are:

• Supply the individual (student) with intellectual and cultural education, and meet their ethical needs
• Help those individuals (students) to become improved by all of the sides
• To develop the subject by giving attention to volunteers who are creating something new relating to that subject
• To improve the qualification in the economy of interested people
• To keep the nation's ethic and cultural beliefs and enlarge them
• To spread the knowledge among the citizens^[11]

Faculties

University rectorate building

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers currently consists of five faculties, which are divided into 36 departments. The seven faculties are as follows:

• Faculty of "Hydrotechnical construction"
• Faculty of "Ecology and Law"
• Faculty of "Agricultural Mechanization"
• Faculty of Energy
• Faculty of "Land Resources and Cadastre"
• Faculty of Hydromelioration
• Faculty of "Economics"

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Faculty of Economics

Until the 1970s there were no economists on the water industry in Uzbekistan. This caused some serious problems in water consumption and utilization. In 1974, in order to solve this problem, a new branch was opened under the faculty of Hydro Technical Constructions", called the Economy of Water Industry and its Analysis. In 1976, this branch was set as the independent faculty and started working as one of the biggest parts of the institute. From the first years, about 50 students were invited to the university and in 1979 the first 50 students graduated from this faculty. After the independence of Uzbekistan, in 2015 the faculty was renamed to its current name: Water Industry Management. Nowadays, the dean of the faculty is docent Ibragimov Abdimalik Gapparovich. On the campus of the faculty, there are two language classes, four computer classes, and more than 20 study classes, which are supplied with modern education materials and information technologies.

The Water Industry Management faculty has seven departments:

• Information technologies
• Water industry economy
• Control under the water industry
• Theoretical economy
• Accounting and audit
• Foreign languages
• English language^[13]

Faculty of Hydromelioration

The history of the Hydro Melioration faculty can be separated into two parts: the Soviet Union times and the period after the independence of Uzbekistan. The past of the faculty is directly linked with the history of the university, which means that the faculty was created in 1923 and was the first faculty in the history of the university. In the first year, only eight students graduated from the faculty, and then there were 274 students and 49 professors. On 16 November 1934, the number of students increased rapidly to 705. The establishment of the faculty led to economic growth in Central Asia. After independence, the faculty was mixed with two different departments. Nowadays it has three main bachelor's degree branches:

• Mechanization of Water Industry and Melioration
• Ecology
• Hydro Energetics

The departments located in the faculty are:

• Ecology
• Physical education
• Physics
• Chemistry

Faculty of Energy

The Faculty of Electrification and Automation of Agriculture was established in 1961, commencing its activities with the training of specialists in the field of agricultural electrification and the automation of technological processes. In 1978, the specialization in agricultural automation was separated into an independent faculty, which, three years later in 1981, was re-integrated into the Faculty of Electrification and Automation of Agriculture.

In 2004, the faculties of "Electrification and Automation of Agriculture" and "Mechanization of Irrigation and Reclamation Works" were merged, leading to the creation of the Faculty of Automation and Mechanization of Water Resources.

In 2017, based on Presidential Decree No. PQ-3003 dated May 24, 2017, the Faculty of Electrification and Automation of Agricultural and Water Management was reorganized at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization. This faculty incorporated relevant departments from the Tashkent State Agrarian University, along with undergraduate programs and master's specializations.

In 2018, following Presidential Resolution No. PQ-3702 dated May 8, 2018, aimed at fundamentally improving the system for training highly qualified specialists at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization, the faculty was renamed to "Energy Supply for Agricultural and Water Management."

In 2022, based on the decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PQ-3702 dated December 10, 2021, concerning the radical enhancement of the engineering workforce training system for economic sectors through innovation and digitalization, the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization was transformed into a university and renamed "Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers" of the National Research University." Consequently, the faculty was renamed to "Energy."

There are four departments in faculty of Energy:

• Electricity and renewable energy sources
• Electrical technologies and operation of electrical equipment
• Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Automation and control of technology process"

Mechanisation of hydromeliorative works

• Life safety department
• Mechanization of hydromeliorative works
• The organization and technology of hydrometallic works
• Humanitarian subjects^[14]

Faculty of Agriculture Mechanization

• Agricultural machinery
• Tractors and Automobiles
• Operation and repair of machines
• General technical sciences

Faculty of Hydrotechnical Constructions

Nowadays the dean of the Faculty of Hydrotechnical Constructions" is docent B.B. Xasanov. The history of the establishment goes back to 1946, when the first woman irrigator T.A. Kolpakova opened the Building of Small and Medium Hydroelectric-Stations faculty. After some years the faculty was called the Hydro Technical Building. However, big changes to the faculty came in the independence years of Uzbekistan. In 1991 the faculty was considered to be the department due to the changes in infrastructure. During those years, the faculty worked as part of the Center for Preparing the Irrigation Engineers" and from 1996 it became part of the Hydro Melioration faculty" and prepared professionals in the water industry building" field. After the edict made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, the small department became the fully functioning faculty with the name Building of Irrigation Hydro Technical Constructions and Utilization. The faculty obtained its current name by the 311 edict which was made on 3 November 2015, by the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan. The four departments involved inside the faculty are:^[15]

• Hydrotechnical Constructions constructions and engineering designs
• Use of water and pumping stations
• Theoretical and construction mechanics
• Drawing geometry and engineering graphics

Faculty of "Land Resources and Cadastre

The Faculty of land management was first established in 1945 under the name of Land Making. The faculty attained its current name in 2017. Nowadays, the dean of this faculty is Narbaev Sharaf. There are now 670 students involved with studies in this faculty. During its working period, the Utilization of Land and Land Cadaster faculty became one of the biggest educational places in Central Asia. Some students came from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kirgizia, and Tajikistan. There are three bachelor's degree branches and two master's degree branches in the Utilization of Land and Land Cadaster faculty.

Bachelor's degree branches:

• Cadaster
• Land creation and land cadaster
• Profession education: land creation and land cadaster

Master's degree branches:

• Cartography
• Usage and controlling the land recourses

There are four departments located in this faculty:

• Geodesy and geoinformatics
• Land use
• State cadastres^[16]
• Higher Mathematics

Students' town

Students' town was first established in 1987 under the Tashkent Irrigation and Mechanization of Agricultural industry Engineers Institute. Since 2004 it is considered to be the students' town of the Tashkent Irrigation and Melioration Institute. Students' town consists of three students' dormitories numbered 2, 3, and 4, and with buildings numbered 6 and 7 for the university staff. The director of the students' town is Bozorov Baxtiyor Xakimovich.^[17]

Dormitories

Every dormitory in students' town holds students from various faculties. Dormitory #2 holds 232 students from Automating and Mechanizing the Water Industry faculty and 44 students from Building of Irrigation Hydro Technical Construction and Usage faculty. Overall, dormitory 2 holds 276 students.

Dormitory #3 holds about 410 students from different faculties.

Dormitory #4 holds 385 students from different faculties.

Buildings 6 and 7 mainly serve university staff representatives and young scientists. There are 162 rooms in those buildings and 607 people living there.

Every building is provided with solutions for the essential needs of every individual. There are sport halls, kitchens, reading halls, and restrooms in each level of the buildings. They all are fully provided with gas and electric energy. The student town has a library which provides the students with most of the necessary textbooks. The kitchen rooms of the dormitories are provided with tables, chairs, and ovens.^[18]

Academic lyceums

There are two academic lyceums which were opened under the name of Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. They are Yunusabad Academic Lyceum and International House – Tashkent Lyceum. They were opened to cover high demands for qualified high-school graduates. The representative from the university who works with the lyceums is Makumova Dilrabo Innatovna^[19]

Yunusabad Academic Lyceum

Yunusabad Academic Lyceum was first established under the Tashkent Irrigation and Mechanization of Agricultural Industry Engineers Institute in 1987, with another name of Universal Technical Lyceum". However, after the independence of Uzbekistan by the edict of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan on 23 September 1998, the name of the lyceum must have been changed. This edict was done only after the year, on 2 September 1999, and was renamed and re-established by the edict number 406 to Yunusabad Academic Lyceum. There are three faculties in this academic lyceum: Exact Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Social-Humanitarian Subjects.

Exact Sciences faculty:

• Physics, math (technical branch)
• Math, English language (economical branch)

Natural Sciences faculty:

• Chemistry, biology (medical branch)

Social-Humanitarian Subjects faculty:

• History, English language, law (history branch)

Only prospective students who have successfully completed the nine year secondary program can apply to the university. Then they can be examined by the lyceum administration. Students from other regions are provided with dormitories.

There are five departments in Yunusabad Academic Lyceum:

• Mathematics department;
• Natural Sciences department
• Uzbek Language and Literature department
• Foreign Languages department
• Social-Humanitarian Subjects department^[20]

International House – Tashkent lyceum

International House in Tashkent is one of the two lyceums which were established under the name of Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers. However, the lyceum first was opened as the education center in 1993, in order to inherit educational processes and techniques from the developed countries of the United Kingdom and the US. The lyceum was located in the center of the Tashkent city, and it is easy to find its location, by the metro station Hamid Olimjon. In 2007 by the edict of Islam Karimov, the simple education center was fully set to be the academic lyceum, and was given under the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. In 2009, for making the academic lyceum fully standard with the world's requirements, reconstruction works were established. The education in the lyceum is based on the Uzbekistan's educational standards, and held in two different faculties, Exact Sciences and Social-Humanitarian Sciences.

In 2011 International House academic lyceum published their own magazine catalog, which details the lyceum. The magazine was named We are Inter House! The materials for the magazine were collected from the year of 2009. Nowadays about 300 students are studying at the International House lyceum and there are two professors, four docents and a number of highly qualified teachers.^[21][22]

Rankings

TIIAME- National Research University ranked no. 1 university in Uzbekistan in national, QS and Times Higher Education World University Ranking. It ranked# 469 in QS World University Rankings 2026: Top global universities and ranked# 501 in Times World University Rankings 2026 .

International Partnerships

TIIAME maintains strong ties with 50+ institutions worldwide on mutual academic cooperation and Research, including:

• Wageningen University (Netherlands)

• Humboldt University (Germany)

• Colorado State University (USA)

• Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (China)

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IIT Roorkee (India)