The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is a public university in Valencia, Spain, with campuses in Alcoy, Gandia and Valencia. Its origin is the Instituto Politécnico Superior de Valencia, created in 1968, which became the Universitat Politècnica de València in 1971. The university says it has around 28,000 students.
Agriculture is taught at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), whose predecessor, the School of Agricultural Engineering, was created in 1959 and began teaching in the 1960-61 academic year in Burjassot. UPV’s research institutes in this field include the Preservation and Improvement of Valencian Agro-diversity University Research Institute (COMAV), the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Joint Research Institute (IBMCP), the Food Engineering Research Institute (FoodUPV), the Mediterranean Agroforestry Research Institute and the Research Centre for Mediterranean Irrigation and Agricultural Systems. UPV also lists the UJI-UPV Joint Research Unit on Agri-Food Quality Improvement and the UPV-CTFC Joint Research Unit in Forest Science and Technology.