Universiti Malaya (UM)

Universiti Malaya (UM, English: University of Malaya) is a public research university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is the country's oldest institution of higher learning, tracing its origin to a medical school founded in Singapore in 1905.马来亚大学（马来文：Universiti Malaya，简称 UM；英文：University of Malaya）是位于马来西亚吉隆坡的公立研究型大学，也是该国历史最悠久的高等学府，其源头可追溯到 1905 年在新加坡创办的一所医学院。

It took its present form on 8 October 1949 through the merger of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College, and the Kuala Lumpur campus retained the name when the university was divided in 1962.该校于 1949 年 10 月 8 日由爱德华七世国王医学院与莱佛士学院合并而成；1962 年大学分设时，吉隆坡校址保留了马来亚大学的名称。

Organised into 14 faculties with about 34,934 students in 2024, it is placed 56th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and was ranked 12th in Asia in the QS Asia University Rankings 2025.该校下设 14 个学院，2024 年在校学生约 34,934 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 56 位，并在 2025 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中位列亚洲第 12 位。

History

• In September 1904 Tan Jiak Kim, a Chinese community leader in Singapore, led a petition to Governor Sir John Anderson for a medical school to serve local needs, raising substantial funds including a personal donation of twelve thousand dollars.1904 年 9 月，新加坡华人社区领袖陈若锦率众向总督约翰·安德森爵士请愿，要求设立一所服务本地需求的医学院，并筹得大笔经费，其中他个人捐款达一万二千元。
• Legislation was passed by the Straits Legislative Council in June 1905 as Act XV of 1905, and the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School opened on 3 July 1905 with registered students.海峡殖民地立法议会于 1905 年 6 月通过第 XV-1905 号法案，海峡与马来联邦政府医学院遂于 1905 年 7 月 3 日开办，并招收了注册学生。
• The school was formally inaugurated by Sir John Anderson on 28 September 1905, the date the university now regards as its founding, beginning with seventeen medical students, four of whom took a hospital assistant course.该校于 1905 年 9 月 28 日由约翰·安德森爵士正式主持开办，这一天被学校视为建校日；首届有 17 名医学生，其中 4 人修读医院助理课程。
• Within five years enrolment had grown to ninety medical students and thirty trainee hospital assistants, reflecting strong demand for trained medical staff in British Malaya.五年之内，注册学生增至 90 名医学生与 30 名实习医院助理，反映出英属马来亚对受训医务人员的强烈需求。
• In 1912 the school was renamed the King Edward VII Medical School, and in 1921 it was elevated in status to become the King Edward VII College of Medicine.1912 年，该校更名为爱德华七世国王医学院；1921 年，其地位获得提升，成为爱德华七世国王医学院（College of Medicine）。
• A Department of Dentistry was established in 1927, extending the college beyond general medicine into dental training for the region.1927 年，该校设立牙科学系，使学院在普通医学之外扩展到该地区的牙科人才培养。
• Raffles College was founded in Singapore in 1928 with an inaugural batch of 43 students as a college for higher education in the arts and sciences.莱佛士学院于 1928 年在新加坡创办，首屆招收 43 名学生，是一所提供文科与理科高等教育的高等学府。
• The Carr-Saunders Commission on University Education in Malaya reported in 1948 and recommended that the King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College be merged into a single university for Malaya.1948 年，马来亚大学教育委员会（卡尔-桑德斯委员会）发表报告，建议将爱德华七世国王医学院与莱佛士学院合并为一所面向马来亚的大学。
• On 8 October 1949 the two colleges were merged to create the University of Malaya, taking its name from the term Malaya by which the country was then known.1949 年 10 月 8 日，两所学院合并成立马来亚大学，其校名取自当时对这片国土的称呼「马来亚」。
