LAUNCHING: (From left) Tan Sri Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Arshad, chairman of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia board, Professor Steve Chapman, principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, The British High Commissioner, Simon Featherstone CMG, and Professor Robert Craik Provost and CEO of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, pose at the inauguration of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia.
PUTRAJAYA: Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (HWUM) has been officially opened by The British High Commissioner, Simon Featherstone CMG at a historic ceremony held at Menara PjH, the prestigious headquarters of Putrajaya Holdings (PjH).
Malaysia is Heriot-Watt’s fifth campus, with three campuses in Scotland and one in Dubai. The first group of students will be studying the university’s internationally renowned Edinburgh Business School MBA programme, with postgraduate degree programmes in energy, renewable energy, construction project management, quantity surveying, petroleum engineering, business psychology and international business management planned from September 2013.
The university is working closely with Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd, Putrajaya’s master developers, in the development of a flagship purpose-built campus currently under construction in Putrajaya.
This represents an investment of RM 173 million and the campus is scheduled for completion in 2014.
The new campus will create opportunities for up to 4,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and research students to study a range of professionally relevant Heriot-Watt degrees tailored to the needs of industry, commerce and wider society and will not only serve students from across Malaysia, but will offer opportunities to students from countries in the surrounding region.
This latest Heriot-Watt international development responds to Malaysia’s drive for economic growth and development, offering high quality British education to students from Malaysia and across Asia.
Heriot-Watt University specialises in subjects across science, technology, engineering, business and design, with a particular focus on developing solutions to critical global issues, such as climate change and energy.
It is ranked in the top 4 per cent of universities worldwide and in September 2012 was named as Scottish University of the year for the second year in succession. Established in 1821, it has campuses in Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders, Orkney and Dubai.
The MBA programme has been launched at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (HWUM) and teaching starts in January 2013. The university is offering the following programmes at HWUM for the September 2013 intake: MSc in Energy, MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering, MSc in Construction Project Management, MSc in Quantity Surveying, MSc in Petroleum Engineering, MSc in Business Psychology and MSc in International Business Management.
This world-renowned MBA programme developed by Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University UK will be delivered by top UK and Asian staff in Malaysia from January 2013 at the newly established Heriot-Watt University Malaysia campus at Putrajaya.
The Edinburgh Business School MBA programme will build on the school’s long history in Malaysia. The MBA has been available to students since 1992, through study in the UK, independent study or academic partner institutions. There are already more than 1,200 graduates from this MBA in Malaysia.
The Edinburgh Business School MBA from Heriot-Watt has a powerful global reputation with students or graduates from more than 40 per cent of Fortune 500 companies, demonstrating that this programme carries the reputation of generating ‘the graduate’ a highly competitive organisation needs’.
Not only is the MBA programme is approved by the MoHE and MQA in Malaysia, it is listed as the largest MBA programme in the world by the Financial Times (March 2012) and the university boasts more than 10,500 current students from 160 countries across the world.
Learn more about HWUM at http://www.hw.ac.uk/malaysia.htm.