[8] Brawijaya University has 47,469 students from 18 faculties and 221 departments, ranging from the vocational, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and medical specialist programs.

[9] Overall, University of Brawijaya owns 9,813,664 m2 or 981 hectares and its endowment fund reached 5.12 trillion Rupiah (US$360 million).

This date was later promulgated as University of Brawijaya's anniversary (especially called Dies Natalies among Indonesian academic society members).

The Faculty of Engineering was established in 1963 based on a decree form the Ministry of Universities and Education Science in the same year.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was inaugurated following a decree from the Ministry of Education and Culture dated October 21, 1993.

[20] A medical student was awarded the second prize in the Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) experiment competition.

Using lab rats, he found salmonella bacteria can get rid of fatty residue in subject's arteries which may be used as a future remedy for people suffering from heart disease.