National University of Malaysia

"UKM" redirects here. For other uses, see UKM (disambiguation).

The National University of Malaysia

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malay) اونيۏرسيتي كبڠسا ٴن مليسيا (Malay) மலேசிய தேசிய பல்கலைக்கழகம் (Tamil) اونيۏرسيتي كبڠسا ٴن مليسيا
Coat of arms
Motto	Ilmu, Mutu dan Budi[1]
Motto in English	Knowledge, Quality and Virtue[2]
Type	Public research university
Established	18 May 1970; 54 years ago (18 May 1970)
Chancellor	Tuanku Muhriz ibni Almarhum Tuanku Munawir
Vice-Chancellor	Mohd Ekhwan Toriman
Pro-Chancellors	Tunku Ali Redhauddin ibni Tuanku Muhriz Mohd Zuki Ali Rafiah Salim
Students	28,776 (2020)[3]
Undergraduates	16,720 (2023)[3]
Postgraduates	12,056 (2022)[3]
Address	Lingkungan Ilmu, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia , Bandar Baru Bangi , Selangor , Malaysia 02°55′30″N 101°46′53″E
Affiliations	ACU, ASAIHL, AUN, AUAP,[4] UAiTED
Website	www.ukm.my

Main gate

The National University of Malaysia (Malay: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, abbreviated as UKM) is a public research university located in Bandar Baru Bangi, Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia. Its teaching hospital, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC), is located in Cheras and also has a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur.

There are 170,500 undergraduate students enrolled, and 90,105 postgraduate students of which 40,368 are foreign students from 35 countries.^[5] Since its establishment in 1970, the Malay language was used as the university's medium of instruction.

History

A Sponsoring Committee chaired by Syed Nasir Ismail, a Malay intellectual, was set up to prepare a report recommending the establishment of UKM. Other prominent members of this committee include Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (Tun), Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister, who was then the Education Minister, and Dr. Mohd Rashdan Haji Baba, who later became UKM's first Vice-Chancellor.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia opened its doors on 18 May 1970 to 192 undergraduate students in Jalan Pantai Baru, Kuala Lumpur, a temporary campus housing three main faculties, the Faculties of Science, Arts and Islamic Studies.^[6] In October 1977, UKM moved to its present premises which form the main campus in Bangi. The campus has a size of 1,096 ha (2,710 acres). UKM has two health campuses, the Kuala Lumpur campus in Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, and the UKM Medical Centre in Cheras. The Kuala Lumpur campus consists of the Faculties of Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Dentistry and the Pre-Clinical Departments of the Medical Faculty. With a size of 20 ha (49 acres), the Kuala Lumpur campus was established in 1974.

The campus in Cheras consists of the Medical Faculty, the UKM Teaching Hospital (Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM (HCTM)) and the UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI). The Cheras campus was opened in 1997. Besides these campuses, UKM operates seven research 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 main campus itself, the UKM Campus Living Laboratory, which comprises the UKM Permanent Forest Reserve, or its Malay name, Hutan Simpan Kekal UKM as well as the Fernarium and the Herbarium.

UKM was awarded the status of a Malaysian Research University in October 2006 by the Ministry of Higher Education, a move designed to try to propel the universities into leading research universities in line with the Higher Education Strategic Plan 2007–2020.

In 2006, UKM won the Prime Minister's Quality Award.

Coat of arms

The current coat of arms of the UKM was first designed by university staffer Mohd Aris Atan and has been in use since 1972. It was modified to its present form by publications officer Zulkifli Ibrahim, which was launched on 29 July 2000 in conjunction with the university's 30th anniversary, with stripes added to the tiger's body.^[7][8] The arms is depicted as a quartered shield featuring an atomic symbol, a compass, a gear, a Malayan tiger and the national flower, Bunga Raya, or hibiscus rosa-sinensis, with an overlaid book placed on top of it. The atomic symbol represents science, the compasses and gear represent technology, the tiger represents strength and courage and the book represents knowledge.^[9] It is blazoned:

• Shield: Tierced per pall reversed, the dexter Or a conventional representation of an atom Sable, the sinister Azure a pair of Compasses erect and extended between a demi cogwheel Argent, the base Argent a Bunga Raya or hibiscus flower proper, a chief Gules thereon a tiger passant to the sinister also proper.
• Crest: An open book fesswise proper.

The first coat of arms of the university designed by the First Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, was different from the present one. It was blazoned as:

Tierced per pall reversed, the dexter Gules on a bend Azure fimbriated Argent a cresent and a fourteen-pointed federal star Or, the sinister Vert a tiger holding a torch and a kris proper and the base Or a Bunga Raya or hibiscus flower also proper.

