UPSI the history

The History Of UPSI

Distinctively swathed in the Legacy of Three Generations

                 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris or Sultan Idris University of Education (UPSI) is a Public Institution of Higher Education (IPTA) which contributes an important part in the history of our nation’s education. This institution grows in stages from a college to a renowned university. The growth of UPSI was through three important periods whereby it started with the SITC period (November 29, 1922-1957), MPSI (1957-1987) and IPSI (February 21, 1987 – April 1997). On May 1997, the institution was announced as a university to be named Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris based on the Government gazette RU. (A) 132 & 133 dated 24th February 1997 under the Order of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Corporation) and the Order of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Campus) 1997.