Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology

Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, abbreviated TAR UMT, is a non-profit private university in Malaysia named after the country's first prime minister and recognised as a Premier Digital Tech Institution.拉曼大学简称 TAR UMT，是马来西亚一所非营利私立大学，校名取自该国首任首相东姑阿都拉曼，并获认证为数码科技重点院校。

The institution opened in 1969 as Tunku Abdul Rahman College, was upgraded to Tunku Abdul Rahman University College on 2 May 2013, and has carried its present title since the 2019 upgrade and renaming under which it is listed in the world tables.该校 1969 年以拉曼学院开学，2013 年 5 月 2 日升格为拉曼大学学院，2019 年升格改名后沿用现名，各世界榜单亦据此收录。

It now teaches more than 38,000 students across six Malaysian states, counts an alumni network of over 330,000, and is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校如今在马来西亚六个州办学，学生逾 38,000 人，校友网络逾 33 万人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 801-850 位。

History

• The college answered a shortage felt in the early years of Malaysian independence, when, as the record puts it, there was a lack of opportunity to pursue higher education for the local population.学院的设立回应了马来西亚独立初年的缺口，据记载，当时本地居民缺乏继续升读高等教育的机会。

• The idea of an institution of higher learning was put forward by Tan Siew Sin in his capacity as president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, the party which thereafter carried the project forward.兴办高等院校之议由马来西亚华人公会会长陈修信提出，此后正是该会把这一计划逐步推向实现。

• Tan first suggested a Chinese-language Merdeka University, a proposal the government rejected, and the English-medium college which was then offered as a compromise became the institution founded in 1969.陈修信最初提议创办华文授课的独立大学，该议为政府所拒，随后改以英文授课的学院作为折衷方案，即 1969 年创办的这所学校。

• In April 1968 Tan appointed a working team to make recommendations for an institution of higher learning, placing that team under the chairmanship of Khaw Kai Boh.1968 年 4 月，陈修信委任工委会就高等院校一事提出建议，并由丘光波担任该工委会主席。

• The blueprint produced by the working team was submitted to the government and drew the support of Mohamed Khir Johari, then serving as Minister of Education.工委会拟定的蓝图提交政府，获得时任教育部长穆罕默德·希尔·乔里的支持。

• That team estimated that RM 20 million would be required to set up the college, and the government agreed to give financial assistance on a dollar-for-dollar basis against the money the association raised.工委会估算创院需 2,000 万令吉，政府同意按协会所募款项一元对一元地拨付资助。

• Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman consented that the college be named after him, which is why the institution and the first prime minister share one title to this day.首相东姑阿都拉曼同意以他的名字为学院命名，因此这所学府与首任首相至今共用一名。

• On 24 February 1969 TAR College began operations with its School of Pre-University Studies and an initial enrolment of 764 students, the figures on which its own history rests.1969 年 2 月 24 日，拉曼学院随预科课程学校开学，首批注册学生 764 人，该校自家历史即以这两个数字为根基。

• An Instrument of Government dated 15 September 1972 supplied the legal framework for the administration of the college, ten years after teaching had already begun on its pre-university courses.1972 年 9 月 15 日颁布的政府约法为学院行政提供法律框架，此时距其预科课程开学已经十年。

• To pay for a campus in Kuala Lumpur the association launched a national fundraising campaign in 1972, placing it in the hands of Lee San Choon, then its publicity director.为筹措吉隆坡校园经费，该会于 1972 年发动全国募捐，交由时任宣传主任李三春主持。

• In February 1973 the government approved the allocation of land for the main Kuala Lumpur campus at Setapak, the site on which the university still stands.1973 年 2 月，政府批准在文良港拨地兴建吉隆坡主校区，该校今日仍立于此地。

• The ground-breaking ceremony for that campus was officiated by Rahman himself in August 1973, six months after the land approval of February that year.该校区奠基礼于 1973 年 8 月由阿都拉曼本人主持，距当年 2 月的拨地决议恰隔六月。

• Phase one of the new campus, an administrative building, a library, two laboratory blocks, one large and eight small lecture theatres and a canteen, was completed in 1976.新校园第一期于 1976 年完工，含行政楼一座、图书馆一座、实验楼两座、大讲堂一间与小讲堂八间以及食堂。

• Fundraising in the 1990s took the form of mass events, the nationwide TAR College Fund-Raising Campaign, Taxithon, Walkathon, TAR College Torch Run and Motorthon all led by council chairman Ling Liong Sik.1990 年代的募捐以大型活动形式进行，全国拉曼学院募捐运动与（Taxithon、Walkathon、Torch Run、Motorthon）诸役均由理事会主席林良实主导。

