Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (or DeKUT) is a public, coeducational technological university in Nyeri, Kenya. It is one of 22 public universities in Kenya, having been a constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology since the year 2007 until it was chartered to become a fully fledged public university on 14 December 2012.
It was the first university in Kenya to be chartered under the new universities act of 2012 and the eighth public university to be established in the country.
 
DeKUT offers academic programmes at the undergraduate and graduate levels through five schools and five institutes.
The schools and institutes are:

• School of Business Management and Economics;
• School of Engineering;
• School of Sciences;
• School of Computer Science and Information Technology;
• School of Health Science;
• Institute of Geomatics, GIS and Remote Sensing;
• Institute of Food Bioresources Technology;
• Geothermal Energy Training and Research Institute;
• Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management; and Institute of Technical and Professional Studies (ITPS). ITPS offers programmes at the technical diploma level