Universiti Malaya (UM)
Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia's premier public research university, is located in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur and is the oldest institution of higher education in the country. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital city, is the oldest institution of higher education in the country, particularly in the arts and sciences and medicine, with many subject areas enjoying a world-class reputation. According to the 2021 QS World University Rankings, the University of Malaya is ranked 59th, 8th in the 2022 QS Asian University Rankings, 70th in the 2023 QS World University Rankings, 9th in the 2023 QS Asian University Rankings and 65th in the 2024 QS World University Rankings. As the largest and most prestigious university in Malaysia, UM is also committed to nurturing global talent. It has two faculties, ten departments, five centers and a senior college, as well as state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and the largest university library in Malaysia.
The University of Malaya was founded in 1905 as the King Edward VII College of Medicine and in 1929 as Raffles College, which merged to form the University of Malaya on October 8, 1949, with two campuses in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in 1956, and in 1960, the Federal Government of Malaysia indicated that the two campuses would be separated to become two non-affiliated national universities, with the Kuala Lumpur campus retaining the status of a national university. In 1960, the federal government of Malaysia indicated that the two campuses would be separated and become two unaffiliated national universities, with the campus in Kuala Lumpur retaining the name of UM and the campus in Singapore being renamed the University of Singapore, which was renamed the National University of Singapore in 1965 after Singapore gained its independence from Malaysia.In 1973, the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Malaya merged with the Malayan Institute of Agricultural Sciences to form the University of Malaysia Botera.