University of Malaya

The University of Malaya is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest university in Malaysia. In post-nominals the university's name is currently abbreviated as UM and Malaya during the pre-independence period.

Universiti Malaya, or UM, Malaysia's oldest university.

The University was founded in 1949 as a public-funded tertiary institution. Today, it has more than 2,500 faculty members of various expertise. In 2012, UM was granted autonomy status by the Ministry of Higher Education.

Ranking

In 2011, UM is ranked at 401 to 500 in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).And the THES – QS World University Rankings has ranked UM in the top 200 universities of the world.

• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Administration and Social Justice
  • Anthropology and Sociology
  • Chinese Studies
  • East Asian Studies
  • English
  • Environmental Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Geography
  • History
  • Indian Studies
  • International and Strategic Studies
  • Mathematics
  • Media Studies
  • Population Studies
  • South East Asia Studies
  • Township and Urban Planning Studies

• Faculty of Built Environment
  • Architecture
  • Building Surveying
  • Estate Management
  • Quantity Surveying
  • Urban and Regional Planning

• Faculty of Economics & Administration
  • Economics
  • Development Studies
  • Administrative and Politics
  • Applied Statistic

• Faculty of Business and Accountancy
  • Accounting
  • Business Administration

• Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
  • Computer Science
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computer Networking and System
    • Management Information System
    • Software Engineering
  • Information Technology
    • Information Science
    • Management
    • Multimedia

• Faculty of Dentistry
  • Dental Surgery

• Faculty of Education
  • Counselling
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Teaching English as Second Language

• Faculty of Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biomedical (Prosthetic and Orthopedic) Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Design and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Material Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Telecommunication Engineering

• Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • Tamil

• Faculty of Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Laws

• Faculty of Medicine
  • Biomedical Science
  • Medicine and Surgery
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy
  • Medical Imaging

• Faculty of Science
  • Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
  • Applied Geology
  • Biochemistry
  • Biohealth Science
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Applied Chemistry
  • Ecology and Biodiversity
  • Environmental Science and Management
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Geology
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial and Computational Mathematics
  • Microbiology
  • Physics

Campus

The campus is situated on a 750 acre (309 hectare) campus in the southwest of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. It was established in April 1949 in Singapore with the merger of the King Edward VII College of Medicine (founded in 1905) and Raffles College (founded in 1928).

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