The IQAC has been established to promote the quality of education at AUST through internal and external Quality Assurance (QA) measures.  The IQAC is maintaining close contacts with different relevant organizations, including the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC), the Bangladesh Accreditation Council (BAC), and the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE). It is also responsible for submitting data for the QS University Rankings: Asia.

The IQAC of AUST is playing a pivotal role in implementing Outcome-based Education (OBE) as a quality assurance measure in different programs. The director of IQAC has been facilitating training activities (seminars, and workshops) for promoting OBE at faculty and program levels. It is also giving suggestions/feedback to different programs for developing their OBE-based curricula.