A large part of the campus was constructed on grounds which, up to the mid-1980s, belonged to the Kockums shipyard, which had been a key element of naval-industrial Malmö.
En stor del af universitetet er bygget på grunde, der indtil midten af 80'erne tilhørte Kockums skibsværft, en virksomhed der tidligere spillede en stor rolle i Malmøs skibsindustri.