Heriot-Watt University Malaysia

Putrajaya, Malaysia

Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (HWUM), opened in 2014, is a branch campus of Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, whose roots trace to 1821 as the world's first mechanics' institute. Its purpose-built £35 million campus sits on a 4.8-acre lakeside site in Putrajaya, Malaysia's planned federal administrative capital, and features the first living grass roof of its kind in Malaysia. Graduates receive an identical Heriot-Watt Edinburgh degree, with guaranteed Go Global transfer options to the UK or Dubai campuses. HWUM is particularly renowned for actuarial science, business, engineering and psychology, and its distinctive fashion marketing and design programmes inherited from Heriot-Watt's historic Scottish School of Textiles.

Key facts

• Country: Malaysia
• City: Putrajaya
• Founded: 2014
• Students: 3,500
• Global ranking: #287
• Acceptance rate: 60%
• Tuition: €8,000–€16,000 per year
• Average living cost: €520/month
• Application deadline: 2026-09-01
• Languages of instruction: English

Programs

• Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering) — €10,500/yr , 4 years
• Cyber Security (Bachelor, Cyber Security) — €10,500/yr , 3 years
• Data Science (Bachelor, Data Science) — €10,500/yr , 3 years
• International Business Management (Bachelor, International Business) — €9,700/yr , 3 years
• Human Resource Management (Bachelor, Human Resource Management) — €9,500/yr , 3 years
• Quantity Surveying (Bachelor, Quantity Surveying) — €9,700/yr , 3 years
• MSc Interior Architectural Design (Master, Interior Design) — €13,200/yr , 1 years
• MSc Psychology (Conversion) (Master, Psychology) — €13,000/yr , 1 years
• MSc Business Analytics (Master, Business Analytics) — €13,200/yr , 1 years
• Civil Engineering (Bachelor, Civil Engineering) — €10,500/yr , 4 years
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Bachelor, Electrical Engineering) — €10,500/yr , 4 years
• Renewable Energy Engineering (Bachelor, Renewable Energy) — €10,800/yr , 4 years
• Computer Science (Bachelor, Computer Science) — €10,200/yr , 3 years
• Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (Bachelor, Artificial Intelligence) — €10,500/yr , 3 years
• Software Engineering (Bachelor, Software Engineering) — €10,200/yr , 3 years
• Actuarial Science (Bachelor, Actuarial Science) — €10,800/yr , 3 years
• Statistical Data Science (Bachelor, Statistics) — €10,300/yr , 3 years
• Mathematics (Bachelor, Mathematics) — €10,000/yr , 3 years
• Physics (Bachelor, Physics) — €9,800/yr , 3 years
• Chemistry (Bachelor, Chemistry) — €9,800/yr , 3 years
• Biology (Bachelor, Biology) — €9,900/yr , 3 years
• Environmental Science (Bachelor, Environmental Science) — €9,900/yr , 3 years
• Business Management (Bachelor, Business / Management) — €9,500/yr , 3 years
• Economics (Bachelor, Economics) — €9,500/yr , 3 years
• Accounting (Bachelor, Accounting) — €9,500/yr , 3 years
• Accounting and Finance (Bachelor, Accounting / Finance) — €9,700/yr , 3 years
• Finance (Bachelor, Finance) — €9,700/yr , 3 years
• Marketing (Bachelor, Marketing) — €9,500/yr , 3 years
• Business Analytics (Bachelor, Business Analytics) — €9,900/yr , 3 years
• Fashion Marketing and Management (Bachelor, Fashion Marketing) — €10,000/yr , 3 years
• Fashion Communication (Bachelor, Fashion Communication) — €10,000/yr , 3 years
• Interior Design (Bachelor, Interior Design) — €10,200/yr , 3 years
• Construction Project Management (Bachelor, Construction Management) — €9,700/yr , 3 years
• Psychology (Bachelor, Psychology) — €10,200/yr , 3 years
• Sociology (Bachelor, Sociology) — €9,200/yr , 3 years
• English Language and Communication (Bachelor, English Language Studies) — €9,200/yr , 3 years
• International Relations and Politics (Bachelor, International Relations) — €9,200/yr , 3 years
• MSc Artificial Intelligence (Master, Artificial Intelligence) — €12,500/yr , 1 years
• MSc Data Science (Master, Data Science) — €12,500/yr , 1 years
• MSc Advanced Computer Science (Master, Computer Science) — €12,000/yr , 1 years
• MSc Actuarial Management (Master, Actuarial Science) — €13,500/yr , 1 years
• MSc Renewable Energy Engineering (Master, Renewable Energy) — €12,800/yr , 1 years
• MSc Mechanical Engineering (Master, Mechanical Engineering) — €12,200/yr , 1 years
• MSc Civil Engineering (Master, Civil Engineering) — €12,200/yr , 1 years
• MSc Construction Project Management (Master, Construction Management) — €12,000/yr , 1 years
• MSc Quantity Surveying (Master, Quantity Surveying) — €12,000/yr , 1 years
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Master, Business Administration) — €16,000/yr , 1 years
• MSc Finance (Master, Finance) — €13,000/yr , 1 years
• MSc Management (Master, Management) — €12,500/yr , 1 years
• MSc International Business Management (Master, International Business) — €12,800/yr , 1 years