Sunway University

Sunway University is a private, not-for-profit university in Bandar Sunway, Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and positions itself as a mission-driven fifth-generation university known as the Campus with a Conscience.双威大学是一所位于马来西亚大吉隆坡地区双威镇的私立非营利大学，自我定位为以使命驱动的第五代大学，并以「有良知的校园」著称。

It forms part of the Sunway Education Group, which oversees sixteen institutions and is governed by the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, and it teaches its degrees entirely in English.该校隶属双威教育集团，该集团管理十六所教育机构并受谢富年基金会治理，其学位课程全部以英语授课。

It is placed 354th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 283rd in the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, 497th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 354，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中位列第 283，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 497，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 901 至 1000 区间。

History

• The institution traces its origins to Sunway College, which was established in 1987 as part of the Sunway Group's expansion into education.该校的前身可追溯至 1987 年创办的双威学院，那是双威集团向教育领域拓展的一部分。

• In 1993 the Sunway College building was officially opened at a ceremony attended by the group founder Jeffrey Cheah, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Deputy Prime Minister Musa bin Hitam.1993 年，双威学院大楼正式启用，集团创办人谢富年、首相马哈蒂尔·穆罕默德与副首相慕沙·希塔姆出席了启用仪式。

• The Sunway Education Trust Fund was launched in 1997 to channel the group's charitable support for education.1997 年设立双威教育信托基金，用以引导集团对教育的慈善支持。

• In 2004 the college was recognised by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education as a university college, becoming Sunway University College.2004 年，该学院获马来西亚高等教育部认可为大学学院，定名双威大学学院。

• In 2006 a partnership was established with Lancaster University, allowing students who complete certain programmes to receive degrees from both institutions.2006 年该校与兰卡斯特大学建立合作关系，完成特定课程的学生可同时获得两校颁发的学位。

• In 2010 the Sunway Education Trust Fund was succeeded by the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, a non-profit foundation that now owns and governs the group's educational institutions.2010 年，双威教育信托基金由谢富年基金会接替，这一非营利基金会如今拥有并治理集团的各教育机构。

• Also in 2010 the university began a partnership with Le Cordon Bleu, the Paris-based culinary and hospitality school, under which selected programmes follow its curricula.同在 2010 年，该校与总部位于巴黎的蓝带厨艺学校建立合作，部分课程依循其教学大纲开设。

• In January 2011 Sunway University College received full university accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education and became Sunway University.2011 年 1 月，双威大学学院获得高等教育部颁发的完整大学资格，正式更名为双威大学。

• The main university building was completed in 2015, providing new classrooms, laboratories, a cafeteria and the campus library.大学主楼于 2015 年落成，提供了新的教室、实验室、餐厅与校园图书馆。

• In 2016 the university established the Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia.2016 年该校设立杰弗里·萨克斯可持续发展中心，旨在推动联合国可持续发展目标在东南亚地区落地。

• Sibrandes Poppema, a former president of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, joined as a distinguished professor in 2019 and was appointed president in 2021.曾任荷兰格罗宁根大学校长的西布兰德斯·波佩马于 2019 年以特聘教授身份加入该校，并于 2021 年被任命为校长。

• The Sunway Centre for Planetary Health was established in 2021 with Jemilah Mahmood as its executive director, focusing on healthy cities and decarbonisation.星球健康中心于 2021 年成立，由杰米拉·马哈茂德出任执行主任，聚焦健康城市与脱碳议题。

• In 2023 the university formed a strategic partnership with Arizona State University that allows students to follow American-style degrees in Malaysia.2023 年该校与美国亚利桑那州立大学建立战略合作，使学生得以在马来西亚修读美式学位课程。

• In 2024 Sunway launched its Doctor of Medicine programme jointly developed with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, anchored at Sunway Medical Centre.2024 年双威推出医学博士学位课程，该课程与马来西亚国立大学联合开发，教学基地设于双威医疗中心。

• The Jeffrey Cheah Medical School was launched on 8 May 2025, marking the university's full entry into medical and clinical education.谢富年双威医学院于 2025 年 5 月 8 日设立，标志着该校全面进入医学与临床教学领域。