• Rapid growth during its first decade led to the establishment of two autonomous divisions on 15 January 1959, one in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur.由于办学首个十年发展迅速，该校于 1959 年 1 月 15 日设立两个自治分部，分别位于新加坡与吉隆坡。
• Legislation passed in 1961 changed the status of the two divisions, and on 1 January 1962 the Kuala Lumpur division became Universiti Malaya while the Singapore division became the University of Singapore.1961 年通过的立法改变了两个分部的地位；1962 年 1 月 1 日，吉隆坡分部成为马来亚大学，新加坡分部则成为新加坡大学。
• On 16 June 1962 the university installed Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the country's first prime minister, as its first Chancellor.1962 年 6 月 16 日，该校为该国首任首相东姑阿都拉曼·布特拉·阿尔哈吉举行了首任校监（Chancellor）就职典礼。
• In 1965 the University of Singapore was renamed the National University of Singapore after the city separated from Malaysia.1965 年，新加坡脱离马来西亚独立后，新加坡大学更名为新加坡国立大学。
• The University Hospital, now the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, had its foundation stone laid in 1965 by Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and admitted its first patients in March 1967.大学医院（今马来亚大学医疗中心）的奠基石于 1965 年由副首相敦阿都拉萨安放，并自 1967 年 3 月起收治首批病人。
• The University Statute of September 1962 established the Faculty of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, and Dr. T. J. Danaraj became its foundation dean in February 1963, admitting forty pre-medical students to train about a hundred doctors a year.1962 年 9 月颁布的大学章程在吉隆坡设立医学院，T. J. 达纳拉吉博士于 1963 年 2 月出任创院院长，招收了 40 名医学预科生，计划每年培养约一百名医生。
• The Faculty of Dentistry was developed from 1971 under Dean Ibrahim Yassin Al-Haj, and its purpose-built complex was completed and opened in 1975.牙科学院自 1971 年起在院长易卜拉欣·亚辛·阿尔哈吉主持下筹建，其专用院舍于 1975 年落成启用。
• In 1973 the university's department of agriculture merged with the Malay Agricultural College to form Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, now Universiti Putra Malaysia.1973 年，该校农业系与马来亚农学院合并，组成马来西亚农业大学，即今日的马来西亚博特拉大学。
• The Cultural Centre was established in 1970 to teach drama, dance and music, and it later developed into a centre for the performing and visual arts within the university.文化中心于 1970 年设立，教授戏剧、舞蹈与音乐，后来发展成为校内表演艺术与视觉艺术的中心。
• In 1995 the Bachelor of Pharmacy programme was introduced and the Department of Pharmacy opened with a first cohort of thirty-six students, responding to a national shortage of pharmacists.1995 年，该校开设药学学士课程，药学系随之成立并招收首批 36 名学生，以应对全国药剂师短缺。
• The Universiti Malaya Specialist Centre, established in 1998 and housed in its own building from 2007, was created to retain medical specialists in the public sector.马来亚大学专科中心于 1998 年设立，并于 2007 年迁入自建大楼，其创办旨在挽留公共部门的医学专才。
• In 2012 the Ministry of Higher Education granted the university autonomy, giving it greater control over its finances, staffing and academic programmes.2012 年，马来西亚高等教育部授予该校自治权，使其在财务、人事与学术课程方面拥有更大的自主权。
• A new Faculty of Pharmacy was announced in 2019, and a strategic plan brought the medical and health faculties together under the banner UMHealth, launched in the early 2020s.2019 年，该校宣布成立新的药学院；一项战略规划把医学与健康类学院整合到名为 UMHealth 的框架之下，并于 2020 年代初启动。

