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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak


Aerial View of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
A view of center part of UNIMAS campus. An artificial lake surrounded with building with green roofs
 

Fakulti Ekonomi dan Perniagaan (FEP) Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

Faculty of Economics & Business

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Consortium of 11 Public Universities
that set up OUM UNIVERSITI TERBUKA MALAYSIA on 10 August 2000
OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

The University’s organization structure:

On 23 January 1998, a consortium of 11 public universities was incorporated as Multimedia Technology Enhancement Operation Sdn Bhd (METEOR), with the main role of developing multimedia technology applications for the education sector. OUM belongs to UNITEM Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of METEOR, as shown in the following organisation chart.
 

UM
University of Malaya

USM
Universiti Sains Malaysia

UTM
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

IIUM
International Islamic University Malaysia

UUM
Universiti Utara Malaysia

UKM
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

UniMAS
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

UMS
Universiti Malaysia Sabah

UPSI
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

UPM
Universiti Putra Malaysia

UiTM
Universiti Teknologi Mara
 

UNIMAS provide a better environment for hostel.

There are 8 hostels in UNIMAS and named as :

1- Kolej Allamanda,
2- Sakura,
3- Cempaka,
4- Bunga Raya,
5- Tun Ahmad Zaidi,
6- Kenanga,
7- Seroja,
8- Kolej Perubatan.

Kolej Perubatan is outside UNIMAS main campus (West and East Campus) and Kolej Seroja is mainly for Pra-University students.
Each Kolej comprises of apartments and each apartment can occupy at least 8 students except Kolej Seroja.

In every apartment, there are pantry, bathrooms, toilets, balcony and dining room. The design of hostel enables students enjoying a pleasant home.

There are many facilities available in UNIMAS include :
1- basketball courts,
2- swimming pool,
3- bowling center,
4- tennis courts,
5- squash courts,
6- stadium.

Students can spend their sparing time in various activities. There is also kayaking activity available in the UNIMAS Lake. For some activities, students only can use the facilities by showing their students’ ID card.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) is embarked on five niche areas of research by taking advantage of the state’s locality, resources and ambitions.

The five niche areas :
1- Biodiversity and Environmental Management,
2- Emerging Tropical Infectious Diseases,
3- Renewable Energy and Green Technology,
4- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Development
5- ICT for Development and Industrial Design.

The university is allocating a major part of their financial and human resources to build strength in these five niche areas.
Centre for Emerging Tropical Infectious Diseases is currently leading research on the common diseases in Borneo.
Unimas is studying on tropical diseases in the environment where they naturally occur. By using both classical and molecular biology tools.

Centre for Emerging Tropical Infectious Diseases is headed by Prof Dr Balbir Singh who is a holder of the prestigious Merdeka Award and listed as one of the Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) by ASM.

In line with the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score), having a niche in Green Technology is instrumental to support Sarawak government in strengthening and rationalizing efforts towards all renewable energy technologies.

Researchers are focused on alternative energy as well as on the reduction of energy consumption to tackle emergent issues associated with global warming and diminishing fossil fuels

The ICT Development research is to benefit Malaysians in attaining a better life and achieving socio economic growth through technology. Research included development of new approaches in working with indigenous groups in Malaysia.

 

QS World University Rankings :

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) remains Sarawak’s only fully government-owned university with its main campus based in Sarawak.

Unimas - Malaysia’s eighth university was established in December 1992. Unimas started with the first batch of 118 undergraduate students in two pioneering faculties – Social Sciences and Resource Sciences & Technology – in the 1993 academic year. The university moved into its permanent campus in Kota Samarahan in 1994 and has continued to show steady progress in many growth indicators.


It has eight faculties ranging from :
1) Applied and Creative Arts,
2) Computer Science and IT,
3) Economics and Business,
4) Engineering to Medicine and Health Sciences. etc


There are the eight centres such as
1) Graduate Studies,
2) Language Studies, etc

UNIMAS has three specialised institutes:
1) Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation;
2) East Asian Studies;
3) Health and Community Medicine

The university currently employs over 770 academic staff with over 13,700 students enrolled (500 pre-university students; 12,000 undergraduates; 1,200 postgraduate students).


