The Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) was officially founded on 5 October 1966, the day the foundation stone of its campus was laid, according to the university. Its statistical summary for 2026, based on 2025 data, lists six campuses, 24 teaching and research units, 20,804 undergraduate students and 17,070 postgraduate students.
Agricultural engineering is taught and researched in the Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola (FEAGRI), created in July 1985 when Unicamp split its Faculty of Food and Agricultural Engineering into separate food engineering and agricultural engineering faculties. FEAGRI is organised around integrated councils for rural infrastructure, planning and management, and process technology, and runs laboratories in areas such as hydraulics and irrigation, geospatial information in agriculture, post-harvest technology, rural extension and agroecology, and soils. Recent faculty news covers precision agriculture, smart irrigation and agrivoltaic plants. Unicamp’s Centro Pluridisciplinar de Pesquisas Químicas, Biológicas e Agrícolas (CPQBA), in Paulínia, includes an agrotechnology division.