University Sains Malaysia (USM) is a public university in
Malaysia. There are 3 campuses; Penang(Main Campus), Kelantan (Health Campus)
& Nibong Tebal (Engineering Campus). There is offshore collaboration with
KLE University, India offering the Doctor of Medicine (USM) undergraduate
degree. USM plans to open a Global Campus (Kuala Lumpur Campus) located at
Kuala Lumpur Education City (KLCE).
With around 28,300 postgraduate & undergraduate students in
2009, USM is the one of the biggest universities in term of enrollment in
Malaysia. The number of lectures is abt 1,479, which leads to a
student-lecturer ration of around 1:19. USM has won the Asian Innovation Award
in which USM emerged as the only winner from this country.
The establishment of USM began with an agreement through a
resolution which was approved by the Penang State Legislative Assembly in 1962,
which called for the establishment of a university college in the state. The
acquisition of a piece of land in Sungai Ara was then followed by the
ceremonial laying of the foundation stone by the then Prime Minister of
Malaysia, Y.T.M Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj on 7 August 1967.
USM was established in 1969 as the second university in Malaysia.
It was first known as Universiti Pulau
Pinang. The university operated on borrowed premises at the Malayan
Teachers' Training College at Gelugor. In 1971, it moved to its present
239-hectare site at Minden in Gelugor, 10 km from the city of Georgetown.
Universiti Sains Malaysia teaches in the fields of Pure Sciences,
Applied Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Building Science and Technology,
Social Sciences, Humanities and Education as well as conducts research.
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