Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) is based in Serdang, Selangor. The university says it was first established as the School of Agriculture in 1931, became the College of Agriculture Malaya in 1947, and merged with the University of Malaya’s Faculty of Agriculture to form Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, whose first academic session was in July 1973. It took its present name in 1997. UPM reports about 29,000 students as of May 2026.
The Faculty of Agriculture, one of the university’s three founding faculties, has departments of crop science, animal science, plant protection, land management, agribusiness and bioresources, agriculture technology and aquaculture, and a faculty farm. Forestry is taught in the Faculty of Forestry and Environment. Research institutes include the Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security (ITAFoS), the Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP) and the Institute of Plantation Studies. UPM reports 292 commercialised intellectual property items and 46 start-ups that secured more than RM19.2 million in funds or investment, as of December 2025.