Academics

• The university comprises 14 faculties, 2 academies, 2 institutes, more than 70 research centres and 4 research clusters, offering some 200 academic programmes.该校设有 14 个学院、2 个学院级学术单位、2 个研究所、70 多个研究中心与 4 个研究集群，提供约 200 个学术课程。
• Its faculties span arts and social sciences, business and economics, languages and linguistics, education, law, the built environment, computer science and information technology, engineering, medicine, dentistry, science, Islamic studies and Malay studies.其学院涵盖艺术与社会科学、商业与经济、语言与语言学、教育学、法学、建筑环境、计算机科学与信息技术、工程、医学、牙医、理学、伊斯兰研究与马来研究等领域。
• In 2024 the university enrolled 34,934 students, of whom 19,125 were undergraduates and 15,874 were postgraduate students, supported by 2,301 academic staff.2024 年，该校在校学生 34,934 人，其中本科生 19,125 人、研究生 15,874 人，由 2,301 名学术人员授课。
• More than 5,700 of its students come from overseas, representing over 90 countries and giving the campus a strongly international character.其中超过 5,700 名学生来自海外，代表 90 多个国家，使校园具有鲜明的国际化特质。
• Among its academic staff are 36 fellows of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, and its faculty count exceeds 2,100, more than 300 of them international.其学术人员中包括 36 名马来西亚科学院院士，全校教师逾 2,100 人，其中 300 余人为外籍。
• Medicine, law, business and management, computer science, engineering, the humanities and the social sciences are among its strongest disciplines, and it is well known for its medical and health sciences.医学、法学、商业与管理、计算机科学、工程、人文与社会科学是其最强学科，其中医学与健康科学尤为著名。
• The Faculty of Business and Economics holds accreditation from both the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the Association of MBAs.商业与经济学院同时获得国际商学院协会（AACSB）与工商管理硕士协会（AMBA）的认证。
• The university was the only institution in Malaysia to be granted institutional-level certification by the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance framework for 2018 to 2023.该校是马来西亚唯一获得东南亚大学网络质量保障（AUN-QA）机构层面认证的学府，认证期为 2018 至 2023 年。
• The Universiti Malaya Medical Centre is the country's premier teaching hospital, providing clinical training for medical, dental and pharmacy students and conducting clinical trials.马来亚大学医疗中心是全国首屈一指的教学医院，为医学、牙医与药学学生提供临床训练，并开展临床试验。
• Its research centres work on tropical and infectious diseases such as dengue and malaria, cancer treatment, biodiversity, renewable energy and Southeast Asian studies.其研究中心从事登革热、疟疾等热带与传染病研究，以及癌症治疗、生物多样性、可再生能源与东南亚研究。
• The university's Central Library, established in 1959, is a four-storey building of 17,372 square metres that seats 1,608 readers and forms part of Malaysia's largest university library system.该校中央图书馆创立于 1959 年，为一座四层建筑，建筑面积 17,372 平方米，可容纳 1,608 名读者，是马来西亚最大的大学图书馆系统的一部分。
• The library system holds more than two million volumes, including about seventy thousand Chinese-language books, and branch libraries serve engineering, law and medicine.该图书馆系统藏书逾 200 万册，其中中文图书约七万册，另有分馆分别服务于工程、法学与医学等学科。
• The university partners with more than 700 institutions worldwide and maintains academic cooperation with universities in China such as Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University.该校与全球 700 多所机构建立伙伴关系，并与清华大学、浙江大学等中国高校保持学术合作。
• In November 2023 it joined Hainan University and the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences in founding a Tropical University Alliance.2023 年 11 月，该校与海南大学及中国热带农业科学院共同发起成立热带高校联盟。
• The Academy of Islamic Studies and the Academy of Malay Studies are the university's two academies, devoted respectively to Islamic scholarship and to Malay language, literature and civilisation.伊斯兰研究学院与马来研究学院是该校的两个学院级学术单位，分别致力于伊斯兰学术以及马来语言、文学与文明的研究。
• Named research units include the Asia-Europe Institute, the Institute of China Studies and the International Institute of Public Policy and Management, alongside the Institute of Graduate Studies.其具名的研究单位包括亚欧研究所、中国研究所与国际公共政策与管理研究所，此外还有研究生院。