• Expansion of the college estate continued under the chairmanship of two later council chairmen, Ong Ka Ting and Chua Soi Lek, each of whom inherited a building programme rather than starting one.校园扩建在其后两任理事会主席黄家定与蔡绍林任内延续，两人各接手既有的建设计划而非另行开创。

• The first branch campus opened at Penang in 1994, beginning at a temporary location before moving to Tanjung Bungah five years later, in 1999.第一所分校于 1994 年在槟城开设，先借临时校址授课，五年后即 1999 年迁至峇东埔。

• A second and a third branch were founded in 1998, at Kampar in Perak and in Johor, so that in four years the college had tripled its number of teaching sites.第二与第三所分校创设于 1998 年，分别在霹雳州金宝与柔佛，四年之间学院教学点增至三倍。

• The Pahang branch followed in 1999 and the Sabah branch in 2002, the last of them placed in East Malaysia and giving the institution a footprint on both sides of the South China Sea.彭亨分校继于 1999 年设立，沙巴分校于 2002 年设立，后者位于东马，使该校的布点遍及南中国海两岸。

• On 2 May 2013 the college was upgraded to university college status and became Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, shortened in its own documents to TAR University College or TAR UC, the name its graduates held before the present title arrived.2013 年 5 月 2 日，学院升格为大学学院，称拉曼大学学院（TAR UC），此名即现校名之前毕业生所用的称谓。

• In 2019 the institution was upgraded and renamed as Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, while the same record also dates its full-fledged university status to 2022, so two years circulate for one change of rank.2019 年该校升格并改名为东姑阿都拉曼管理与科技大学，而同一记载又将其完整大学地位系于 2022 年，故一次升格并存两个年份。

• Infrastructure work in the present century was crowned by a student centre: its ground-breaking was held on 30 October 2021 and its topping-out ceremony on 22 August 2024.本世纪的基建以学生中心为标志：其奠基礼于 2021 年 10 月 30 日举行，封顶礼于 2024 年 8 月 22 日举行。

• That centre was opened to use on 19 September 2025 under the name TAR UMT Arena, a facility of 1.5 million square feet offered as a hub for students and entrepreneurs alike.该中心于 2025 年 9 月 19 日以「TAR UMT Arena」之名启用，楼面 150 万平方英尺，定位为学生与创业者共用的枢纽。

Academics

• Academic work is conducted by seven faculties and one academic centre, the Centre for Pre-University Studies being the unit which carries the pre-university function first exercised in 1969.教学与研究由七所学院与一个学术中心承担，其中预科学习中心即继承 1969 年首创的预科职能的单位。

• The seven faculties are Accountancy, Finance and Business, Applied Sciences, Computing and Information Technology, Built Environment, Engineering and Technology, Communication and Creative Industries, and Social Science and Humanities.七所学院依序为会计金融与商学院、应用科学学院、计算与信息技术学院、建成环境学院、工程与技术学院、传播与创意产业学院、社会科学与人文学院。

• In the accounting field the university reports itself the only institution in the world to conduct the Internally Assessed ACCA Fundamentals programme, an arrangement which lets students take those papers in-house.在会计领域，该校自述为全世界唯一开办国际注册会计师基础阶段内部考核项目的院校，学生得在校内应考该组试卷。

• It is also the only institution in Malaysia to have been granted Graduate Gateway status by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a route which recognises its marketing degrees towards that body's qualifications.该校亦是马来西亚唯一获英国特许营销协会授予毕业直通资格的院校，此项资格认定其营销学位可衔接该协会的专业文凭。

• Its real estate degree programmes are accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors of the United Kingdom, the university being among the earliest private institutions in Malaysia to hold that recognition.其不动产学位课程获英国皇家特许测量师学会认证，该校在马来西亚私立院校中属最早取得该认可以及者之一。

• The same built environment faculty has its quantity surveying and construction programmes accredited by the Chartered Institute of Building, so two professional bodies vouch for the schools' degrees.建成环境学院的工料测量与建筑课程获英国特许建造学会认证，故有两家专业机构为其学位背书。

• On the computing side the institution is recognised as a Premier Digital Tech Institution by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation, a national designation aimed at digital-skills teaching.在信息领域，该校获马来西亚数码经济机构认可为数码科技重点院校，此为国家层面针对数码技能教学的认定。

• The Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering and Technology supply the science and engineering side of the offer, the former covering laboratory-based programmes and the second the technician and engineer tracks.应用科学学院与工程与技术学院构成理学与工学一面，前者主办实验类课程，后者主办技术员与工程师类课程。

