The University of Malaya (or UM) is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest university in Malaysia. The university's name was abbreviated as Malaya during the pre-independence period.
The university was founded in 1949 as a public-funded tertiary institution. Today, it has more than 2,500 faculty members. In 2012, UM was granted autonomy status by the Ministry of Higher Education
In 2011, UM was ranked at 401 to 500 in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). And the THES – QS World University Rankings has ranked UM in the top 200 universities of the world.
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