The crest featured a scroll inscribed with the words 'Zidni Ilman', which means increase me in knowledge, a reference to the word in Surah 20 Taha, Verse 114 of the Quran.^[10]

In 2010, the University's corporate logo was created by its Centre for Corporate Communications, featuring the coat of arms accompanied by the names of the university in Malay and English. The Malay name (UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA) is big and presented in upper case, with the letters U, K and M bigger than the rest. The English name (The National University of Malaysia) is small, italicised and presented in sentence case.

The National University of Malaysia is currently one of the three public universities in Malaysia to adopt its coat of arms, the other two are the University of Malaya and Universiti Sains Malaysia.

List of vice-chancellors

The following is a list of vice-chancellors of the National University of Malaysia.

Vice-Chancellor	Academic Qualification	Term in office
1 Rashdan Baba	Diploma of Agriculture (Malaya Agriculture College), Bachelor of Agriculture Science (Reading, UK), PhD in Agriculture Science (Leeds, UK).	1970–1971
2 Ariffin Ngah Marzuki	Bachelor of Medical & Surgery-MBBS (Malaya), Master of Surgeon in Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG, UK).	1971–1974
3 Mohd Ghazali Abdul Rahman	Bachelor of Science (Western Australia), PhD in Science (Western Australia).	1974–1975
4 Anuwar Mahmud	Bachelor of Veterinary Science (India), Master of Science (Hawaii, US).	1975–1980
5 Awang Had Salleh	Bachelor of Arts in Malay Studies (Malaya), Master of Education (Malaya), PhD in Education & Sociology (Stanford, US).	1980–1984
6 Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman		1984–1993
7 Mohd Sham Mohd Sani	Bachelor of Arts in Geography (Canterbury, New Zealand), PhD in Geography (UKM).	1993–1998
8 Anuwar Ali	Bachelor of Science in Economics (Queen’s, Ireland), Master of Economics (Leicester, UK), PhD in Economics (Kent, UK).	1998–2003
9 Mohd Salleh Mohd Yasin	Bachelor of Biological Science (ITB, Indonesia), PhD in Science (Bath, UK).	2003–2006
10 Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin	Bachelor of Medical & Surgery-MBBS (Malaya), Master of Health Science in Personnel Education (NSW, Australia), PhD (NSW, Australia).	2006–2014
11 Noor Azlan Ghazali	Bachelor of Economics (Malaya), Master of Public Administration (Harvard, US), Master of Business Administration (Nebraska-Lincoln, US), PhD in Economics (Nebraska-Lincoln, US).	2014–2018
12 Mohd Hamdi Abdul Shukor	Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Imperial College, London), Master of Science in Advanced Manufacturing Technology and System Management (Manchester, UK), PhD in Engineering (Kyoto, Japan).	2019–2020
13 Mohd Ekhwan Toriman	Ph.D (Hydrogeomorphology and GIS application). Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) M.Sc (Hydrogeomorphology). Faculty of Science & Engineering. (University of Manchester) B.A (Hons) (Physical Geography), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. B. A (Geography). Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.	2021–incumbent

Faculties, Schools and Institutes

As of November 2024, there are a total of 12 faculties,^[11][12] 2 schools^[11][12] and 12 research institutes^[13][14] in UKM offering various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Majority of them are located in the main UKM campus in Bangi.

Faculties

English Name	Malay Name	Abbreviation	Campus
Faculty of Economics and Management	Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan	FEP	Bangi
Faculty of Education	Fakulti Pendidikan	FPEND
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment	Fakulti Kejuruteraan dan Alam Bina	FKAB
Faculty of Information Science and Technology	Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat	FTSM
Faculty of Islamic Studies	Fakulti Pengajian Islam	FPI
Faculty of Law	Fakulti Undang-Undang	FUU
Faculty of Science and Technology	Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi	FST
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities	Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan	FSSK
Faculty of Dentistry	Fakulti Pergigian	FGG	Kuala Lumpur
Faculty of Health Sciences	Fakulti Sains Kesihatan	FSK
Faculty of Pharmacy	Fakulti Farmasi	FFAR
Faculty of Medicine	Fakulti Perubatan	FPER	Cheras

Schools

English Name	Malay Name	Abbreviation	Campus
UKM-Graduate School of Business	Pusat Pengajian Siswazah Perniagaan	UKM-GSB	Bangi
School of Liberal Studies	Pusat Pengajian Citra Universiti	CITRA

