Multimedia University

Multimedia University (MMU, Malay: Universiti Multimedia) is a private research-led university in Malaysia, placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings, and it holds the distinction of being the country's first private university.多媒体大学（MMU，马来语：Universiti Multimedia）是马来西亚一所以研究为导向的私立大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间，也是马来西亚历史上首所正式获准成立的私立大学。

Founded in 1996 on the invitation of the Ministry of Education to Telekom Malaysia, it operates the flagship Cyberjaya campus in Selangor and the Melaka campus, and is a founding member of the Alliance of Government Linked Universities.该校 1996 年应教育部之邀由马来西亚电讯公司（Telekom Malaysia）创办，设有雪兰莪州赛城主校区与马六甲校区，是马来西亚政联大学联盟（GLU）创始成员。

Its OpenAlex record lists 16,674 research works and 428,510 citations, and its teaching mission emphasises industry collaboration and the preparation of graduates for professional careers and advanced research.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 16,674 项、被引 428,510 次，办学使命强调产学合作，培养面向职业与研究的应用型人才。

History

• In 1994 Telekom Malaysia founded the Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (ITTM) at Taiping in Perak, enrolling a first cohort of 42 students on two-year telecommunications engineering diploma courses.1994 年，马来西亚电讯公司在霹雳州太平设立电讯与资讯科技学院（ITTM），招收首批 42 名学员修读两年制电信工程文凭课程。

• The academic record of the first two ITTM intakes convinced the Ministry of Education to invite the company to found Malaysia's first private university, formalised in October 1996.首届与次届学员的学业成果促使教育部正式邀请马电讯创办全马第一所私立大学，授权于 1996 年 10 月落定。

• Building on the ITTM base, the company established Universiti Telekom, also styled Telekom University (UniTELE), in Melaka, the institution's first identity as a university from 1996 to 1999.依托 ITTM 基础，马电讯在马六甲建立「电讯大学」（Universiti Telekom，又称 Telekom University/UniTELE），1996 至 1999 年间这是该校作为大学的最初身份。

• In 1997 the Melaka campus was built at Bukit Beruang near Ayer Keroh, converting the company's southern regional offices into a university site.1997 年，马六甲校区在爱极乐邻近的武吉波浪建成，由马电讯南区办事处改建为大学校园。

• To accelerate the Multimedia Super Corridor flagship programme, the federal government invited Telekom Malaysia to build a hub university in the purpose-built intelligent city of Cyberjaya, echoing the role of Stanford University in Silicon Valley.为加速「多媒体超级走廊」（MSC）旗舰计划，联邦政府力邀马电讯在智慧新城赛城设立枢纽大学，期望复制斯坦福大学带动硅谷的效应。

• Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad officially opened the Cyberjaya campus on 8 July 1999, when the university adopted its present name Multimedia University.1999 年 7 月 8 日，首相马哈迪·莫哈末为赛城主校区主持开幕，学校同时正式更名「多媒体大学」。

• The Cyberjaya campus was conceived as the educational anchor of the Multimedia Super Corridor, the technology zone stretching from Kuala Lumpur to the new administrative capital Putrajaya.赛城校区被定位为「多媒体超级走廊」的教育锚点，该科技走廊自吉隆坡延伸至新行政首都布城。

• In 2013 the university partnered with the USC School of Cinematic Arts to open a third campus at Iskandar Puteri in Johor for film arts education.2013 年，该校与南加州大学的 USC School of Cinematic Arts 合作，在柔佛州依斯干达公主城设立专注影视创作的第三校区。

• In 2021 the film school's operations and programmes were consolidated back to the Cyberjaya campus, ending the Johor campus phase.2021 年，为整合教学资源，影视艺术学院实体与课程全面迁回赛城主校区，柔佛校区阶段结束。

• The university joined the Alliance of Government Linked Universities as a founding member in 2013, aligning private higher education with the talent strategies of government-linked corporations.2013 年，该校作为创始成员加入政联大学联盟，把私立高等教育与政联企业的人才战略对接。

