University of Malaya
Universiti Malaya (UM) is Malaysia’s first and leading research university, established through the merging of King Edward VII College of Medicine (1905) and Raffles College (1928) on 8 October 1949. Situated on an 812-acre campus in the southwest of Kuala Lumpur, UM is a comprehensive university with multidisciplinary academic programmes and research encompassing medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities. Ranked amongst the top 100 universities in the world, UM has played a pivotal role in the human capital development of the country and remains at the forefront of scientific and medical discoveries, as is evidenced by numerous awards, both locally and internationally.