• Graduate study is coordinated through the Institute of Graduate Studies, and the university offers master's and doctoral degrees across all of its disciplinary fields.研究生教育由研究生院统筹，该校在其所有学科领域均开设硕士与博士学位课程。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 922 acres, or 373 hectares, in the Pantai Valley in the south-west of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.主校区占地约 922 英亩（373 公顷），位于马来西亚首都吉隆坡西南部的班台谷。
• The campus is centred at latitude 3.1412 north and longitude 101.68653 east, and it sits within the city rather than behind walls, merging with the surrounding urban fabric.校园中心位于北纬 3.1412 度、东经 101.68653 度，校园融入城市之中而非被围墙隔开，与周边城区连为一体。
• The grounds retain stretches of tropical greenery and are often described as a green lung of the city, with gardens and mature trees around the teaching buildings.校园保留了大片热带绿地，常被称为城市的绿肺，教学楼周围分布着园林与成荫的树木。
• The faculties are built along the valley slopes in a mixture of architectural styles, ranging from colonial and Southeast Asian forms to modern and contemporary designs.各学院依山而建，建筑风格杂糅，从殖民地式、东南亚式到现代与当代设计兼而有之。
• The Central Library, the university museum and the Cultural Centre are among the principal facilities on campus, together with laboratories, resource centres and exhibition halls.中央图书馆、大学博物馆与文化中心是校园的主要设施，此外还有实验室、资源中心与展览大厅。
• Student accommodation is provided in on-campus residential colleges and apartments, ranging from single to shared rooms with air conditioning, laundry and round-the-clock security.学生住宿由校内住宿学院与公寓提供，房型从单人间到合住房间不等，配有空调、洗衣设施与全天候保安。
• The university's Kuala Lumpur campus began on its present site in 1957, and it lies between the capital and Petaling Jaya in the Klang Valley, close to the country's principal transport links.该校的吉隆坡校园自 1957 年在现址起步，位于首都与八打灵再也之间的巴生谷，紧邻全国主要的交通干线。
• The medical and specialist facilities, including the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre and the Specialist Centre, are located close to the main campus in the Klang Valley.其医疗与专科设施，包括马来亚大学医疗中心与专科中心，都位于巴生谷一带主校区附近。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Universiti Malaya is placed 56th in the world and remains the highest-ranked university in Malaysia.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，马来亚大学位列世界第 56 位，仍是马来西亚排名最高的大学。
• In the QS Asia University Rankings 2025 the university was ranked 12th in Asia, third in Southeast Asia and first in Malaysia among 984 institutions.在 2025 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中，该校在 984 所院校中位列亚洲第 12 位、东南亚第 3 位、马来西亚第 1 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks the university 311th in the world, placing it among the leading research universities of the region.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将该校列为世界第 311 位，跻身本地区领先的研究型大学之列。
• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 the university reached the global top 50 in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Library and Information Management, and Theology and Religious Studies.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校的数据科学与人工智能、图书馆与信息管理、神学与宗教研究三个学科均进入全球前 50 名。
• More than forty of its subject areas appear in the global top 200, and about seventeen of them rank within the top 100 in the world.该校有 40 多个学科领域进入全球前 200 名，其中约 17 个学科位列世界前 100。
• In the QS World University Rankings the university was placed 65th in 2024 and 60th in 2025, standing first in Malaysia in each of those editions.在 QS 世界大学排名中，该校 2024 年位列第 65 位、2025 年位列第 60 位，在这两个年度均为马来西亚第一。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 106,890 works to the university with 6,235,937 citations, reflecting a substantial research output for the region.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 106,890 篇成果，被引用 6,235,937 次，显示其在本地区拥有可观的科研产出。
• The university has educated six Malaysian prime ministers, and it is a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and the Asian Universities Alliance.该校培养了 6 位马来西亚总理，并且是环太平洋大学联盟与亚洲大学联盟的成员。
• QS has rated the university a five-star institution, and its strong employer reputation and international research network are among the factors behind its high standing in Asia.QS 将该校评为五星级大学，其良好的雇主声誉与广泛的国际研究网络，是其跻身亚洲前列的重要因素。

