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UUM/UNMC Potential Collaboration
Professor Graham Kendall, Vice-Provost (Research & Knowledge Transfer)
Welcome to Semenyih Campus

History
• Began as an adult education centre in 1798
• University College 1881
• Granted its Royal Charter in 1948
• Malaysia Campus Opened in 2000
• China Campus Opened in 2005

University of Nottingham
• 39 000 students, 30 000 in the UK
• UK. University Top 10 - 7 th in Research Assessment
Exercise 2008
• World Top 75 – QS Apple.
• World Top 100 - Shanghai Jiao Tong.
• World Top 200 – Times Higher.
• Runner Up, Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ 2010

Malaysia Campus
• 1998. Invited by then Education Minister Dato’ Sri Najib
Tun Razak to Establish a Branch Campus.
• Fully Integrated Branch Campus of the University of
Nottingham UK.
• MQA Self Accrediting Status, May 2010.
• Tier 5 (Excellent) SETARA Rated, July 2010.
• MYRA 4 * rated 2011.
•

Branch Campus
• Only Programmes Fully Approved in Nottingham
are Delivered in Malaysia
• All Quality Assurance is Through Nottingham UK
Curriculum
Assessment
Results
Awards

• Malaysia Campus: A Brief History
• Initially located at Wisma MISC, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur.
• First Student intake; September 2000
• First Postgraduate Graduation; January 2002
• First Undergraduate Graduation; January 2004
• Moved to the new campus at Semenyih; September 2005.
• 3820 students as of October 2010.

Malaysia Campus - A Brief History
• Initially located at Wisma MISC, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur.
• Programmes in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Business
Studies and Computer Science.
• First Student intake; September 2000.
• Student Numbers
2000-01: 86
2001-02: 196
2002-03: 435

Malaysia Campus: A Brief History
• Initially located at Wisma MISC, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur.
• First Student intake; September 2000
• First Postgraduate Graduation; January 2002
• First Undergraduate Graduation; January 2004
• Moved to the new campus at Semenyih; September 2005.
• 3780 students registered as of October 2010.

State-of-the-art Semenyih Campus
• 101 acre site
• New purpose built campus
• First purpose built campus of a British university
outside the UK
• Opened in Aug 2005
• Teaching began in Sept 2005

General view across site January 2004

City Centre Teaching Facility
New teaching centre in Chulan Tower, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur where
some of the postgraduate programmes, including business/management
and education, are delivered.

Student Numbers
Total
International
Sept 2003 650 162 (25%)
Sept 2004 950 230 (24%)
Sept 2005 1400 420 (30%)
Sept 2006 2000 600 (30%)
Sept 2007 2750 986 (36%)
Sept 2008 3224 1213 (38%)
Sept 2009 3520 1337 (37%)
Sept 2010 3780 1436 (38%)
Sept 2011 4022* xxx (xx)
* intake still in progress

Faculty Structure
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Science

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Business School
I-WHO
Law
School of Education
School of English Language Education
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
School of Economics
School of Politics, History and International Relations

Faculty of Engineering
• Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing
Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Department of Applied Mathematics

Faculty of Science
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Biosciences
• School of Computer Science
• School of Psychology
• School of Biomedical Sciences
• School of Geography

Staff
453 Staff in Total:
195 Academics – Over 30 Nationalities
258 Support
21 Seconded/International, Predominantly Academics.

Student Numbers
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
Foundation
UG
PGT
PGR
Total
500
0
Mar-08 Mar-09 Mar-10 Mar-11

Number of Schools/Depts.
20
Number of Schools
18
16
14
12
10
8
Number of Schools
6
4
2
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Number of Taught Programmes
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
Undergraduate
Post Graduate
15
10
5
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Staff Numbers
600
500
400
300
200
Academic
Support
Total
100
0
Aug-07 Aug-08 Aug-09 Aug-10 Aug-11

Research
• Significant Recent Success
• Crops for the Future
• Malaysian Govt.
• European Union
• Growing PhD Population ( 171 to 249 in the
last 2 years)