• Liberalisation of Malaysian higher education began in 1996, when the government moved to engage the private sector in human capital development, and MMU was the pilot of that policy.马来西亚高等教育自由化始于 1996 年，政府推动私营部门参与人力资本建设，多媒体大学正是这一政策的试点。

• The choice of Telekom Malaysia underscored official confidence in the corporation's capacity to lead the privatisation of higher education.选择马电讯作为办学主体，凸显了官方对该公司引领高等教育私有化能力的信心。

• Faculty growth through the 2000s added artificial intelligence, creative multimedia and applied communication schools at Cyberjaya alongside the original engineering base at Melaka.2000 年代学院扩张，赛城校区在马六甲的工科根基之外增设人工智能、创意多媒体与应用传播等学院。

• The university's two-campus structure was completed with the Institute for Postgraduate Studies coordinating graduate education across both sites.研究生院（IPS）设立后统筹两校区的研究生教育，双校区格局由此定型。

• Corporate laboratories built with partners such as Astro and Cisco integrated industry equipment into teaching from the 2000s onward.2000 年代起与 Astro、思科等伙伴共建的企业实验室，把产业设备引入日常教学。

• Research output grew from the engineering core into computing, multimedia and management, recorded today as more than 16,000 works in OpenAlex.研究产出从工科核心扩展到计算、多媒体与管理领域，OpenAlex 记录今日已逾 16,000 项成果。

• Alumni of the 1994 diploma programme became a technical backbone of Malaysia's telecom industry as the sector liberalised in the late 1990s.1994 年文凭班的首届校友，在 1990 年代末电信业开放后成为马来西亚电信业的一代技术骨干。

• The Melaka campus preserved the ITTM training tradition of 1994 while the Cyberjaya campus pursued the MSC's research ambitions.马六甲校区延续了 1994 年 ITTM 的培训传统，赛城校区则承载「多媒体超级走廊」的研究抱负。

• From the founding years of 1996, university governance combined Telekom Malaysia's corporate board oversight with academic senates, a hybrid private-corporate model rare in the region.自 1996 年建校起，该校治理由马电讯企业董事会与学术评议会结合，这种企业化私立模式在区域内较为少见。

• By the 2020s the university described its mission as teaching, industry collaboration and preparation of graduates for professional careers and advanced research.到 2020 年代，该校把使命概括为教学、产学合作以及培养面向职业与深造的毕业生。

Academics

• The Cyberjaya campus hosts six faculties, including the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, the Faculty of Cinematic Arts, the Faculty of Applied Communication and the Faculty of Management.赛城校区设六大学院，包括人工智能与工程学院、计算机与资讯学院、创意多媒体学院、电影艺术学院、应用传播学院与管理学院。

• The Melaka campus runs the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Law, alongside foundation and continuing education centres.马六甲校区设有工程与科技学院、资讯科学与技术学院、商学院与法学院，并附设基础预科与延续教育中心。

• Graduate education across both campuses is coordinated by the Institute for Postgraduate Studies, which administers master's and doctoral programmes.两校区研究生教育由研究生院（IPS）统筹，管理硕士与博士课程。

• Industry-built laboratories on campus include the Astro digital creative laboratory, the Cisco Networking Academy laboratory, the Innov8 maker space and the SMART Lab for intelligent technologies.校内产业共建实验室包括 Astro 数码创意实验室、思科 Networking Academy 实验室、微创创新工场（Innov8 Lab）与智能技术实验室（SMART Lab）。

• Creative facilities include a 200-seat professional film screening hall, recording studios, a foley sound studio, an optical motion-capture studio and a virtual reality laboratory.创意设施包括 200 座专业电影放映厅、录音棚、拟声音效工作室、光学动作捕捉工作室与虚拟现实实验室。

• A law programme at Melaka is supported by an electronic moot court, while a financial data trading laboratory serves business and fintech teaching.马六甲的法学院配有电子模拟法庭，金融数据交易实验室支撑商科与金融科技教学。

• An aquaponics ecological farm on the Cyberjaya campus doubles as a sustainability teaching facility for engineering and life science students.赛城校区的鱼菜共生生态农场兼作可持续教学设施，服务工程与生命科学学生。

