The application for the establishment of Faculty of Technology at University of Jaffna was submitted by former Vice Chancellor Prof. Ms. Vasanthy Arasaratnam in December 2015 to the University Grants Commission. The Faculty of Technology was established in 2016 as the tenth faculty of the University of Jaffna with coherence to the Higher Education Ministers order of establishment gazetted on the 29th of March 2016, Gazette No: 9/1960. The Faculty of Technology shall fulfill the mission of the University of Jaffna by building an educational system well suited for the technological needs of the country. The faculty was established with three departments, namely, Department of Engineering Technology, Department of Biosystems Technology and Department of Interdisciplinary studies. The faculty awards two degree programmes with five specializations. The first batch of students was enrolled from the academic year 2015/2016.

Prof. K. Kandasamy was appointed as the acting Dean of the faculty from April 2016 to September 2016. After his retirement, he continued to serve the faculty as a Consultant. Prof. S. Srisatkunarajah was appointed as the acting Dean of the faculty from October 2016 to September, 2017.  Both professors worked diligently and laid the basic foundation for the faculty by preparing the structure and syllabi for the degree of Bachelor of Technology and securing grants for the development of the necessary infrastructure, furniture, equipment and books. 

Since 2016 to 2021, the Faculty of Technology has been functioning at the temporary location where the Faculty of Engineering had been functioned earlier, with semi-permanent buildings. These semi-permanent building set consisted of 5 buildings: Administration Building, Engineering Technology Laboratory, Biosystems Technology Laboratory, Lecture Halls and Computer lab with Laboratory, and few additional semi-permanent buildings were later established to facilitate workshop and automobile laboratory. In the mean time, the permanent Faculty building (Phase 01) has been proposed for 535 Million, and that consisted of three wings: administration, Engineering Technology and Biosystems Technology (with the floor area capacity of about 5600 sqms.). The contract was awarded to Link Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd., and the construction was started in 2018 in the 400 acres of land allocated for the Faculty of Technology.