The animal husbandry study program at Mercu Buana University, Yogyakarta, was founded in 1984; at that time, the Umby campus was still called IPW (Wangsa Manggala Agricultural Institute), which later changed its name to Wangsa Manggala University (UNWAMA) in 1986. Then, it changed its name again to Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta in 2008.