• Diploma, undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes span telecommunications, computing, multimedia, film, communication, management, engineering, information science and law, with the Scholarship Committee supporting high-performing students.课程从文凭到博士覆盖电信、计算、多媒体、影视、传播、管理、工程、资讯科学与法律，奖学金委员会为优秀学生提供支持。

• The two-year diploma roots of the institution survive in foundation programmes that prepare students for degree study across both campuses.学校两年制文凭的源头仍体现为基础预科课程，为两校区的学位学习做准备。

• Film arts education, begun at the Johor campus with the University of Southern California partnership in 2013, now operates from the Cyberjaya Faculty of Cinematic Arts.影视艺术教育始于 2013 年与南加州大学合作时期，现由赛城电影艺术学院运营。

• Artificial intelligence teaching is institutionalised in a dedicated faculty at Cyberjaya, reflecting the MSC corridor's technology focus.人工智能教学在赛城设有专门学院，呼应「多媒体超级走廊」的科技定位。

• Management and business programmes draw on the government-linked corporate network for internships and industry projects.管理类课程依托政联企业网络安排实习与产业项目。

• Research activity, recorded as 16,674 works and 428,510 citations in OpenAlex, concentrates on telecommunications engineering, multimedia computing and informatics.OpenAlex 记录的 16,674 项成果与 428,510 次被引集中于电信工程、多媒体计算与信息学。

• Student exchange and twinning arrangements connect the university to partner institutions in the region and beyond.学生交换与学分互认安排把该校与区域内外伙伴院校连接起来。

• Professional certification pathways, including Cisco networking accreditation embedded in coursework, give graduates industry credentials alongside degrees.思科网络认证等专业资格嵌入课程，毕业生可同时取得学位与行业证书。

• Continuing education centres at Melaka serve working professionals with evening and weekend programmes, a lineage of the original ITTM training mission of 1994.马六甲的延续教育中心以晚间与周末课程服务在职人士，延续了 1994 年 ITTM 的培训使命。

Campus

• The main Cyberjaya campus stands in the technology city of Cyberjaya in Selangor, at coordinates of 2.196 degrees north and 102.2405 degrees east, at the core of the Multimedia Super Corridor.主校区位于雪兰莪州的科技新城赛城，坐标为北纬 2.196、东经 102.2405，地处「多媒体超级走廊」核心。

• Cyberjaya, dubbed Malaysia's Silicon Valley, hosts the university alongside multinational technology operations and the MSC headquarters functions.号称「马来西亚硅谷」的赛城集聚了该校、跨国科技企业与「多媒体超级走廊」的总部职能。

• The Melaka campus at Bukit Beruang near Ayer Keroh occupies a site converted from Telekom Malaysia's southern regional offices in 1997.马六甲校区位于爱极乐附近的武吉波浪，由 1997 年改建的马电讯南区办事处地块发展而成。

• Melaka city's UNESCO World Heritage old town lies within an hour of the campus, and Ayer Keroh's toll plaza links the site to the north-south expressway.马六甲市被列入世界遗产的古城距校区约一小时车程，爱极乐收费站把校区接入南北大道。

• Campus facilities at Cyberjaya include the 200-seat cinema, studios and motion-capture suites concentrated in the creative arts complex.赛城校园设施包括集中于创意艺术楼的 200 座影院、录音棚与动作捕捉工作室。

• Both campuses provide on-campus and off-campus student accommodation, digital libraries and round-the-clock campus wireless networks under a Disciplinary Committee framework for campus order.两校区均提供校内外学生宿舍、数字化图书馆与全天候校园无线网络，校园秩序由 Disciplinary Committee 框架维系。

• The Johor campus at Iskandar Puteri, opened in 2013 for film education, closed as a teaching site in 2021 when programmes returned to Cyberjaya.2013 年启用的柔佛依斯干达公主城校区专事影视教育，2021 年课程迁回赛城后停止办学。

