Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), officially established on 16 February 1984, is the sixth Malaysian public University. The only University set up to specialize solely in management education from the beginning of its establishment.
A restructuring of the university academic system was undertaken to prepare a vital structure that would enable the increase in the number of postgraduate students and the UUM flag's hoisting in the international academic arena. The University sees the need to be global in practice and content since the knowledge it generates and purveys transcends and extends far beyond Malaysia's borders. In this restructuring exercise, 13 faculties were merged and streamed into three prominent Academic Colleges, namely UUM COB (UUM College of Business), UUM CAS (UUM College of Arts and Sciences), and UUM COLGIS (UUM College of Law, Government and International Studies).
The University provides several facilities for sports and recreational activities for all students and staff to develop a physically and mentally healthy community. In its quest to develop well-rounded individuals, the University has an extensive array of sports and recreational facilities, which include an Olympic-size swimming pool, a mini-stadium with a state-of-the-art running track, an archery range, shooting range, badminton, tennis, basketball, volleyball, rugby, hockey, softball, handball and netball courts as well as football fields. UUM is the only University in Malaysia with a go-kart circuit and provides recreational facilities for canoeing, jogging, cycling, jungle trekking, climbing, abseiling, and camping.
University Utara Malaysia was established to develop and promote management education in the country primarily. Its academic programs are mainly geared towards providing a broad spectrum of academic knowledge and intellectual skills in the area of management, accounting, economics, information technology, public administration, human resource management, entrepreneurship, finance and banking, law, marketing, management of technology, communication, social work, multimedia, education, decision science, international affairs, business management, tourism, muamalat administration, development management, logistics and transportation, hospitality, risk, and insurance management, media technology, agribusiness management science, business mathematics, industrial statistics, and counseling.
In addition to its core business of providing quality teaching, conducting extensive research, and promoting a culture of scholarly publications, the University will contribute to communities' social, economic, and intellectual development beyond the campus. The University has a crucial role in engaging the surrounding local communities in community-based projects, in developing or strengthening community-university partnerships through collaboration with other government agencies or the private sector.
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