UM Discovery

        Universiti Malaya, or UM, Malaysia's oldest university, is situated on a 922 acre (373.12 hectare) campus in the southwest of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
        It was founded on 28 September 1905 in Singapore as the King Edward VII College of Medicine and on 8th October 1949, it became the Universiti Malaya with the merger of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College (founded in 1928).
        The Universiti Malaya derives its name from the term 'Malaya' as the country was then known. The Carr-Saunders Commission on University Education in Malaya, which recommended the setting up of the university, noted in its Report in 1948: "The Universiti Malaya would provide for the first time a common centre where varieties of race, religion and economic interest could mingle in joint endeavour ... For a Universiti Malaya must inevitably realise that it is a university for Malaya."
        The growth of the University was very rapid during the first decade of its establishment and this resulted in the setting up of two autonomous Divisions on 15 January 1959, one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur. In 1960, the government of the two territories indicated their desire to change the status of the Divisions into that of a national university. Legislation was passed in 1961 and the Universiti Malaya was established on 1st January 1962.
        On June 16th 1962, Universiti Malaya celebrated the installation of its first Chancellor, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, who was also the country's first prime minister. The first Vice-Chancellor was Professor Oppenheim, a world-renowned Mathematician.
        Currently, His Royal Highness The Sultan of Perak Darul Ridzuan, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah is the Chancellor of UM.

The University of Malaya Orientation is usually held within a week before the start of classes (Orientation Week), and will be notified by email. The Orientation is usually held in the lecture theatre of the faculty, and will start with a faculty-wide Orientation. If the Orientation is in the morning, the faculty will also prepare breakfast for the new students (usually sandwiches and noodles), and at noon, they will prepare a lunch for new students with a lunchbox and a box of beverages, which varies from faculty to faculty. After the orientation session, a senior student will take you to the lunch queue, and then you will go to another classroom according to your major, where you will meet the tutors of your professor and get their contact information. Before the orientation, there will be gifts for new students, and the gifts for each faculty are different every year, so it is important to attend the orientation. Undergraduates will be given a college shirt (baseball jersey), which is different from the Chinese school uniform and has the University of Malaya logo on it. If you want the same baseball shirt for postgraduate entry, don't worry, you can get it at the University of Malaya souvenir shop.