University of Malaya (UM) is Malaysia’s oldest university. It was founded on 28 September, 1905 in Singapore as the King Edward VII Co Medicine and on 8 October, 1949, it became the University of Malaya with the merger of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and R (founded in 1928). UM derives its name from the term ‘Malaya’ as the country was then known. The Carr-Saunders Commission on Univ Education in Malaya, which recommended the setting up of the university, noted in its Report in 1948: “The University of Malaya would first time a common centre where varieties of race, religion and economic interest could mingle in joint endeavour… For a University of inevitably realise that it is a university for Malaya.”

On 16 June, 1962, UM celebrated the installation of its first Chancellor, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, who was also the country’s fi minister. The first Vice-Chancellor was Professor Oppenheim, a world-renowned Mathematician. Currently, His Royal Highness The Sult Darul Ridzuan, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah is the Chancellor of the University of Malaya. YBhg. Datuk Ir. (Dr.) Abdul Rahim Hj. Hashi appointed as the twelfth Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya on 1 November, 2017.

Universiti Malaya

50603 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia