Bitlis Eren University (BEU) has been established in 2007 with the aim of contributing to the development of the region and to the academic development of the country. BEU has become an internationally qualified university consisting of 5 faculties, 11 vocational schools, 2 institutes, 14 application and research centres, which have amenities with modern facilities that the students and the academics may need. For the research and education in information and communication technologies, BEU has two departments which are collaboratively working: computer engineering and electrical and electronics engineering. Within these departments, there are 21 academic staff at different ranks. Six of these academic staff have obtained their PhD in the highly-ranked international universities (some of which are within the top 100 world-wide). Seven of the academics in these departments have obtained their PhD from the highly-ranked Turkish universities with a national PhD exchange programme. The ICT departments have recently become operational recruiting dynamic and qualified researchers in terms of research and development, and accepting bachelor level students (2018-2019 for Dept. of Computer Engineering). Additionally, the Science and Technology Application and Research Centre is committed to supporting the related research projects. Together with the ICT departments, BEU has six departments in the Faculty of Engineering Architecture, which are: Civil Eng., Computer Eng., Electrical and Electronics Eng., Environmental Eng., Industrial Eng., and Mechanical Eng. In these engineering departments, there are 41 academic personnel and 14 administrative personnel working. Totally, there are over 9000 students and over 470 academics at the university. BEU has also the Distance Education Research and Development Centre in its organisation and offers some degree programmes in a distance education setting. Currently, they are developing a distance education tool to be used in the university. The university is also economically supported by Istanbul-based Eren Holding for developing the university’s infrastructure.