• Two faculties cover the media and the human side of the curriculum, the Faculty of Communication and Creative Industries and the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, whose abbreviations appear in the university's own programme lists.传播与创意产业学院、社会科学与人文学院覆盖课程的媒介与人文两面，两院缩写见于该校自订的专业名录。

• The centre which opened the institution in 1969 survives as the single non-faculty academic unit in the present structure, keeping pre-university study inside a university rather than outside it.1969 年创校的那个中心今存为现行架构中唯一的非学院学术单位，使预科学习留在校内而非校外。

• National quality assessment reaches the university through the SETARA Ratings, in which it is placed in the Competitive category, the Malay term for which is Berdaya Saing.国家质量评估经马来西亚大学评级系统达及该校，其列于「具竞争力」档，马来语作 Berdaya Saing。

• The discipline-level counterpart of that exercise, the discipline-based rating maintained alongside the institutional one, is not reported with a result for this university in the material used here.与该评级并行的按学科评级体系，在本文所据材料中未载该校的学科级结果。

• Professional and industry bodies supply several of the university's public markers, the ACCA, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Royal Institution and the Chartered Institute of Building each attaching a claim to a named faculty.专业与行业机构提供该校多项公开标志：国际注册会计师协会、特许营销协会、皇家特许测量师学会与特许建造学会各就具名学院留下认定。

• Institutional recognition outside the degree system includes the Product Award and the CSR Award received at the Sin Chew Education Awards for 2018-19, honours given by a Chinese-language media group.学位体系之外的机构荣誉包括 2018-19 年星洲教育奖的产品奖与企业社会责任奖，该奖由华文传媒集团颁发。

• Two further awards sit at the boundary of sport and employment: the Esports Academy of the Year at the Malaysia Esports Awards for 2023, and the People and Purpose Excellence Awards at the SEEK platform awards for 2026.另有两项荣誉分属竞技与就业两端：2023 年马来西亚电竞奖的年度电竞学院，以及 2026 年 SEEK 平台奖的人才与使命卓越奖。

• On research scale the record gives neither a publication count nor a citation count for the university, so the measurable figures here remain institutional: seven faculties, one academic centre, six states and more than 38,000 students.就科研规模而言，记载既未给该校论文数亦未给引用数，因此可计量的数字仍是机构口径：七所学院、一个学术中心、六个州与逾 38,000 名学生。

• The university states strategic partnerships with universities across the globe but names no partner institution in the material used, and no figure of academic staff or student-to-staff ratio is published there either.该校自述与全球高校结有战略伙伴，但所据材料未点名任何合作院校，亦未披露教师人数或生师比。

• Enrolment is given as a population of more than 38,000 spread over six states, and the alumni network as more than 330,000, the two counts being the only size figures the record attaches to the institution.在校生记为遍及六个州逾 38,000 人，校友网络记为逾 33 万人，这两项是记载附于该校仅有的规模数字。

Campus

• The main campus covers 171 acres, or 69 hectares, at Jalan Genting Kelang in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, the area given for the institution in its own account.主校区占地 171 英亩即 69 公顷，位于马来西亚首都吉隆坡的 Jalan Genting Kelang 路，此面积数字出自该校自述。

• The Kuala Lumpur site sits at latitude 3.1412 and longitude 101.68653, placing the university in the north-western belt of Peninsular Malaysia rather than in East Malaysia.吉隆坡校址坐标为北纬 3.1412、东经 101.68653，该校因而位于马来半岛西北带，而非东马。

• Around the capital the university is established in six states in Malaysia, with five branch campuses besides Kuala Lumpur itself, in Penang, Perak, Johor, Pahang and Sabah.该校在马来西亚六个州设学，除吉隆坡本校外另有五所分校，分处槟城、霹雳、柔佛、彭亨与沙巴。

• The Penang branch, the first to open in 1994, moved to Tanjung Bungah in 1999, so that the coast of the north-west became its home after five years of temporary premises.1994 年最先开设的槟城分校于 1999 年迁至峇东埔，西北海岸遂在五年借用临时校址之后成为其归宿。

• The Perak branch stands at Kampar, the Johor branch was founded in 1998, the Pahang branch in 1999 and the Sabah branch in 2002, a sequence which fixed the present network within eight years.霹雳分校位于金宝，柔佛分校创设于 1998 年，彭亨分校于 1999 年、沙巴分校于 2002 年设立，现有布点在八年之内成形。

• The historic core of the Kuala Lumpur campus dates from 1976, when the administrative building, the library, two laboratory blocks and nine lecture theatres of phase one were handed over for use.吉隆坡校园的历史核心可溯至 1976 年，当时第一期行政楼、图书馆、两座实验楼与九间讲堂交予使用。

