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The University of Malta (Maltese L-Università ta' Malta) is the highest educational institution in Malta. It offers undergraduate Bachelor's Degrees, which last between three and five years, and postgraduate Master's Degrees that last two years full-time.
The university also offers postgraduate Doctorates (PhD), but native students are increasingly turning to foreign universities when undertaking doctorate-level studies.
The rector of the university is currently Professor Juanito Camilleri.
Entry
Admission to the university is based on Matriculation examination results.
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The University of Malta (Maltese L-Università ta' Malta) is the highest educational institution in Malta. It offers undergraduate Bachelor's Degrees, which last between three and five years, and postgraduate Master's Degrees that last two years full-time.
The university also offers postgraduate Doctorates (PhD), but native students are increasingly turning to foreign universities when undertaking doctorate-level studies.
The rector of the university is currently Professor Juanito Camilleri.
Entry
Admission to the university is based on Matriculation examination results. However, entry on basis of maturity is granted for certain courses.
The University is known to have the strictest grade requirements in the European continent, and entry into some courses is limited. For example, The Faculty of Dental Surgery allows for a maximum of 6 European students per year, chosen according to merit, and only after the students have successfully passed an admissions interview.
Over the years, the university has been criticised both for its antiquated admission policies, which are most often based solely on test grades and take nothing else into consideration; its didactic approach to education; and its attitude to teaching/learning in general.
In the past it has also been criticised for discontinuing/not offering courses when it is forecast not enough students will enroll to make hosting the course financially rewarding, though this has not happened very often of late. In the 1970s, under Dom Mintoff's government, the university became more accessible to students with a working-class or middle-class background since financial help started being given. In fact, the university's population increased by around 200% in this period. Up to the 1960s, the total university population was that of 300 students; in the 1970s it approached the 1,000 mark. The theology course, through which the State was financing the training of priests for the Catholic Church, was closed due to Labour's secularist beliefs. This course was re-opened after the Nationalists were elected into government in 1987.
University of Malta has presented the government with a five-year plan to improve the country’s low innovation score. This was in reaction to the low rating Malta obtained in the EU innovation scoreboard.
Faculties
These are the 11 faculties into which the university is divided:
- Faculty of the Built Environment (Fakultà ta' l-Ambjent mibni)
- Faculty of Arts (Fakultà ta' l-Arti)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery (Fakultà tad-Dentisterija)
- Faculty of Economics, Management & Accountancy (Fakultà ta' l-Ekonomija, Management u Accountancy)
- Faculty of Education (Fakultà ta' l-Edukazzjoni)
- Faculty of Engineering (Fakultà ta' l-Inginerija)
- Faculty of Laws (Fakultà tal-Ligi)
- Faculty of Medicine & Surgery (Fakultà tal-Medicina u l-Kirurgija)
- Faculty of Science (Fakultà tax-Xjenza)
- Faculty of Theology (Fakultà tat-Teologija)
- Faculty of Information & Communication Technology (Fakultà tat-Teknologija ta' l-Informatika u l-Komunikazzjoni)
Courses
The following are some courses offered by the University of Malta. Please note that this section is currently under construction.
Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) ]
Bachelor of Education (Honours)
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
Bachelor of Arts in Youth and Community Studies (Honours)
Fees
Undergraduate courses are free-of-charge to citizens of Malta and the European Union, however, comparably hefty fees are charged to European nationals from other countries as well as Africans, Asians and non-EU European states. In spite of this, the university has a healthy percentage of foreign students (non-EU) the majority of which are from Asia, mainly, China. Recently, the university has also begun to attract students from Eastern Europe. Students enrolled in higher education in Malta are entitled to a stipend. The endowment of this stipend has been halted previously, when instead a loans system was introduced and students with socio-economic problems started receiving grants which amounted to more than they used to receive under the stipends system. When the stipends system was re-introduced, the amount of money given was less than that which was given before the system had been changed. In 2005 stipends were once more decreased. It has never been conferred to foreign nationals.
History
The University was originally a Catholic university. Its origins dates back to 1592 when the Collegium Melitense was founded by the Bishop Garagallo and originally run by the Jesuits. After the Jesuits were expelled from the Maltese Islands in 1768 the assets of the Collegium Melitense were taken over and the University founded by Grandmaster Manuel Pinto da Fonseca in 1769. After Napoleon conquered the island in the 1798, the university was briefly abolished and transformed into a French educational institution. However, after the French were forced to leave in 1800, the islands became a British protectorate and the University was reestablished by Sir Alexander Ball. In 1938, King George VI gave it the title of The Royal University of Malta. The word "Royal" was subsequently removed from the name of the university, when Malta became a republic in 1974.
Notable graduates
- Architect and Civil Engineer, Dom Mintoff - former (sixth and ninth)Prime Minister of Malta twice
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