National University of Malaysia is a
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located in
BangiBangi is a small town situated on the south of the district of Hulu Langat, in Selangor, Malaysia. It is roughly situated between the towns of Kajang and Putrajaya , and is linked to KTM Komuter commuter train services via the Bangi Komuter station...
,
SelangorSelangor is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...
which is about 35 km south of
Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur , is the capital and largest city of Malaysia. The city proper, making up an area of , has an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2006. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
. There is also a teaching hospital in Cheras and a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur. Today, it has 17,500 undergraduate students, and 5,105 postgraduate students of which 1368 are foreign students from 35 different countries.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is recognised as one of the four
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universities in Malaysia. It was ranked by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) at number 185 in its annual ranking of the world's top 200 universities for 2006. However, it has dropped out of the list of top 200 universities in the world in 2007.
History
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia was formally established on 18 May 1970. The temporary campus is located at
Lembah PantaiLembah Pantai is a parliamentary constituency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, consisting of 47 divisions. Constituencies adjacent to Lembah Pantai are Seputeh, Segambut and Bukit Bintang....
, Kuala Lumpur with its first cohort of 192 students and 3 faculty and in October 1977, it moved to its present location in Bangi, an attractive and green valley area of 1,096 hectares. In 2007, the university has expanded to 12 well-established faculties, four institutes and nine centres.
Faculties
- Allied Health Sciences
- Dentistry
- Economics and Business
- Education
- Engineering and Built Environment
- Graduate School of Business
- Information Science and Technology
- Islamic Studies
- Law
- Medicine
- Pharmacy
- Science and Technology
- Social Sciences and Humanities.
Centres
- Centre for Academic Advancement
- Centre for Corporate Planning & Communications
- Centre for General Studies
- Centre for Graduate Management
- Centre for Information Technology
- Centre for Publication and Printing
- Centre for Research and Innovation Management
- Centre for Students Advancement
- UKM Islamic Centre
- UKM Medical Centre
Institutes
- Fuel Cell Institute
- Inst. for Environment & Development (LESTARI)
- Inst. for Malaysian & International Studies (IKMAS)
- Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA)
- Inst. of Microengineering & Nanoelectronics (IMEN)
- Inst. of Occidental Studies (IKON)
- Inst. of Space Science (ANGKASA)
- Inst. of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS)
- Inst. of the Malay World & Civilization (ATMA)
- Inst. of West Asian Studies (IKRAB)
- Inst. of Islam Hadhari (HADHARI)
- Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI)
- Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)
- South East Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute (SEADPRI-UKM)
Postgraduate programmes are managed by the Centre for Graduate Studies, which was established in 1983. The Centre offers coursework or research-based programmes on both part time and full time basis. The Centre also collaborates with other national and international institutions of higher learning.
The university adapted a collegiate system which was based on
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and
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.It consists of 12 residential colleges, namely, Dato Onn, Aminuddin Baki, Ungku Omar, Burhanuddin Helmi, Ibrahim Yaakob, Rahim Kajai, Ibu Zain, Keris Mas, Pendeta Za'ba, Tun
Hussein OnnTun Hussein bin Dato' Onn who is of 3/4 Malay and 1/4 Circassian ancestry was the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, ruling from 1976 to 1981. He was granted the soubriquet Bapa Perpaduan...
, Tun Syed Nasir, and Tun Dr. Ismail.
Famous people that are affiliated with the university included Sheikh Muzaphar Shukor, the first astronaut of Malaysia, and
Syed Hussein AlatasSyed Hussein Alatas was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia...
.
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