• To that core the university added the TAR UMT Arena, whose 1.5 million square feet were topped out on 22 August 2024 and opened on 19 September 2025 as a hub of student activity and entrepreneurial innovation.在该核心之上，校方增建「TAR UMT Arena」，其 150 万平方英尺楼面于 2024 年 8 月 22 日封顶、2025 年 9 月 19 日启用，作为学生活动与创业创新的枢纽。

• No area figures are published for the five branch campuses, and no total floor space is given for the estate beyond the 1.5 million square feet of the Arena, so the campus map is documented only by dates.五所分校未公布占地数字，除 Arena 的 150 万平方英尺外全校舍亦无楼面总数，因此校园版图仅以年代可考。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology is listed in the 801-850 band, a tied range shared with the other institutions of that stretch of the table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，东姑阿都拉曼管理与科技大学列入第 801-850 位，此并列区间为该档其余院校所共有。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the wider 801-1000 band, so the two 2027 tables agree on the same opening hundreds while differing on the width of the range.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入更宽的 801-1000 位区间，两榜于同一开段数百位判断一致，而在区间宽窄上不同。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking the institution is given the single world place of 1359, a position well behind its two 2027 league-table bands and reported on a different methodology.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校获世界第 1359 位这一单一名次，远在其 2027 两榜区间之后，且方法学另为一套。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Shanghai main list of a thousand places into which it does not enter.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中未载该校名次，该主榜取一千个席位，该校未进入其中。

• Subject ranking is the weak side of this record, since none of the four tables consulted here gives the university a named subject place, its disciplinary visibility resting instead on professional accreditation.学科排名是这一记录的短板：所核四榜均未给该校具名学科位次，其学科能见度转由专业认证承担。

• Those subject-level markers are the Royal Institution accreditation of its real estate degrees, the Chartered Institute accreditation of its quantity surveying and construction programmes, the ACCA arrangement in accounting and the Chartered Institute of Marketing gateway.这些学科层面的标志包括不动产学位的皇家特许测量师学会认证、工料测量与建筑课程的特许建造学会认证、会计领域的国际注册会计师安排以及特许营销协会的直通资格。

• As a measurable national standing the university holds the Competitive category of the SETARA Ratings and the Premier Digital Tech Institution designation of the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation, both being assigned by Malaysian bodies rather than by league tables.作为可计量的国内地位，该校持有马来西亚大学评级系统的「具竞争力」档与数码经济机构的数码科技重点院校认定，两者皆由马来西亚机构评定而非榜单所给。

• Its quantifiable institutional scale, used here in place of publication counts, runs to seven faculties, one academic centre, six states of presence, five branch campuses and more than 38,000 students in a body of more than 330,000 graduates.本文以可计量的机构规模替代论文数字：七所学院、一个学术中心、六个州布点、五所分校、在校生逾 38,000 人，而毕业生群体逾 33 万人。

• On the honour side nothing is available: no Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal affiliation is recorded for the university or its predecessors, and its highest recognitions are the institutional and industry awards listed above.就顶级荣誉而言一无所获：该校及其前身均无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖的关联记载，其最高认定仅为上列机构与行业奖项。

Student life

• The university puts forward a philosophy of Beyond Education as its lifelong mission, an aim stated as providing students with a fulfilling learning experience beyond academic knowledge and skills.该校以「Beyond Education」为终身使命，其目标表述为让学生在知识技能之外获得充实的学习体验。

• Student life is distributed rather than centred, since the more than 38,000 students are taught across six Malaysian states, at Kuala Lumpur and at branches in Penang, Perak, Johor, Pahang and Sabah.校园生活呈分散而非集中之势：逾 38,000 名学生分布于马来西亚六个州，就学于吉隆坡本校区及槟城、霹雳、柔佛、彭亨、沙巴五所分校。

• The newest focus of that life is the Arena at the Kuala Lumpur campus, opened on 19 September 2025 and described in the record as a vibrant hub for student activities and entrepreneurial innovation.校园生活的最新核心是吉隆坡校区的 Arena，该馆 2025 年 9 月 19 日启用，记载称其为学生活动与创业创新的活力枢纽。

• Electronic competition has an institutional place, the university being the first institution named Esports Academy of the Year at the inaugural Malaysia Esports Awards, an honour it repeats in the 2023 edition.电子竞技在此有建制位置：该校在首届马来西亚电竞奖中获命名为年度电竞学院，是为首家，此项荣誉见于 2023 年一届。

