University Teknologi Petronas is one of the top private university in Malaysia and it is in Tier 5 by MQA Rating for Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia. UTP is one of the top private university in Malaysia for its technology and the facilities they provide for their students. At UTP students gets full attention from their lecturers which helps their students to be highly educated students.

Universiti Teknologi Petronas was established in 1997 and the university has be very successful since it was establish, the success of the university is still growing. Owned by the famous Petronas Company in Malaysia, the Universiti Teknologi Petronas has a 4-square kilometre campus located at Bandar Seri Iskandar, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. The school is famous when it comes to petroleum engineering trainings and academic teach-ins. Students do not have a hard time finding employment after graduation because they can always opt to work with Petronas, being Malaysia's national oil company.

Universiti Teknologi Petronas is ranked Top 10 World's Best Petroleum Engineering Institution

The Universiti Teknologi Petronas is one of the best in Asia and is being considered by many as a premier petroleum engineering school.

The campus is built on a 4 square kilometres (990 acres) site strategically located at Bandar Seri Iskandar, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. When UTP first moved to Tronoh, it took over the campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)'s engineering faculty, which has since moved to their new campus in Penang. In its initial years, lectures, lab sessions and tutorials were held in the old USM facilities, and UTP gradually shifted all operations to newer facilities once construction was completed.

A majority of the students are local, but there are significant numbers of foreign students studying in the university as well. Besides international students, there are also international lecturers and tutors in UTP. They are from Egypt, United States of America, Belgium, France, India, Mozambique, South Africa, Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan, Russia, Turkey and Turkmenistan.