Student life

• The university's motto is Ilmu Punca Kemajuan, a Malay phrase meaning knowledge is the source of progress.该校校训为马来语「Ilmu Punca Kemajuan」，意为「知识是进步的源泉」。
• The university's tagline, adopted in recent years, is Home of the Bright, Land of the Brave, reflecting its ambition as a global institution rooted in Malaysia.该校近年采用的标语是「Home of the Bright，Land of the Brave」（智者之家、勇者之地），体现其立足马来西亚、面向全球的志向。
• The Cultural Centre, founded in 1970, offers degrees in drama, dance and music and stages performances that draw on the Malay, Chinese, Indian and other traditions of Malaysia.文化中心创立于 1970 年，开设戏剧、舞蹈与音乐学位课程，其演出融合马来西亚的马来、华人、印度等多元传统。
• Students live in residential colleges on campus, each with its own dining halls, sports facilities and student councils, and the colleges organise annual cultural and sporting competitions.学生住在校内各住宿学院，每所学院都设有餐厅、体育设施与学生自治组织，并举办年度文化与体育竞赛。
• The university hosts more than two hundred clubs and societies spanning culture, sport, religion and academic interests, alongside an active student union.该校拥有 200 多个社团，涵盖文化、体育、宗教与学术等兴趣领域，学生自治组织也十分活跃。
• Annual events such as the university carnival and international student festivals celebrate the multicultural character of a campus drawn from more than ninety countries.大学嘉年华与国际学生节等年度活动，庆祝这个汇聚 90 多个国家成员的多元文化校园。
• Sports facilities include an Olympic-standard swimming pool, stadiums and courts, and the university competes in Malaysian varsity and ASEAN university games.体育设施包括奥林匹克标准游泳池、体育场与各类球场，该校并参加马来西亚大专院校运动会与东盟大学运动会。
• The university counts more than one hundred thousand graduates, organised through its alumni association, who hold senior positions in Malaysian public life, business and academia.该校拥有逾十万名毕业生，通过校友会组织联络，其中许多人在马来西亚政界、商界与学界担任要职。

Notable people

• Tan Jiak Kim, a Chinese community leader in colonial Singapore, led the 1904 petition that secured the founding of the medical school from which the university descends.殖民时期新加坡的华人社区领袖陈若锦领导了 1904 年的请愿，促成了该校所源出的医学院的创办。
• Sir Alexander Oppenheim, a mathematician, served as the first Vice-Chancellor when the University of Malaya was constituted in 1949.数学家亚历山大·奥本海姆爵士在 1949 年马来亚大学成立时出任首任校长（Vice-Chancellor）。
• Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first prime minister of independent Malaya and Malaysia, was installed as the university's first Chancellor in June 1962.马来亚与马来西亚独立后的首任首相东姑阿都拉曼·布特拉·阿尔哈吉，于 1962 年 6 月就任该校首任校监。
• Mahathir Mohamad, who graduated from the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1953, served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020.1953 年毕业于爱德华七世国王医学院的马哈蒂尔·穆罕默德，分别于 1981 至 2003 年以及 2018 至 2020 年出任马来西亚总理。
• Abdul Razak Hussein, who studied at Raffles College and graduated in 1940, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1970 to 1976 and is regarded as a father of national development.1940 年毕业于莱佛士学院的敦阿都拉萨·胡先，1970 至 1976 年任马来西亚总理，被誉为国家发展之父。
• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a graduate of 1964, served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009, and Anwar Ibrahim, who studied Malay studies, became Prime Minister in 2022.1964 年毕业的阿都拉·艾哈迈德·巴达维于 2003 至 2009 年任马来西亚总理；曾攻读马来研究的安瓦尔·易卜拉欣于 2022 年出任总理。
• Ismail Sabri Yaakob, a law graduate, served as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022.法学专业毕业的伊斯梅尔·萨布里·雅各布，于 2021 至 2022 年出任马来西亚第九任总理。
• Lee Kuan Yew, who studied at Raffles College, became the first Prime Minister of Singapore and governed from 1959 to 1990.曾就读于莱佛士学院的李光耀成为新加坡首任总理，1959 至 1990 年在任。
• Benjamin Henry Sheares, a graduate of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, served as President of Singapore from 1971 to 1981, and Sellapan Ramanathan held the same office from 1999 to 2011.爱德华七世国王医学院毕业生本杰明·亨利·希勒斯于 1971 至 1981 年任新加坡总统；塞拉潘·纳丹于 1999 至 2011 年任同一职务。
• Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the British historian who formulated Parkinson's Law, taught at the University of Malaya during its early years.提出「帕金森定律」的英国历史学家西里尔·诺斯古德·帕金森，曾在该校创办初期任教。
• Goh Keng Swee, an economist who studied at Raffles College in 1939, became a principal architect of Singapore's economic development as a long-serving deputy prime minister.1939 年就读于莱佛士学院的经济学家吴庆瑞，长期担任新加坡副总理，是该国经济发展的重要设计师。