• In late 2025 the campus was expanded into the new Sunway Square building, which added about 700,000 square feet of student capacity.2025 年末，校园扩展至新的双威广场大楼，新增约 70 万平方英尺的学生容量。

• The Sunway Education Group marked its thirtieth anniversary on 25 July 2017 with a three-dimensional light projection on the facade of the main university building.2017 年 7 月 25 日，双威教育集团举行成立三十周年庆典，并在大学主楼外立面投射三维灯光影像。

• Sunway has been ranked the top private university in Southeast Asia by the ranking body AppliedHE for three consecutive editions of its ASEAN table.双威连续三届被排名机构 AppliedHE 评为东南亚最佳私立大学。

• By the mid-2020s the university had grown into a comprehensive institution offering programmes from actuarial science and medicine to culinary arts and sustainable development.至 2020 年代中期，该校已发展为综合性学府，课程涵盖精算学与医学，直到厨艺与可持续发展等领域。

• The Sunway Education Group grew from that single college into one of the largest private education providers in Malaysia, running sixteen institutions that range from pre-university colleges to a full university and a medical school.双威教育集团由当年那所学院发展为马来西亚规模最大的私立教育机构之一，旗下十六所院校涵盖大学预科、完整大学乃至医学院。

• Because the group is owned by the not-for-profit Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, its surpluses are channelled into scholarships and educational development rather than being distributed as profit.由于集团由非营利的谢富年基金会拥有，其盈余被用于奖学金与教育发展，而非作为利润分配。

Academics

• The university comprises eight faculties and schools together with a number of research centres and institutes.该校由八个学院与学部以及若干研究中心和研究所组成。

• Its faculties and schools include Sunway Business School, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering and Technology and the Jeffrey Cheah Medical School.其学院与学部包括双威商学院、人文与社会科学学院、工程与技术学院以及谢富年医学院。

• Programmes span actuarial science and finance, business, communication, computer science, culinary arts and hospitality, design and architecture, education, engineering and healthcare.其课程涵盖精算与金融、商科、传播、计算机科学、厨艺与酒店管理、设计与建筑、教育、工程以及医疗健康。

• The university operates under the Malaysian Qualifications Agency framework and holds accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education.该校依循马来西亚学术资格鉴定机构的框架运作，并持有高等教育部的认证。

• The Tun Hussein Onn Sunway Library occupies 72,000 square feet across three levels of the main university building and is also open to the general public.敦侯赛因·奥恩双威图书馆占地 72,000 平方英尺，横跨大学主楼的三层，并向公众开放。

• The library keeps an extended-hour study area that often stays open until two or three in the morning, alongside a large online research collection.该图书馆设有延长开放时段的研习区，常开至凌晨两三点，并配有规模庞大的线上研究资料库。

• Research is organised around the Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development, the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health and the Sunway University-Lancaster University Future Cities Research Institute.其科研围绕杰弗里·萨克斯可持续发展中心、星球健康中心以及与兰卡斯特大学共建的未来城市研究所展开。

• Other units include the Research Centre for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation, the Research Centre for Human-Machine Collaboration and the Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology.其他研究单位还包括二氧化碳捕集与利用研究中心、人机协作研究中心以及纳米材料与能源技术研究中心。

• Further centres cover electrochemical energy and sustainable technology, microbiome science, ageing and well-being, global strategy and digital humanities.另有研究中心涉及电化学能源与可持续技术、微生物组科学、老龄化与福祉、全球战略以及数字人文等领域。

• In 2025 some 43 academics from Sunway University appeared in the global list of the top two per cent of researchers published by Stanford University and Elsevier.2025 年，该校有约 43 位学者入选由斯坦福大学与爱思唯尔联合发布的全球前 2% 研究人员榜单。

• Through its partnership with Lancaster University, students on selected programmes receive dual awards from both institutions upon completion.通过其与兰卡斯特大学的合作，修读特定课程的学生在毕业后可获两校联颁的双学位。

• In hospitality and culinary arts the university works with Le Cordon Bleu, and selected degrees are validated by that institution.在酒店管理与厨艺领域，该校与蓝带厨艺学校合作，部分学位课程获得对方认证。

