University of Malaya

The University of Malaya is Malaysia's oldest public university, based on a main campus in Kuala Lumpur. It grew from the King Edward VII College of Medicine (1905) and Raffles College in Singapore, which formed the University of Malaya in 1949; after a 1962 split, the Kuala Lumpur campus continued as Universiti Malaya. It is a comprehensive faculty-based national university, not a collegiate institution.

Faculties cover medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, science, computer science, built environment, business and economics, arts and social sciences, law, education, and languages. Clinical graduate training is centered on the University of Malaya Medical Centre on the Pantai campus. Research institutes include the Asia-Europe Institute and units in medical and environmental science.

About 30,000 students enroll, with a large graduate share and international students from Southeast Asia, China, South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Faculty number in the thousands. Alumni include prime ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Anwar Ibrahim.

Graduate degrees include taught and research master's programs and the Ph.D. by thesis, plus professional qualifications in medicine, dentistry, and law. Supervision follows a faculty-advisor model. The academic year typically starts in October. Students live and study in Pantai Valley, a compact campus with residential colleges and a teaching hospital in southwest Kuala Lumpur.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Malaya lists 1 doctoral program, in area studies. University of Malaya holds rank 147 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.