There are three major internationally refereed comprehensive ranking of universities in the world:

1) Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE)
2) Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings
3) Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

QS just published its latest university rankings of universities in Asia on 12 June 2013. This annual survey of universities exclusively from Asia was first attempted in 2009. It used a slightly different methodology to that traditionally employed for its worldwide ranking of universities so as to reflect “the region’s different priorities.”


Based on the overall score derived from nine indicators of different weighting, Asian universities are ranked from No. 1-50, then in bands of 10 from 151–200 (ie. 151-160, 161-170, 171-180, 181-190 and 191-200) and finally in bands of 50 from 201 onwards up to 300 (ie. 201-250 and 251-300).
The latest QS Asia rankings for 2013 put Unimas at No. 181-190. Unimas is No. 7 among Malaysian universities. It is ranked above 11 other Malaysian universities in the full list of 300.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

Tertiary Education (Higher Education)
Universities in Sarawak

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
(UNIMAS)
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
Telephone +60 82 671 000, Fax: +60 82 672 411
Location : at Kota Samarahan, 25km from Kuching City via Kuching-Samarahan Expressway.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (University of Malaysia, Sarawak) UNIMAS was officially incorporated on 24 December 1992 as Malaysia's eighth University, established just after the declaration of Vision 2020. UNIMAS ranked at 191st in Asian University Rankings 2011 by QS World University Rankings.

The University took in its first students numbering 118 in 1993 with the opening of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Resource Science and Technology. These students were temporarily located at Kolej Latihan Telekom, Simpang Tiga, Kuching until in 1994 the University moved to its East Campus in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. The University’s East Campus at Kota Samarahan was officially launched on Independence Day, 31 August 1993.

The University consists of eight Faculties, three Institutes and seven Centres.
 

FACULTIES, CENTERS & RESEARCH INSTITUTES AT UNIMAS
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Faculty of Cognitive Sciences & Human Development
Faculty of Social Science
Faculty of Resource Science & Technology
Faculty of Applied & Creative Arts
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
Faculty of Economics & Business

Institute of Biodiversity & Environ Conservation
Institute of Health and Community Medicine
Institute of East Asian Studies
Centre for Student Development
Centre for Graduate Studies
Centre for Academic Information Services
Centre for Applied Learning and Multimedia
Centre for Technology Transfer & Consultancy

Student Affairs
Chancellery
University House
DeTAR PUTRA - Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra

4) Main Lobby - Chancellery

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UniMAS), Kuching City

University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) is a Public university established by the Government of Malaysia in 1993 as the 8th university in the country. It is a huge educational complex of 14 buildings in a vast site of 810 hectares.
They are 5 buildings of 4 university faculties, 5 buildings of research facilities including a library and language

UNIMAS bridge, Tasik UNIMAS and the Water Tower

Water Tower and Suspension Bridge over UNIMAS Lake


There are two symbolize constructions that represent UNIMAS:
1) Water Towers and 2) Suspension Bridge.

1) There are two water towers in UNIMAS which are the tallest in Sarawak. The Water Tower has two functions: Filtering and Water Storing.

2) The bridge run across the UNIMAS Lake at the center of the West Campus. Many students spend evening time around the bridge for
activities like jogging and kayak.
 

PKMA - PUSAT KHIDMAT MAKLUMAT AKADEMIK
Centre For Academic Information Services

U N I M A S
CAIS Centre For Academic Information Services functions as the Knowledge Centre for theUNIMAS university.
The Centre contributes to the success of the academic programmes. CAIS’s strategic location enables students and academics easy access to the Centre.
The IT infrastructure enables the Center to function as an integrated user-oriented Centre for the acquisition, processing and dissemination of information and knowledge. CAIS has been building up its bibliographic database thus enabling users to access the Centre's collection through Web OPAC, an online public access catalog.
Besides the bibliographic database, CAIS together with other public university libraries embarked on projects to develop online databases such as :
1) The Malaysian Theses Online,
2) The Malaysian Gateway to Internet Resources,
3) The Serials Online,
4) The University Repository as well as
5) The National Union Catalog.

Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra
( DeTAR PUTRA )



 

The RM66.88-million Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra (DeTAR PUTRA) at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) was officially opened by the Head of State, Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Muhammad Salahuddin on 10 October 2012

The hall construction started on 11 August 2008, and completed on 31 August, 2011 and was first used as the venue for Unimas’ 15th convocation in October, 2011.