• The pre-university stage remains part of campus life because the Centre for Pre-University Studies, lineal descendant of the school which opened the college in 1969, still conducts programmes inside the university.预科阶段仍是校园生活的一环：预科学习中心上承 1969 年开学时的那所学校，至今仍在大学内部开设课程。

• Graduates remain tied to the institution through an alumni network of more than 330,000, a body the university itself presents as one of its strengths and as a channel into employment.毕业生经逾 33 万人的校友网络与母校相连，该校自陈此网络为其优势之一，也是通向就业的渠道。

• No student union, society, student newspaper or named first sports team appears in the material used for this entry, and the sizes of residential halls and sports clubs remain undocumented here.本文所据材料未见学生会、社团、学生媒体或具名校队，宿舍与体育俱乐部的规模在本条目中仍属缺载。

Notable people

• The founding political figure is Tan Siew Sin, president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, whose proposal for an institution of higher learning began the process that opened the college in 1969.创校的政治人物是马来西亚华人公会总会长陈修信（Tan Siew Sin），其兴学之议启动了 1969 年学院开学的全过程。

• Khaw Kai Boh chaired the working team appointed in April 1968, and it was that team's blueprint, costing the college RM 20 million, which the government agreed to match.丘楷明（Khaw Kai Boh）主持 1968 年 4 月受委的工委会，正是该会所拟、估算需 2,000 万令吉的蓝图获政府同意按比例配套。

• Mohamed Khir Johari, Minister of Education at the time the blueprint was submitted, is recorded as having supported the scheme, an administrative endorsement without which the college would hardly have been licensed.时任教育部长穆罕默德·基尔·乔哈里（Mohamed Khir Johari）在蓝图提交之际据载予以支持，若无此行政背书，学院未必能获得开办许可。

• The naming patron is Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, who consented that the college bear his name and who officiated the ground-breaking of the Setapak campus in August 1973.命名者是首相东姑阿都拉曼（Tunku Abdul Rahman）：他同意学院以其名为名，并于 1973 年 8 月为文良港校区主持奠基礼。

• Lee San Choon, publicity director of the association, led the national fundraising campaign of 1972 which paid for the Kuala Lumpur campus, the money being matched by the government.该会宣传主任李三春（Lee San Choon）主持 1972 年全国募捐，为吉隆坡校区筹得经费，此款由政府对等配套。

• Ling Liong Sik as chairman of the college council led the mass fundraising of the 1990s, the Taxithon, Walkathon, Torch Run and Motorthon being held under his presidency of that council.林良实任学院理事会主席时主导 1990 年代的大型募捐，（Taxithon、Walkathon、Torch Run、Motorthon）诸役皆在其主席任内举行。

• Two further council chairmen, Ong Ka Ting and Chua Soi Lek, are credited in the record with continuing the expansion of the estate, the branch campuses of the late 1990s falling inside their terms.其后两任理事会主席黄家定（Ong Ka Ting）与蔡绍林（Chua Soi Lek）被记载为延续校园扩张，1990 年代末数所分校正落在其任内。

• Among graduates in public office are Chow Kon Yeow, recorded as Chief Minister of Penang from 2018, and Teresa Kok, Member of Parliament for Seputeh from 1999, the two longest tenures named for alumni in the material used.仕于公门的校友包括记载为自 2018 年起任槟城首席部长的周康耀（Chow Kon Yeow）与自 1999 年起任文良港选区国会议员的郭素沁（Teresa Kok），此为材料中为校友所记任期最长的两人。

• Three further office-holders appear in the same list, Salahuddin Ayub as minister of domestic trade and living costs from 2022 to 2023 and Chong Eng, Teo Kok Seong and Liow Cai Tung as members of state executive councils from 2013, 2018 and 2018.同一名录另列三位任职者：2022 至 2023 年任国内贸易与生活成本部长的萨拉哈丁阿尤布（Salahuddin Ayub），以及分别自 2013 年、2018 年、2018 年起任州行政议员的陈慧英（Chong Eng）、张国松（Teo Kok Seong）与李蔡金（Liow Cai Tung）。

• Outside politics the record names entertainers and professionals, Karen Kong Cheng Tshe as a singer, Wayne Chua Poi Suan as an actress, Gan Mei Yan as actress and host, Roger Tan Kor Mee as a lawyer and Chan Phei Yong as a media personality.政界之外，记载另列演艺与专业人士，即歌手龚柯允、演员蔡佩璇、演员兼主持人甘美燕（Gan Mei Yan）、律师 Roger Tan Kor Mee 与媒体人陈培永（Chan Phei Yong）。