• Transport between Cyberjaya and Kuala Lumpur city centre runs by dedicated shuttle and expressway, about 45 minutes outside peak hours.赛城与吉隆坡市中心之间有专线巴士与高速路连接，非高峰时段约 45 分钟。

• Proximity to Putrajaya and the KLIA international airport places the main campus within half an hour of federal administrative and air travel hubs.主校区邻近布城与吉隆坡国际机场，半小时内可达联邦行政中心与航空枢纽。

• Melaka campus expansion preserved the surrounding Bukit Beruang forest fringe, giving the campus a green belt setting typical of the historic state.马六甲校区扩张保留了武吉波浪周边林带，校园绿意环绕，与这座历史州属的气质相合。

Reputation

• Multimedia University is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.多媒体大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

• THE World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 801-1000 band.2027 年度 THE 世界大学排名将其列于 801-1000 区间。

• It is not covered by the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities survey, and did not enter the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 main list, gaps reported as genuine absences rather than missed matches.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，均为真实缺席而非漏匹配。

• Its first-university status gives it a symbolic place in Malaysian higher education history as the pioneer of the 1996 privatisation policy.作为马来西亚第一所私立大学，它在 1996 年私有化政策史上占据开创者地位。

• Founding membership of the Alliance of Government Linked Universities anchors its standing within the government-linked corporate education network.政联大学联盟创始成员身份奠定了它在政联企业教育网络中的地位。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 16,674 research works and 428,510 citations, a portfolio led by telecommunications, multimedia computing and informatics.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 16,674 项、被引 428,510 次，成果以电信、多媒体计算与信息学为主。

• Employer recognition stems from the co-built laboratories with Astro, Cisco and industry partners that embed corporate tools in the curriculum.雇主认可来自与 Astro、思科等伙伴共建的实验室，企业级工具深度嵌入课程。

• The Stanford-Silicon Valley analogy invoked at its 1999 founding set the benchmark for its role in the national technology corridor, and graduates staff the MSC's companies.1999 年建校时官方援引「斯坦福-硅谷」类比设定其角色基准，毕业生至今服务于走廊内的科技企业。

• Within Malaysia it is regarded as a leading private institution for multimedia, computing and telecommunications education, competing with public technical universities for industry placements.在马来西亚国内，它被视为多媒体、计算与电信教育的私立翘楚，在产业实习方面与公立工科大学竞争。

Student life

• The university motto is Inquire, inspire and innovate, a triad that frames teaching, research and creative practice on both campuses.校训为「Inquire，inspire and innovate」，意为探询、启迪、创新，概括了两校区的教学、研究与创作实践。

• The official university anthem is Permata Dunia, meaning Jewel of the World, composed by Intan Nazrahayu, and the anthem's title also names the alumni community.校歌为由因丹·娜兹拉哈尤创作的《世间明珠》（Permata Dunia），歌名同时是校友社群的名称。

• Campus life runs on two sites with distinct characters, the technology-district pace of Cyberjaya and the historical-city setting of Melaka.校园生活分布于风格迥异的两地，赛城的科技园区节奏与马六甲的历史城市氛围。

• Student societies span robotics, film production, esports, debate and cultural troupes, and the elected Student Representative Council channels campus voice to the university management.学生社团涵盖机器人、影视制作、电竞、辩论与文化艺术团体，民选的学生代表理事会则把校园声音传达给校方。

• The film screening hall hosts student premieres, and the motion-capture and VR studios support coursework and society projects alike.电影放映厅承办学生首映礼，动作捕捉与 VR 工作室同时支撑课程与社团项目。

• Sports facilities and inter-campus tournaments link the Cyberjaya and Melaka communities, with football, futsal and badminton the most active codes.体育设施与跨校区联赛连接赛城与马六甲两个社区，足球、室内五人制与羽毛球最为活跃。

• Orientation weeks, the Convocation Committee-run graduation seasons and the founding anniversary of the 1996 charter structure the academic-year calendar.迎新周、Convocation Committee 统筹的毕业礼季与 1996 年建校纪念构成学年日程的节点。

