University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham Malaysia is a private university branch campus situated in Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia. Established in 2000, it was the first campus of a British university in Malaysia and the first to open outside Britain, receiving the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2001 and the Queen’s Award for Industry in 2006. The campus is run as a company called The University of Nottingham Malaysia Sdn Bhd, and the majority shareholder is Boustead Holdings. The Malaysia campus is primarily based on a 118-acre plot situated in Semenyih, Selangor, with a city teaching facility in Kuala Lumpur’s central business district. The university has been ranked as “excellent” or tier 5 by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education.
The University of Nottingham Malaysia offers a variety of taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It conducts projects for research-based postgraduate studies, and there are more than 20 research programmes being carried out at the Malaysia Campus. The university’s research focuses on future food Malaysia and developing sustainable societies, nanotechnology, inclusion in the workplace, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, among others.
The campus has a sports complex that houses recreational facilities such as two tennis courts, two squash courts, two badminton courts, a 25m swimming pool, a small gym, and one big multipurpose field for rugby, football, frisbee, etc. There is also a martial arts room within the complex. The campus also has a multipurpose hall with two multipurpose courts for basketball, dodgeball, futsal, volleyball, and even badminton.
The university offers a variety of on-campus accommodation with a capacity for 2,400 students. Newer accommodation consisting of six halls of residence are located in Student Village North (J Halls), while Student Village South (I Halls) consist of five halls of residence completed when the purpose-built campus was first constructed. The accommodation halls were named after Malaysian islands including Sipadan, Mabul, Lankayan, Rawa, Gemia, and Perhentian.
The University of Nottingham Malaysia has a five-star rating in the Malaysia Research Assessment (MyRA) for research excellence, and the only foreign university in Malaysia to be awarded two consecutive MyRAs. The university has 280 academic staff, and apart from the taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, it also operates a biotechnology research centre, which is a 986-square-metre research centre specializing in the applied research of biotechnology products, specifically palm oil crop.
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