Brawijaya University is preparing its university accreditation (Akreditasi Perguruan Tinggi/APT). Accreditation A which has been owned since 2014 will end in 2019. As a University that has more than 151 program, then there will be around seven BAN PT (Badan Akreditasi Nasional Perguruan Tinggi/University National Accreditation Board) are going to have accreditation. A socialization related to this has done to all academic communities including lecturers, administrative staffs, students and alumni on Wednesday (17/Oct/2018). Meanwhile socialization to all principals of faculties and rectorate will be conducted on Monday (22/Oct/2018).

The application of information technology in the field of libraries is increasingly developing following the development of existing technology. In the digital era, there are many inventions of instruments or tools in information technology, one of which is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).  RFID as the successor of barcode technology is one of the developments in the field of documentation and information that began to be developed in the library world.The application of RFID to library collections will provide many benefits, including: as a security media and preventive theft of book collections, improving service quality and accelerating the performance of library staff.

The Department of Civil Engineering and Urban & Regional Planning (PWK), Faculty of Engineering UB collaborated to organize a Workshop and Symposium on the Transportation Study Forum between Universities (FSTPT) XXI, on 19-20 October 2018 in the UB Brawijaya University. This annual routine begins with a workshop held in parallel in five rooms of the Civil Engineering Department and PWK to accommodate around 250 presenters from all provinces throughout Indonesia. Stated by the Chair of the 2016-2018 FSTPT, Prof. Ir. Leksmono Suryo Putranto, MT, Ph.D that pre-symposium activities in 2018 are much more congested with various workshops and research group discussions.