Universiti Utara Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) is a public university that was established on February 16, 1984, under the Universiti Utara Malaysia 1984 Order. The university is located in Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia, and it also has a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur. The main campus covers an area of 1,061 hectares in Sintok, and it opened on September 15, 1990. The campus is situated in a valley surrounded by lush tropical forests and blue hills, and two rivers flow through the campus.
The university has evolved into an open campus where outsiders and tourists visit. The facilities available to visitors include a picnic area, a deer farm, a nine-hole golf course, a go-kart circuit, a shooting and archery range, and an equestrian site. UUM has been ranked 481 in the QS World University Rankings 2023.
The university’s permanent campus in Sintok houses the Sultanah Bahiyah Library, the Chancellery, the Sultan Badlishah Mosque, the Mu’adzam Shah Hall, the Tan Sri Othman Hall, the Sports Complex, the Varsity Mall, the Budi Siswa building, the Convention Complex, and the buildings that house the departments of the academic colleges. The university has three main academic colleges: UUM College of Business (COB), UUM College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), and UUM College of Law, Government and International Studies (COLGIS).
The Kuala Lumpur campus is the first UUM fully owned study centre outside Sintok and is a non-residential campus that occupies a nine-storey building in the city center along Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz in the Kampung Baru area and adjacent to Chow Kit.
UUM offers business administration, accountancy, finance, economics, banking, marketing, human resource management, insurance and risk management, Islamic banking and finance, muamalat, operations management, and technology management, among other courses. Under the umbrella of UUM CAS, there are five academic divisions – Applied Sciences, Educational Studies, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences – each headed by a chairperson.