• The university is the Asia-Pacific host of the Harvard Medical School Leadership in Medicine programme, a postgraduate certificate delivered with Harvard Medical School.该校是哈佛医学院「医疗领导力」项目的亚太区主办方，该项目是由哈佛医学院合作开设的研究生证书课程。

• A long-term biomedical partnership with the University of Cambridge is anchored by the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.该校与剑桥大学保持长期生物医学合作，以设于剑桥生物医学园区的谢富年生物医学中心为依托。

• Sunway also collaborates with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on sustainability, advanced materials and energy technologies, and with Arizona State University on dual degrees.双威还与麻省理工学院在可持续性、先进材料与能源技术方面合作，并与亚利桑那州立大学合办双学位。

• The university is recognised by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation as a Premier Digital Tech Institution and uses the Blackboard Ultra platform for its virtual learning environment.该校获马来西亚数字经济机构认定为「卓越数字技术学府」，其虚拟学习环境采用 Blackboard Ultra 平台。

• Sunway Medical Centre, the university's principal teaching hospital, is the largest private quaternary hospital in Malaysia and was ranked first nationally and 138th globally in Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals 2026.该校的主要教学医院双威医疗中心，是马来西亚规模最大的私立四级医院，并在《新闻周刊》2026 年全球最佳医院榜单中位列马来西亚第一、全球第 138。

• The university hosts the Asian headquarters of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and offers Malaysia's first Master in Sustainable Development Management.该校设有联合国可持续发展解决方案网络的亚洲总部，并开设马来西亚首个可持续发展管理硕士项目。

• Sunway iLabs, the innovation and corporate venture arm of the Sunway Group, supports student start-ups through its LaunchX accelerator, while the Xplorer Hub lets students of any discipline take entrepreneurship modules.双威集团旗下的创新与企业投资部门双威 iLabs，通过 LaunchX 加速器支持学生创业，而「探索者中心」则让任何专业的学生都能修读创业类模块。

Campus

• The main campus covers about 22 acres in Bandar Sunway and houses both Sunway University and Sunway College.主校区位于双威镇，占地约 22 英亩，同时容纳双威大学与双威学院。

• The campus is served by the Sunway BRT line, which links through interchange stations to the LRT and KTM networks and to central Kuala Lumpur.校园由双威快速公交线服务，该线经换乘站连接轻快铁与马来亚铁道网络，并通往吉隆坡市中心。

• The Canopy Walk, an elevated pedestrian walkway system, connects the campus to Sunway Pyramid, Sunway Lagoon, Sunway Medical Centre and Sunway Square Mall.「林冠步道」是一套高架步行系统，将校园与双威金字塔、双威水上乐园、双威医疗中心以及双威广场商场相连。

• The main university building, completed in 2015, contains laboratories, classrooms, a cafeteria and the campus library, and the campus has a FIFA-certified football field and a gymnasium.2015 年落成的主楼设有实验室、教室、餐厅与校园图书馆，校园内还有一块获国际足联认证的足球场与一座体育馆。

• The Sunway Square campus, opened in late 2025, houses Sunway Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences together with film, recording and webcast studios.2025 年末启用的双威广场校区容纳双威商学院与人文社会科学学院，并配有电影、录音与网络直播摄影棚。

• The Jeffrey Cheah Performing Arts Centre offers a 1,200-seat Proscenium Theatre and a 150-seat Experimental Theatre, and was due to hold its inaugural event in August 2026.谢富年表演艺术中心设有 1,200 座的镜框式剧场与 150 座的实验剧场，定于 2026 年 8 月举行首场演出。

• Sunway's Faculty of Engineering and Technology is housed in a Net-Zero Carbon building that reduces embodied carbon by over 40 per cent and cuts energy use by up to 50 per cent.双威的工程与技术学院设于一座净零碳建筑内，该建筑减少逾 40% 的隐含碳，并把能耗降低多达 50%。