The official presentation of the key to DeTAR PUTRA was held on 5 September, 2011, and witnessed by the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education Datuk Ab Rahim Md Noor.

Besides its attractive and unique architectural design, DeTAR PUTRA has two floors of seating areas with a seating capacity of 4,000 people and is equipped with facilities like office space, VVIP rest room and a banquet hall which can accommodate 2,000 people.

The hall was equipped sophisticated visual technology system and other equipment.

The facilities at DeTAR PUTRA were used for convocation purposes and also for activities like international conferences, seminars and other official functions.

Facilities

UNIMAS Bowling Centre
Gymnasiums
Sports Complex ( Stadium & Athletic Track, Olympic-Size Swimming pool, Indoor Hall, Futsal, Basketball, Football, Sepak Takraw)
UNIMAS Lake ( Boating, Kayaking, Water recreational activities)

Health Centre

The UNIMAS Clinic is located at Lower Ground Floor, Student Affairs and Alumni Building in West Campus. This unit provides medical and healthcare services to all UNIMAS staff and students. Currently, the clinic is managed by 2 doctors,
5 nurses, one pharmacist and 7 experienced support staff. The clinic provides outpatient treatments to UNIMAS students, staff and staff family members (qualified family member only).
 

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) is working hard to set up a recreational park as part of its forest reserve transformation at the campus.
The cost of the recreational park would be from RM3 million to RM5 million from the federal government.

Unimas is to transform the jungle reserve in the campus into a recreational garden and park which attract locals and tourists alike.

The big jungle reserve have a lot of flora and fauna which can be part of the state’s ecotourism efforts.

 

 UNIMAS is the eighth university in Malaysia opened its doors for apply on 8th August 1993 to the first batch of
students.

In that year, there were only two faculties open for students to apply, which were
(a) Faculty of Science Social (FSS)
(b) Faculty of Resource Science and Technology (FRST).

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) recorded the highest enrolment of new students in 2012.
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) registered 4,142 new students in September, 2012 yesterday, making it the highest intake since its inauguration nearly two decades ago.

Seventy per cent of the total intake for 2012/13 is students from outside Sarawak. Unimas had 3,900 new students for 2011intake, and 2012’s 4,142 is the biggest of all. The university has an excellent and quality campus as well as academic programmes and relevant courses.
There were also 19 foreign students from China, Bangladesh, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Korea, Indonesia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic.

Unimas currently has some 12,000 students while its full capacity is 20,000.



Unimas ranks 165 out of 500 top Asian universities

This recent record was the best among all universities in Malaysia. Unimas made it to top 200 in 2011

The excellence awards reflected not only good academic performance and staff, but the university’s capacity to produce quality human resource.
 

Read more: www.theborneopost.com/2012/

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) was the 165th university among the top 500 universities in Asia by QS Asian University Rankings 2012.

QS Asian University Rankings with the co-operation of The Chosun Ilbo from South Korea has published its research findings on Asia’s best universities through a website, www.topuniversities.com since 2009.
In 2012 Unimas and several universities like Universiti Malaya and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia have improved their standings.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) maintained the top position, followed by National University of Singapore.
 

Read more: www.theborneopost.com/2012/06

Since University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) was made a bowling centre for university students by the Education Ministry in 2009, Unimas has produced some encouraging results especially in the Malaysian University Sports Council (Masum) it hosted here in April, 2012.
In the bowling event, Unimas bowlers captured one gold and one silver medals to finish second overall behind UiTm.
Unimas was one of the universities that had excellent sports facilities for its students and staff and apart from having a bowling centre, Unimas is also the only university that has a futsal centre with three courts.
Unimas have been chosen as the venue for the Sarawak Sukma XV contingent camp as well as playing host to the national Inter-Bomba Games in June 2012.
Unimas is a popular venue for staging sports events with a sports complex that comprised :
1) a badminton hall with six courts,
2) futsal centre,
3) swimming pool,
4) tennis,
5) squash,
6) basketball,
7) volleyball,
8) lawn bowls courts and
9) three football fields,

Read more: www.theborneopost.com/2012/06/

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