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Universiti Teknologi MARA

Shah Alam, Italy

Universiti Teknologi MARA

The MARA University of Technology or informally the MARA Technological University (Malay: Universiti Teknologi MARA, abbr. UiTM) is a Malaysian public university based primarily in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was established to help rural Malays in 1956 as the Rural & Industrial Development Authority (R

IDA) Training Centre (Malay: Dewan Latihan RIDA), and opened with around 50 students. It has since grown into the largest institution of higher education in Malaysia as measured by physical infrastructure, faculty and staff, and student enrollment. Since becoming a public university despite its name, UiTM is no longer affiliated with Majlis Amanah Rakyat, although it continues to only accept bumiputera students. The university comprises one main campus and 34 satellite campuses. It offers over 500 programmes taught in English that range from undergraduate to the postgraduate level. The school is home to some 170,514 full-time and part-time bumiputera and international students. UiTM is one of the only two public universities in Malaysia to have English as the official language of instruction and administration, the other being International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). In 2019, UiTM...

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