Mbeya Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) provides Technical Education, Research and Consultancy services. Due to rapid technological changes in the world today in many fields, there are ever widening technical skill gaps in the labour market of scientists, technicians and engineers. MIST has set for itself the task of responding to these changes at the same pace as that at which the technology is changing by making frequent reviews of its curricula and developing new curricula and programmes to fit and fill the skill gaps that new technologies pose. MIST, therefore plays its role of training scientists, engineers and technologists in numbers and quality so as to spearhead development in the public and private sector.