• Student accommodation includes Sun-U Residence, Waterfront Residences and Sun-U Apartment, managed by Sunway House Student Residences.学生住宿包括双威大学宿舍、滨水住宅与双威大学公寓，由双威学生宿舍管理机构运营。

• The Graduate Centre building provides additional lecture halls and study spaces, including a rooftop study deck, while the main building houses the Hussein Onn Sunway Library, the campus cafeteria and laboratories.研究生中心大楼提供更多讲堂与学习空间，包括屋顶研习平台，而主楼则设有敦侯赛因·奥恩双威图书馆、校园餐厅与实验室。

• Facilities at the Sunway Square campus include film, post-production, Foley and recording studios, a webcast studio, a recital hall with a grand piano, a real-world trading room and behavioural laboratories.双威广场校区的设施包括电影、后期制作、拟音与录音棚、网络直播室、配有大钢琴的演奏厅、真实交易室以及行为实验室。

• In 2025 the campus was awarded GreenRE Platinum certification in recognition of its sustainability features, and the Faculty of Engineering and Technology occupies a Net-Zero Carbon building.2025 年，校园因其可持续性设计获颁 GreenRE 白金认证，工程与技术学院则设于一座净零碳建筑之内。

Reputation

• Sunway University is ranked 354th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and 283rd in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.双威大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 354，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 283。

• It is placed 497th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 497，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 901 至 1000 区间。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 12,520 research works attracting 351,668 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 12,520 项研究成果，累计被引用 351,668 次。

• In the 2026 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings the university was placed 45th in the world for its contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，该校因对可持续发展目标的贡献而位列全球第 45。

• It ranked 124th in the world in the 2025 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings and continues to improve in the QS Sustainability Rankings.在 2025 年世界大学绿色指标排名中，该校位列全球第 124，并在 QS 可持续发展排名中持续上升。

• The university was ranked first in the AppliedHE Private University Ranking for ASEAN 2026, its third consecutive first place in that table.该校在 2026 年东南亚私立大学排名中位列第一，这是它连续第三届在该榜单上夺冠。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 it was placed in the 51-100 band for Hospitality and Leisure Management and appeared in ten subject areas in total.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，其酒店与休闲管理位列 51 至 100 区间，并在共十个学科领域上榜。

• Times Higher Education placed it in the 151-175 band for Business and Economics in its 2026 subject rankings, and ARWU ranked it 51-75 for Business Administration in 2025.泰晤士高等教育在其 2026 年学科排名中将该校的商科与经济学列于 151 至 175 区间，软科则在 2025 年将其工商管理列于 51 至 75 区间。

• Sunway has been named the university with the most employable graduates in Malaysia by Talentbank for five consecutive years, from 2022 to 2026.双威连续五年（2022 至 2026 年）被人才库机构评为马来西亚毕业生就业力最强的大学。

• In ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 it was placed 51-75 in the world for Business Administration and in the 201-300 band for Economics and for Energy Science and Engineering.在 2025 年软科世界一流学科排名中，其工商管理位列全球 51 至 75 区间，经济学与能源科学与工程则位列 201 至 300 区间。

Student life

• The university hosts more than 100 clubs and societies covering leadership, sport, recreation, hobbies and nationalities, and has students from more than 90 countries.该校设有一百多个社团，涵盖学生领导、体育、娱乐、兴趣与各国籍学生群体，学生来自 90 多个国家。

• Major student-led events include the annual SunFest and the Rock the Goals Concert, which supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.主要的学生主办活动包括一年一度的「SunFest」与支持联合国可持续发展目标的「Rock the Goals」音乐会。

• Sustainability is embedded in the curriculum through the S.U.S.T.A.I.N framework, under which all students take sustainability-based modules in addition to their subject courses.可持续性通过「S.U.S.T.A.I.N」框架嵌入课程，所有学生除专业课程外还须修读可持续性模块。

• The campus applies a zero-plastic policy under its Zero Plastic Hour campaign, so that vendors and tenants no longer use single-use plastics.校园推行零塑料政策，在「无塑料时段」活动中要求商户与租户不再使用一次性塑料制品。