Institutes

English Name	Malay Name	Abbreviation	Campus
Fuel Cell Institute	Institut Sel Fuel	SELFUEL	Bangi
Institute for Environment and Development	Institut Alam Sekitar dan Pembangunan	LESTARI
Institute of Climate Change	Institut Perubahan Iklim	IPI
Institute of Ethnic Studies	Institut Kajian Etnik	KITA
Institute of Islam Hadhari	Institut Islam Hadhari	HADHARI
Institute of Malaysian and International Studies	Institut Kajian Malaysia dan Antarabangsa	IKMAS
Institute of Systems Biology	Institut Biologi Sistem	INBIOSIS
Institute of The Malay World and Civilization	Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu	ATMA
Institute of Visual Informatics	Institut Informatik Visual	IVI
Malaysian Inclusive Development and Advancement Institute	Institut Pembangunan dan Kemajuan Inklusif Malaysia	MINDA UKM
Solar Energy Research Institute	Institut Pembangunan & Kemajuan Inklusif Malaysia	SERI
UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute	Institut Perubahan Molekul UKM	UMBI	Cheras

Notable alumni

Main page: Category:National University of Malaysia alumni

• Anwar Ibrahim, 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia
• Mohd Rashid Hasnon, former Deputy Speaker of Dewan Rakyat and former Deputy Chief Minister I of Penang
• Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysia's first astronaut
• Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian academician, sociologist and politician
• Anthony Loke Siew Fook, Minister of Transport of Malaysia
• Liow Tiong Lai, former Minister of Transport of Malaysia
• Jemilah Mahmood, Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch, United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in New York
• Anwar Fazal, Father of Malaysian NGO Movement – Honorary Doctorate in Law, 1997
• Razali Ibrahim, former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department
• Ramlan Bin Ibrahim, diplomat, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations
• Ayman Rashdan Wong, writer
• Jess Lee, singer
• Mohamad Fuzi Harun, 11th Inspector-General of Royal Malaysian Police
• Mohammad Tashim, 4th Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs of Brunei^[15]
• Nenney Shushaidah Binti Shamsuddin, one of the two female Syariah High Court Judges in Malaysia
• Abdul Hamid Bador, 12th Inspector-General of Royal Malaysian Police
• Mohd Zuki Ali, 15th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia
• Hasrin Sabtu, former Commissioner of Royal Brunei Police Force^[16]
• Alirupendi, former Joint Force Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces^[17][18]
• Raed Qaddoura, Palestinian academic and writer.^[19]
• Zaini Ahmad, Bruneian politician and rebel during the 1962 Brunei revolt^[20]
• Yusoff Ismail, Bruneian politician and diplomat^[21]

Cricket ground

YSD-UKM Cricket Oval

Ground information
Location	Bangi, Malaysia
Establishment	2
Capacity	n/a
Owner	Malaysian Cricket Association
Operator	n/a
Tenants	Malaysia cricket team Malaysia women's national cricket team Article Talk
International information
First T20I	2 July 2022:  Malaysia v  Bhutan
Last T20I	9 September 2024:  Hong Kong v  Kuwait
First WT20I	12 August 2018:  Malaysia v  Singapore
Last WT20I	14 February 2024:  Kuwait v    Nepal
As of 9 September 2024 Source: Cricinfo

Rankings

Year	Rank	Valuer
2005	185	Times Higher Education World University Rankings – QS World University Rankings
2006	185
2007	309
2008	250
2009	291
2010	263	QS World University Rankings
2011	279
2012	261
2012	N/A (did not submit data) [22]	Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2014	=269	QS World University Rankings
2015	=259
2016	=312[23]
2017	=302[24]
2018	=230[24]
2019	=184[24]
2020	=160[24]

When the Times Higher Education (THE) Guide University Rankings was published in October 2014, it was reported that UKM, along with Universiti Malaya, opted not to submit data for consideration. The UKM Strategic Centre deputy executive director Associate, Professor Dr. Masturah Markom, responded by saying that the rankings were unfair to the Malaysian educational context. She specifically cited the measurement of "industry income" in the THE methodology of university assessment, stating that Malaysian industry input cannot compete with other countries such as the United States of America. This is despite the fact that only a 2.5% weightage is allocated to "industry income" in the methodology, with more conventional categories such as teaching and research still making up 90%.^[25][26]

See also

• UKM Medical Centre
• UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI)
• PATMA Library

References

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External links

• Official website
• Official news portal