National University of Malaysia (NUM)


The National University of Malaysia (contraction: NUM; Malay: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; contracted UKM is a state funded college spotted in Bangi, Selangor which is around 35 km south of Kuala Lumpur. Its showing healing center, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center (UKMMC) Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM) is placed in Cheras furthermore has a limb grounds in Kuala Lumpur. There are 17,500 college understudies selected, and 5,105 postgraduate understudies of which 1368 are outside understudies from 35 countries.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is one of five exploration colleges in the nation. It was positioned number 259th on the planet by QS World University Rankings in 2014. It is positioned 98th place in the 100 best new colleges built inside the most recent 50 years on the planet. It is the main college from Malaysia that made it in the 2012 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Top 50 Universities Under 50 Years Old rundown positioned in the 31st spot. It put 53rd and 58th in the QS Top 500 Asian University Rankings in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, the national college of Malaysia was conceived from the yearnings of the patriots to maintain the Malay Language as a dialect of learning. The journey for a national college was proposed in 1923 by the author Abdul Kadir Adabi as a move against British colonization. This patriot tide electrifies Malay educated people of the time yet met British concealment. The patriots never wavered and in 1969 the development again bloomed. A Sponsoring Committee led by Syed Nasir Ismail, a Malay learned, was situated up to set up a report suggesting the foundation of UKM. Other conspicuous individuals from this board incorporate Dr. Mahathir Mohamed (Tun), Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister who was then the Education Minister, and Dr. Mohd Rashdan Haji Baba, who later turned into UKM's first Vice Chancellor.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia opened its entryways on 18 May 1970 to 192 college understudies in Jalan Pantai Baru, Kuala Lumpur, a transitory grounds lodging three principle staffs, the Faculties of Science, Arts and Islamic Studies. In October 1977, UKM moved to its available premises which structure the principle grounds in Bangi. The grounds has a size of 1,096 hectares, arranged in the city including the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur, the fundamental business focus, and Putrajaya, the regulatory capital. The UKM Bangi Campus is 45 km from KLIA, 30 km from Kuala Lumpur and 20 km from Putrajaya.

UKM has two wellbeing grounds, the Kuala Lumpur grounds in Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, and the UKM Medical Center in Cheras. The Kuala Lumpur grounds comprises of the Faculties of Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Dentistry and the Pre-Clinical Departments of the Medical Faculty. With a size of 20 hectares, the Kuala Lumpur grounds was created in 1974.

The grounds in Cheras comprises of the Medical Faculty, the UKM Teaching Hospital and the UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI). The Cheras grounds was opened in 1997. Other than these grounds, UKM works seven examination stations (RS); The Tasik Chini RS, The Marine Ecosystem RS, The Langkawi Geopark RS, The Marine RS, The Fraser's Hill RS, The Plant Biotechnology RS and in the primary grounds itself, the UKM Campus Living Laboratory, which involves the UKM Permanent Forest Reserve, or its Malay name, Hutan Simpan Kekal UKM and the Fernarium and the Herbarium.

Taking into account an establishment of 30 years of exploration, UKM was granted the status of a Malaysian Research University in October 2006 by the Ministry of Higher Education, a move intended to push the four state funded colleges into driving examination colleges in accordance with the Higher Education Strategic Plan 2007-2020.

The year 2006 likewise saw UKM winning the Prime Minister's Quality Award. This grant vindicates UKM's endeavors at quality instruction and administration, as laid out by the destinations of the UKM Strategic Plan 2000-2020 (PS2020). The Strategic Plan has been enlarged by the recently divulged UKM Knowledge Ecosystem Transformation Plan, a change set to sling UKM into the group of driving exploration colleges by 2018.
Address: Jalan Reko, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Registration: 22.605 (2006)
Phone: +60 3-8921 5555
Estabilished: 1970
Motto: Inspiring Futures, Nurturing Possibilities
Faculties
  • Sociology and Humanities (created in 1970 as Faculty of Arts)
  • Science and Technology (built in 1970 as Faculty of Sciences)
  • Islamic Studies (built in 1970)
The three above make up the establishing workforces.
  • Medicine
  • Wellbeing Sciences
  • Dentistry
  • Financial matters and Business
  • Instruction
  • Designing and Built Environment
  • Master's level college of Business
  • Data Science and Technology
  • Pharmacy
Centres
  • Place for Academic Advancement
  • Place for Corporate Communications
  • Place for Corporate Planning & Communications
  • Place for General Studies
  • Place for Graduate Management
  • Place for Information Technology
  • Place for Publication and Printing
  • Place for Research and Innovation Management
  • Place for Students Advancement
  • PERMATApintar National Gifted Center
  • UKM Islamic Center
  • UKM Medical Center
Institutes
  • Energy component Institute
  • Inst. for Environment & Development (LESTARI)
  • Inst. for Malaysian & International Studies (IKMAS)
  • Foundation 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)
  • Medicinal Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI)
  • Sunlight based Energy Research Institute (SERI)
  • Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute (SEADPRI-UKM)

Rankings

YearRankValuer
2005185Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2006185Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2007309Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2008250Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2009291Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2010263QS World University Rankings
2011279QS World University Rankings
2012261QS World University Rankings
2012N/A (did not submit data)Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Notable Alumni
  1. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, country's first astronaut
  2. Syed Hussein Alatas, academic
  3. Liow Tiong Lai, Minister of Health
  4. Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch, United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in New York
  5. Anwar Fazal, Father of Malaysian NGO Movement - Honorary Doctorate in Law - 1997
  6. Datuk Razali Ibrahim, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports (read law)
  7. Dato' Halimi Abd Manaf, Deputy Secretary General of Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government
source: NUM wikipedia

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