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398 USEFUL INFORMATION
The 2,200-acre campus of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), the leading education institution in East Malaysia. Inset: UNIMAS students meeting visiting NASA astronauts.
government’s commitment to life-long education.
The private sector further provides a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Universities, university colleges and branch campuses award their own or their parent university’s degrees, while many colleges offer accredited external degrees (usually from the UK, USA or Australia) and twinning or
exchange programs. The private sector offers 435 private higher education institutions consisting
of 53 universities, 10 foreign branch campuses, 37 university colleges and 335 colleges.
Whilst the majority
of tertiary students
are local, Malaysia is developing into a major international hub for higher education. The number
of overseas students
studying in Malaysia
is 93,478 students for Public and Private Higher Learning Institutions. Roughly one third of international students are from Indonesia and China, with the rest mostly from the Middle East, Africa
and West Asia. However, Malaysian universities are increasingly recruiting students from sub-Saharan Africa, and there is also
an emerging trend for students from developed countries to spend part
of their undergraduate course in Malaysia or conduct postgraduate studies here. In view of
this positive development, the government aims to achieve an enrolment of 250,000 international students by 2025.
Students are attracted to Malaysia by affordable tuition fees, high standard of tuition, English as teaching medium, the
Limkokwing University is leading the effort to turn Malaysia into a global Education hub.