Page 12 - Handbook PG 20182019

Faculty of Science Postgraduate Booklet, Session 2018/2019

Department of Geology

The Department of Geology, University of Malaya is the oldest geology department amongst the
Malaysian university. It was founded in Singapore in 1955 and relocated to The Kuala Lumpur
Campus in 1960. From its modest beginning with only 4 academic staff and 2 final-year students in
1962, the Department has expanded and evolved into a multidisciplinary department, committed to
the development of academic excellence in teaching and research. Each year, the Department
accepts about 40-60 undergraduates for their 3-year BSc Degree in Geology and Applied Geology
course. As an integral part of the undergraduates’ education, the Department carries out fieldwork
training in various parts of the country.

To ensure that our programmes are at par with the rest of the educational programmes in the
developed nations, international external examiners are appointed to provide feedback on the
Department’s programmes and examination matters regularly.

The Department has been actively engaged in postgraduate research. In recent years, on average we
have between 15 to 20 local and foreign postgraduate students. The fields of research being pursued
range from fundamental geology to applied geology such as economic geology, geochemistry,
geophysics, engineering geology, hydrogeology and petroleum geology.

The Department is also the hub for the exchange, discussion and dissemination of geological
knowledge in the country and the region. It houses the Secretariat of the Geological Society of
Malaysia (GSM) and Institute Geology Malaysia (IGM). These bodies actively organize workshops,
seminars, conferences and fieldwork to promote geology both locally and internationally.

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