Since its establishment as a technical school in 1904 and finally a full-fledged university in 1975, UTM has played a pivotal role over the years as the nation's largest contributor of technical and professional workforce for the local industry, goverment agencies as well as multinational companies. It is located both in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and in Johor Bahru, which is its main campus situated in a strategic location in the Iskandar Malaysia region, a vibrant economic corridor in the south of Peninsular Malaysia.

Along with its established vision to be recognised as a orld-class Entrepreneurial Research University, UTM is set to be the centre of academic and technological excellence. Its mission is to be a leader in the development of human capital and innovative technologies that will contribute to the nation's wealth creation. UTM is Malaysia's top university in engineering and technology, ranked in the top 200 position in this field in the World University Rankings.

UTM offers more than 200 postgraduate programmes in engineering, sciense, technology and sosial science supported by more than 2,000 graduate faculty members experience and international exposure as well as many distinguished award-wanning researchers.

Highest number of Ph.D student enrolment in the region.

Highest number of recipients for industrial PhD Scholarship under MyBrain15 program.

Highest number of international student postgraduate enrolment in Malaysia.

Self-accreditation and autonomous status university.

State-of-the-art of laboratories & research facilities.