Universiti Malaya

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Universiti Malaya (UM), founded in 1949 and Malaysia's oldest and top-ranked university, sits on a 750-acre campus in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. It is a comprehensive research university with 17 faculties spanning engineering, medicine, law, business, computer science and the humanities, and holds accreditation from the Malaysian Qualifications Agency alongside international recognitions including AACSB for its business programmes and Washington Accord status for engineering. With around 39,000 students, including over 12,000 international students from more than 80 countries, and research collaborations with Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and NUS, UM consistently ranks as Malaysia's #1 university and among the world's top 60.

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