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Leading with Purpose
Messages of the Vice Chancellor MESSAGES OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR

Improvements in critical areas including the education sector and in having more top
talents in high impact science fields, including having more scientists and engineers
which will help support the country’s new drive towards technological and scientific
transformation.

Malaysia’s engineer-to-population ratio stood at 1:170 in 2022, still below the national
target of 1:100. The new strategic drive of the NSS and other related key industries
including the setting up of Malaysia as the new hub in the region for high technology
manufacturing and electronics, Electric Vehicles, data centre enhancement, digital
transformation, blockchain capacity, Artificial Intelligence, and green energy elevation
will require consistent capacity of high skilled workforce, engineers and scientists
to sustain the new century of scientific, economic and national transformation of
Malaysia into a high income and prosperous country.
Universiti Malaya as the nation’s best and oldest university will strive to lead this new
transformation in providing the future driven spectrum of world class human capital in
various fields and expertise, and in creating new knowledge and solutions to pressing
challenges of the future from climate change to geopolitical conflicts.
This reform agenda in the university encompasses a holistic overview of bold
transformations transcending the entire academic and research foundations, in
synergising and getting the best support and returns of the human capital asset of
the university.

The promising achievements as evident in the QS Rankings are the epitome of the
university’s unwavering intent to maintain and advance its position as the nation’s
best university, and will continue to ensure that both students and the academic and
research fraternity are given the right capacity, support and intellectual dynamism and
26 expertise in facing the increasingly stiff and ferocious threats and challenges of the
future in facing the higher education sector.
This success of this QS World University Rankings is attributed to the result and hard
work of the entire campus community, especially the academic and research talent
pool and our non-academic workforce that have been working hard with great tenacity
in meeting our internally set Key Performance Indicators.
Under the three main tenets of community engagement, in industrialising the university
and in the internationalising the university’s global repute and standing, Universiti
Malaya strives to maintain and enhance the university’s strategic and critical standing
as the nation’s top flagbearer and trendsetter in academic and research eminence in
charting new frontiers of breakthroughs and advancement for the world and humanity.

Meaningful and sustainable impact to the community through practical applications
of research outcome in solving community challenges from environmental pollution to
traffic management are the key target areas in the tenet of community impact.

The impact and presence of the university is not only limited to the geographical
barrier of being in the Klang Valley alone, as we seek to make our community presence
and impact felt across the country in all the constituencies and in different parts of the
world by ensuring our research and academic works having the right influence and life
changing impact.
The second tenet of industrialising the university revolves on the strategic synergy of
industry experts in providing the expertise to our campus community especially the
students in their teaching and learning modules. Subjects are required to be taught by
industry experts and key stakeholders to inject the needed comprehensive knowledge
cultivation and knowledge creation beyond conventional teaching and learning alone.

Various strategic collaborations with key private institutions nationally and globally
have been increased, with specific focus on critical areas that will be of vital importance
to the country’s future economic and geopolitical needs.