School of Biomedical Engineering, UMTH, Maiduguri

The School of Biomedical Engineering Technology (SBET) is part of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), on Bama Road, Maiduguri, Borno State. It trains biomedical engineering technologists, technicians and craftsmen for hospitals and other health institutions, the pharmaceutical industry, medical equipment manufacturers and their representatives, and related industries.

Its vision is to be a viable and reliable Biomedical Engineering Technology school in Nigeria. Its mission is to train qualified technical managers with the expertise to install, operate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair hospital equipment so that healthcare can be delivered effectively and efficiently nationwide.

The school offers a National Diploma (ND), a Higher National Diploma (HND) and a certificate programme. The ND and HND each run for 2 years. Students follow an academic programme with rules and regulations on discipline and general conduct inside and outside the school.

UMTH was commissioned on 23 July 1983 by President Aliyu Shehu Shagari. The hospital has a bed capacity of 1,577, 17 clinical and 14 non-clinical departments, and serves a population of over 30 million in the North East geopolitical zone.