• Students take part in community work such as the Desa Mentari Community Development Programme, which serves an urban-poor neighbourhood in the Klang Valley.学生参与「迪沙门塔里社区发展计划」等社区工作，服务巴生谷的一个城市贫困社区。

• The Sunway Student Volunteers club organised 324 events in 2025, and in 2026 the university raised RM 4,880 for the Malaysian Association for the Blind.双威学生志愿者社团在 2025 年组织了 324 场活动，2026 年该校又为马来西亚盲人协会筹得 4,880 林吉特。

• In 2024 Times Higher Education gave the university its Outstanding Support for Students award in recognition of student support and well-being.2024 年，泰晤士高等教育授予该校「杰出学生支持奖」，以肯定其在学生支持与福祉方面的表现。

• Industry figures serve as coaches under the Success X-Factor Coaching Model, which assigns every student a mentor from industry for career guidance.在「成功 X 因素教练模式」下，来自业界的人士担任导师，为每位学生配备一名产业导师以提供职业指导。

• Under the Success X-Factor Coaching Model every student is assigned an industry coach, and the coaches have included the celebrity chef Wan, the corporate leader Idris Jala and the squash champion Nicol David.在「成功 X 因素教练模式」下，每位学生都配有一名产业导师，导师阵容曾包括名厨万师傅、企业领袖伊德里斯·贾拉与壁球名将妮科尔·戴维。

• The university holds career events such as the Get Hired Career Fair and Employer Day, and it reports a 100 per cent employment rate in the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education's Tracer Study.该校举办「Get Hired」招聘会与雇主日等活动，并据马来西亚高等教育部的毕业生追踪调查报告了 100% 的就业率。

Notable people

• Jeffrey Cheah, founder and chairman of the Sunway Group, established the university's governing foundation and serves as its Chancellor.双威集团创办人兼主席谢富年设立了治理该校的基金会，并担任校监。

• Elizabeth Lee serves as the group chief executive of the Sunway Education Group, which oversees sixteen institutions including the university.伊丽莎白·李担任双威教育集团的总执行长，该集团管理包括该校在内的十六所教育机构。

• Sibrandes Poppema, a former president of the University of Groningen, has served as president and vice-chancellor of Sunway University since 2021.曾任格罗宁根大学校长的西布兰德斯·波佩马自 2021 年起担任双威大学校长兼副校长。

• Abhi Veerakumarasivam is the university's provost and deputy vice-chancellor, its second-most senior executive and chief academic leader.阿比·维拉库马拉斯瓦姆是该校的教务长兼副校长，也是校内第二高级别的管理者与首席学术负责人。

• Jemilah Mahmood, a physician and humanitarian, serves as executive director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health.医生与人道工作者杰米拉·马哈茂德出任星球健康中心的执行主任。

• Steven Sim Chee Keong, Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development and member of parliament for Bukit Mertajam, is an alumnus of the university.企业家与合作社发展部长、大山脚国会议员沈志勤是该校校友。

• Jenny Choy Tsi Jen, Deputy Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly and assembly member for Canning, also studied at Sunway.霹雳州立法议会副议长、甘宁州议员珍妮·蔡也曾就读于双威。

• Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor is an actress, television host and founder of the modest-wear label Naelofar Hijab who studied at the university.诺·尼洛法是演员、电视主持人，也是端庄服饰品牌「Naelofar Hijab」的创办人，曾在双威求学。

• Heidy Quah Gaik Ru founded the refugee charity Refuge for the Refugees and was the first Malaysian woman to receive the Queen's Young Leader Award.郭玉茹创办了难民援助机构「Refuge for the Refugees」，是首位获得女王青年领袖奖的马来西亚女性。

• Leong Mun Yee is a retired diver, four-time Olympian and co-winner of Malaysia's first ever World Championship diving medal.梁敏仪是退役跳水运动员、四届奥运会选手，也是马来西亚首枚世界锦标赛跳水奖牌的共同获得者。

• Mahathir Mohamad and Musa bin Hitam, then prime minister and deputy prime minister, attended the opening of the Sunway College building in 1993.时任首相马哈蒂尔·穆罕默德与副首相慕沙·希塔姆出席了 1993 年双威学院大楼的启用仪式。