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The establishment of private universities and university colleges were made possible with the passage of the Private Higher Educational Institutions Act 1996 [Act 555]. [29] Before that, private institutions of higher learning existed but were not authorised to confer their own degrees. Instead, they acted as preparatory institutions for students to undertake courses of instructions in ...
The University of Malaya ( Malay: Universiti Malaya; abbreviated as UM or informally the Malayan University) is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest and highest ranking Malaysian institution of higher education, [6] [7] and was the only university in newly independent Malaya. [8] The university has graduated five prime ministers of Malaysia, and ...
University of Putra Malaysia ( Malay: Universiti Putra Malaysia ), abbreviated as UPM, is a Malaysian public research university located in Serdang, Selangor. Formerly it was named Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (Agricultural University of Malaysia), focusing on agricultural sciences and related fields. Since the 1990s, the fields of study have expanded to include human ecology, languages ...
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (also called Limkokwing and LUCT) is a private university that has a presence across Africa, Europe, and Asia. With its main campus in Malaysia, the university has over 30,000 students from more than 150 countries. The university offers a wide range of programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate ...
Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University College ( KLMUC, Malay: Kolej Universiti Metropolitan Kuala Lumpur) is a university college located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was established in 1991. The College currently offers over 17 programmes in 3 distinctive faculties. The degree and diploma courses are accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications ...
UCSI was founded in 1986 by Dato' Peter Ng as a computer-training institute in Petaling Jaya. [1] It soon relocated to new premises in Kuala Lumpur to cater to growing student numbers and more academic programmes were offered. UCSI was accorded college status in 1990 by the Ministry of Education (Malaysia), university college status in 2003 and full-fledged university status in 2008, becoming ...
University of Wollongong Malaysia (Formerly known as KDU University College) is a private university in Malaysia, with its campus in Utropolis Glenmarie, Shah Alam. Established in 1983, and a pioneer in Malaysian private education, UOW Malaysia was one of the first private colleges in Malaysia to have its own purpose-built campus. UOW Malaysia offers education programs at the Certificate ...
In the early 1990s, Monash University established a partnership with Sunway University. Under this arrangement, Malaysian students would enrol and spend their first year in Malaysia, before transferring to one of Monash's Australian campuses to complete their degree. Demand increased for these places rapidly and the potential to expand the program was clear. Monash itself had ambitions to ...