State University of Malang has a main task, implementing the Tridharma of Higher Education, namely education and teaching, research and community service. State University of Malang has the following functions:

  1. Carry out education and teaching in order to prepare Doctoral, Masters, Bachelor and Diploma staff, both in the educational and non-educational fields;
  2. Carry out research in various fields of science including education which functions to improve the quality of learning, produce scientific findings, technology, language and art;
  3. Carry out the development of learning models to improve the internal PBM of the university as well as for other educational institutions and the community;
  4. Carry out community service in the form of application of science and technology for the welfare of society;
  5. Developing quality support programs for inputs, processes and outputs through the UPT;
  6. Developing extracurricular programs in the form of student reasoning and interests and talents;
  7. Developing alumni empowerment programs.