Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is a public university in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 by integrating existing higher technical schools, and the university says its Schools of Forestry Engineering and Agricultural Engineering originated in the nineteenth century. A UPM brochure from April 2023 gives a figure of over 36,000 students.
Agriculture is taught at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas (ETSIAAB) and forestry at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural. ETSIAAB’s departments include Producción Agraria; Economía Agraria, Estadística y Gestión de Empresas; and Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal. Its affiliated research centres are the Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP) and CEIGRAM, which works on agricultural and environmental risk management. Its company chairs include the Cátedra Fertiberia, the Cátedra John Deere en Agricultura de Precisión, the Cátedra Fertinagro Biotech and the Aula AGROSEGURO on agricultural insurance. UPM and the FAO signed a memorandum of understanding on 4 June 2024.