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Seal of Universiti Teknologi MARA |
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| Motto | Usaha Taqwa Mulia |
| Motto in English | Endeavour, Religious, Dignified[1] |
| Established | November 1956[2] |
| Type | Public |
| Chairman | Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Wan Mohd Zahid Mohd Noordin [3] |
| Chancellor | HRH Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-pertuan Agong XIII Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah[4] |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dato' Professor Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar [5][6] |
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| Students | 40,000 on main campus and 80,000 throughout the country |
| Location | Shah Alam, Malaysia |
| Campus | 12 state branches |
| Former names | RIDA Training Centre (1956-1965), MARA College (1965-1967), MARA Institute of Technology (1967-1999)[1] |
| Colours | Purple and Blue |
| Website | www.uitm.edu.my |
Universiti Teknologi MARA (Abbreviation: UiTM; English: MARA University of Technology[1][Note 1]) is a coeducational public university with its main campus located in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. It is the flagship institution of the Universiti Teknologi MARA System, the largest university in Malaysia in terms of size and student enrollment[8] and the only public university carrying out intakes twice a year.[9]
The university has expanded nationwide with four satellite campuses, 12 branch campuses, nine city campuses and 21 affiliated colleges. With this network and over 17,000 staff, the university offers more than 300 academic programmes. It is home to some 172,000 students: bumiputeras and international students.[8] The teaching is fully conducted in English.
As of 2011, UiTM has made it to the top 700 universities in The 2011 QS World University Rankings.[10]
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UiTM is closely linked to the development of the independent Malaysian nation. It began in November 1956 as Dewan Latehan RIDA (Rural and Industrial Development Authority Training Center) in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.[1] The school became known as Maktab MARA (MARA College) in 1965. The name change meant that the college no longer operated under RIDA and instead became the most important unit of the MARA Training Division. MARA stands for Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Council of Trust for the People) under the charismatic and dynamic leadership of Tan Sri Arshad Ayub.
In 1967, the school was renamed as Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM). Its establishment came as a response to a need in Malaysia for trained professionals, especially among Bumiputeras.
ITM's development took three major stages: From 1967 to 1976, ITM was an autonomous body with its own 300 acre (1.2 km²) campus in Shah Alam, operating under the Ministry of Rural Development. From 1976 to 1996, ITM advanced as an institution of higher learning and not only a professional training institute, operating directly under the Ministry of Education. In 1996, an amendment to the ITM Act of 1976 put ITM on a par with all the universities in Malaysia, but its name was retained until 1999. Then it became Universiti Teknologi MARA. [11][12][13][14]However, the abbreviation was to be known as UiTM to differentiate it from UTM Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, which is a wholly separate university, based in Johor.
University admission is open to Bumiputeras and international students only, except for preparatory programmes conducted at INTEC where non-Bumiputras are admitted. The university's faculties comprise about 4,000 academics, scholars and researchers.
There are 24 faculties, two academic centres and 312 programmes in UiTM. Faculties are as listed below (in alphabetical order of the faculty code per cluster):
Science
1. Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying (AP)
2. Faculty of Applied Science (AS)
3. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology (AT) )
4. Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CS)
5. Faculty of Sport and Recreational Sciences (SR)
Medical Science
6. Faculty of Dentistry (DS)
7. Faculty of Health Science (HS)
8. Faculty of Medicine (MD)
9. Faculty of Pharmacy (PH)
Engineering
10. Faculty of Civil Engineering (EC)
11. Faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE)
12. Faculty of Chemical Engineering (EH)
13. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (EM)
Social Science
14. Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies (AM)
15. Faculty of Law (LW)
16. Faculty of Communication and Media Studies (MC)
Humanities
17. Faculty of Art and Design (AD)
18. Faculty of Education (ED)
19. Faculty of Artistic and Creative Technology (CT)
20. Faculty of Music (MU)
Business and Management
21. Faculty of Accountancy (AC)
22. Faculty of Business Management (BM)[Note 2]
23. Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management (HM)
24. Faculty of Information Management (IM)
1. Academy of Language Studies (APB) (Website)
2. Centre for Islamic Thought and Understanding (CITU) (Website)
The university has a nationwide presence, with a main campus, four satellite campuses, 12 state/branch campuses, seven city campuses, three town campuses, and 19 affiliated colleges. The main campus is in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor, about 25 km southwest of Kuala Lumpur.
Presently, Shah Alam is host to 45.5% of the students, while the rest are distributed over the other campuses, with Arau campus handling the biggest number (6.3%). These campuses provide opportunities for Bumiputeras all over the country to pursue higher education and attain higher economic and social development.
There are presently four satellite campuses: Jalan Othman campus in Petaling Jaya, Section 17 campus, Puncak Perdana campus, and Puncak Alam campus. These campuses house specialist programmes and are different from branch campuses, which usually offer a bigger range of academic programmes.
Jalan Othman campus is situated in the old part of Petaling Jaya and is less than a kilometre away from the old PJ town centre. This campus was where UiTM first started in 1956 as Dewan Latehan RIDA. Today, the Faculty of Art and Design (Masters and Doctorates) are on the premises.
UiTM Section 17 campus is about 3 kilometres away from the main campus. It was formerly known as the Centre for Preparatory Studies or ‘Pusat Pendidikan Persediaan’ (PPP), a centre that prepared government-sponsored students and those from private agencies for a university education in several European and Asian countries. Today, the International Education Centre (INTEC) continues the tradition set out by its predecessor and prepares these sponsored students to an even wider range of foreign universities. INTEC is also the only campus which takes non-bumiputra students in its enrollment. The other faculties that share Section 17 campus facilities and services are the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Music.
Puncak Perdana campus started operating in June 2004. The academic programmes that are on offer at this campus are those run by the Faculty of Information Management, the Faculty of Accountancy and the Faculty of Artistic and Creative Technology.
This campus houses facilities and services, laboratories and classrooms.
As other public universities in Malaysia, there are residential halls for students. There are no less than 10 colleges for its main campus.There are eight colleges in the main campus; other colleges are outside the main campus.
Some of these ties go back a long way, such as with Ealing Technical College in the 1960s and Ohio University in the 1980s [15], and they have become a benchmark for UiTM's academic programs and research.
UiTM alumni have achieved prominence in many fields, including a Chief Judge for Sabah and Sarawak; prominent lawyers; scientists[16]; physicians; politicians; academicians; CEOs; artists; journalists; entrepreneurs; members of parliament; and Cabinet Ministers.
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