Universiti Sains Malaysia

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is one of the three research-intensive universities in Malaysia. USM’s mission and vision is to be a world-class university embarking on world class research programmes via strategic planning and implementation of its R&D mechanisms. Since its inception in 1969, USM has gained a reputation for providing excellent postgraduate programmes and is fast gaining international recognition, which is evident from the numerous international awards and prizes garnered by its researchers.

USM has three campuses; the Main Campus is located on the island of Penang while the Engineering Campus is located on the mainland side of the state of Penang. The third campus, which houses three health related programmes (Medicine, Health and Dentistry) is in the State of Kelantan--on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

The university currently has population of about 5,289 graduate students, which constitute more than 20% of its total student population. Of these, about 892 are foreign students.

The students are enrolled in over 39 Schools and four Centres of Excellence in the areas of Medicine, Science and Technology, Engineering and Arts and are working towards their Masters or Doctorate degrees. 

Graduate students work under the supervision of highly qualified academic staff whom are similarly active in their own well-funded research programmes, all within the state-of-the-art research facilities.
  
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