• Student media cover both campuses, and society volunteering programmes connect students to Cyberjaya's tech community and Melaka's heritage precincts.学生媒体报道两校区事务，志愿服务项目把学生与赛城科技圈和马六甲遗产街区连接起来。

• Residential halls on both campuses create a self-contained campus culture, supported by campus-wide wireless networks and digital library access.两校区宿舍形成自足的校园文化，全校无线网络与数字图书馆提供支撑。

• Industry showcases each term bring MSC companies to campus for recruitment and project supervision, making corporate engagement part of everyday student life.每学期的产业展示会把「多媒体超级走廊」企业请进校园招聘与指导项目，企业互动成为学生日常的一部分。

• The eBee, the university mascot, appears at campus events beside the blue-and-red colours that mark university publications and sports kits.吉祥物「eBee」在校园活动中亮相，与出现在学校出版物和运动队服上的蓝红双色相映成趣。

Notable people

• Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003, championed the Multimedia Super Corridor and personally opened the Cyberjaya campus on 8 July 1999.马哈迪·莫哈末，1981 至 2003 年任首相，是「多媒体超级走廊」的推手，1999 年 7 月 8 日亲自为赛城校区开幕。

• Najib Razak, Minister of Education when the founding licence was granted in October 1996 and later Prime Minister from 2009, signed off the pilot that created Malaysia's first private university.纳吉布·敦·拉扎克，1996 年 10 月授出办学许可时任教育部长、2009 年起任首相，批准了创办马来西亚第一所私立大学的试点。

• Intan Nazrahayu composed the university anthem Permata Dunia, which is performed at convocations across both campuses.因丹·娜兹拉哈尤创作了校歌《世间明珠》，在两校区的毕业典礼上演唱。

• Zaki Tun Azmi, former Chief Justice of Malaysia, serves as the university's Chancellor, the ceremonial head who presides over convocations.扎基·敦·阿兹米，马来西亚前联邦法院首席大法官，出任该校校监，在毕业典礼上主礼。

• Richard Malanjum, former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, serves as Pro-Chancellor, the deputy to the ceremonial head of the university.里查德·马拉朱姆，前沙巴与砂拉越首席大法官，出任副校监，辅佐校监履行礼制职务。

• Mazliham Mohd Su'ud serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, leading the university across the Cyberjaya and Melaka campuses.马兹利汉·莫哈末·苏德出任校长兼首席执行官，统辖赛城与马六甲两校区。

• Ahmad Rafi Mohamed Eshaq, professor in the Faculty of Creative Multimedia and former Vice President for Academic Affairs, also served as Dean of the Institute for Postgraduate Studies from 2013 to 2014.艾哈迈德·拉菲·莫哈末·伊沙克，创意多媒体学院教授、曾任学术副校长，2013 至 2014 年任研究生院院长。

• Zulfadzli Yusoff, an engineering academic, serves as Vice President for Student Experience and Entrepreneurship Development, overseeing campus life programmes.祖尔法兹利·尤索夫，工程学者，出任学生体验与创业发展副校长，统管校园生活项目。

• David Asirvatham, an information technology academic, served in senior university leadership for years and championed the university's digital learning platforms.大卫·阿西瓦坦，信息技术学者，长期在校担任高级管理职务，推动学校的数字化学习平台。

• Graduates of the 1994 ITTM diploma cohort became technical leaders across Malaysia's telecom operators as the industry opened in the late 1990s.1994 年 ITTM 文凭班的首届毕业生，在 1990 年代末行业开放后成长为马来西亚各电信运营商的技术骨干。

• Faculty recruited from the Multimedia Super Corridor's companies built the university's early industry-facing curricula in multimedia and networking.从「多媒体超级走廊」企业聘来的教师，奠定了该校多媒体与网络方向产业化的早期课程。

• Alumni across computing and creative media staff Malaysia's digital agencies, animation studios and telecom firms, the population the MSC policy of 1996 was designed to create.计算与创意媒体的毕业生遍布马来西亚的数字机构、动画公司与电信企业，正是 1996 年政策所要造就的人才群体。