Open University Malaysia
| Open University Malaysia | |
|---|---|
| motto | Universiti Untuk Semua (University for everyone) |
| founding | 2000 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia |
| Vice-Chancellor and President | Anuwar Ali |
| Students | approximately 79,000 |
| Website | www.oum.edu.my |
The Open University Malaysia (OUM) (mal. Universiti Terbuka Malaysia) in Kuala Lumpur is a private distance university in Malaysia . It was founded in 2000 from a network of several state universities and is now a university with around 80,000 students.
history
One of the areas of the major project of the State of Malaysia Vision 2020 is to increase the level of education of broad sections of the population. In 1999, the Minister of Education asked Multimedia Technology Enhancement Operations Sdn Bhd (METEOR) , a private company of eleven state universities, to establish a private distance learning university. It was founded in 2000 and the course began in 2001 with 750 students.
organization
The university's chancellor is an honorary post and is filled by a well-known personality, while the university's full-time management is headed by the vice-chancellor . In addition to the main campus in Kuala Lumpur, there are 56 study centers in various locations in Malaysia.
The university consists of the following faculties and centers:
- Faculty of Business & Management
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
- Faculty of Education & Languages
- Faculty of Information Technology & Multimedia Communication
- Center for Graduate Studies
- Center for Assessment of Prior Learning
- School of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
See also
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Open University Malaysia: University Profile ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) dated February 19, 2010. Accessed August 20, 2010
- ↑ a b Open University Malaysia: Faculties and Academic Programs ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) dated April 20, 2009. Accessed August 20, 2010
Coordinates: 3 ° 9 ′ 35 ″ N , 101 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ E