Universiti Sains Malaysia

No.Service Science, Management and Engineering (M), International Business (M)

The School had recognised the influence of the business community to address the world’s most critical environmental,economic and social problems. Hence, the School aims to be a reputable business school which emphasise on the sustainability value for sustainable tomorrow. This aspiration includes becoming center of academic excellence, providing teaching and supervision of the highest quality and a leader in the business training. The School hopes to be at the forefront and recognized globally as a center that produces first class business leader with sustainability value.

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School was formally approved by the Ministry of Higher Education in November 2009. Over a period of 25 years, it has evolved from a minor at the School of Social Sciences to a major at the School of Management before establishing itself in its own right as a Graduate School of Business. Since 1989, School of Management at the University has been offering management and accounting programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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International Business, Service Science Management and Engineering, Sustainable Development

Online MBA program (OMBA) was established in 2006 and offers the same curriculum as the regular MBA but is further enriched with an interactive web-based platform, e-resource, and virtual communications via e-tutorials/forums. This program offers competitive fees, learner-controlled study time, place and space, course-mix flexibility, 24/7 availability, and a user-friendly interface. Due to its student-centred and holistic learning approach and blended, innovative and interactive teaching mode, the program is steadily attracting candidates from industry.

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The MBA (General) program was established in 1992 and within a short period of time has managed to gain a reputation of excellence in business and management education. Due to its student-centered and holistic learning approach, and innovative and interactive teaching methodology, the program continues to attract students with a high potential of reaching academic excellence from many nationalities and diverse industry experience. The program aims to provide graduates who are able to think critically, ethically and perform systematic analysis of complex problems.

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Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia; Binus University, Indonesia; Lahore University of Management, Pakistan; Memorial University, Canada; Keele University, Stafforshire, UK

Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy by Research Programmes

With regards to teaching and learning, the school focuses on embedding innovative teaching and learning that exposes students to the real life experiences via problem-based teaching, case-based teaching, projects, Ideas Drill exercises and business simulation games. In addition, the curriculum has been sructured to integrate the elements of entrepreneurship and sustainability in each course for holistic excellence in management education. The school collaborates with various MNCs around Penang such DELL, INTEL, MOTOROLA and also with government agencies including SME CorP.

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As for research, the school has structured its research cluster into 7 different areas including Enterprise Management Control, Operations Management, Human Capital Development, Technology Management, Financial Market Based Research, International Finance and Inclusive Entrepreneuship. This streamlining has managed to attract Masters and PhD students from various parts of the world to embark on their research works. A total of 80% of the faculty members are active in PhD and Masters supervision.

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Accounting, Organisational Behaviour, Finance/Islamic Finance

The Bachelor of Management degree offered by USM is unique in the sense that it adopts a "multidisciplinary" approach by incorporating minor programmes where students are able to enrol in either Sciences or Arts minor programme of their choice. This is to allow students to be exposed to various disciplines that are outside Management mainstream. The programme embeds innovative teaching (i.e., problem-based, case-based teaching, project base, simulation) in its curriculum to prepare students to be holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced graduates.

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1. Pusan National University, Korea 2. City University, Hong Kong 3. Ritsumeiken University, Japan 4. University of British Columbia, Canada 5. Hannam University, Korea

The strength of the Bachelor of Accounting degree lies in its professional accreditations by 7 international bodies including CPA, MIA, MICPA, ICAEW, ACCA, and CIMA. With this accreditations, Accounting students of USM are eligible to obtain a maximum exemptions allowed by the above-mentioned professional accrediation bodies. Students are made compulsory to fulfill 9 units of internship at selected Audit firms for a period of 6 months. In order to furnish students with the real worklife experience, industry visits are organised on a regularly basis to top notch companies.

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1. Pusan National University, Korea 2. City University, Hong Kong 3. Ritsumeiken University, Japan 4. University of British Columbia, Canada 5. Hannam University, Korea

Masters and PhD programmes offered by the School of Management focus on multidisciplinary approach within Management subject matter. In order to foster and encourage transdiciplinary research, the school has streamlined its research endeavour into 7 specific research clusters including Enterprise Management Control, Operations Management, Human Capital Development, Technology Management, FInancial Market Based Research, International Finance and Inclusive Entrepreneuship.

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The mission of the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia is to provide education and research that are of high quality so as to produce chemical engineering graduates who would be well-trained in chemical engineering knowledge in addition to developing their personal potential, abilities and skills in critical and innovative thinking, problem solving and life-long learning. The School aims to produce graduates who would become leaders and/or entrepreneurs in the current global society and be able to meet technological and societal expectations.

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To provide opportunities for the pursuit of knowledge and expertise for the advancement of engineering, science and technology in nation’s building and its progress. To nurture creativity, innovativeness, competativeness and expand the frontiers of technolgy, education and research for the betterment of the society. To produce well trained graduates who are innovative and analytical in their thinking to become leaders of the industry and contribute to the research in the industrial growth

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Process Control, Bioprocess Engineering and Environmental Processes, Separation Processes and Catalysis

The Chemical Engineering curriculum is developed in accordance with the requirements and guidelines provided by the Engineering Accreditation Council (AEC) under the Board of Engineers, Malaysia. The school offers a 4-year program to the level of the award of the Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) with Honours leading to the following specialized fields : Separation Process Engineering and Catalysis Process Control Engineering Bio-process Engineering and Environment

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University of New South Wales, South Australia

The School has MSc programme (by research) that provides postgraduate research opportunities in topics across the broad spectrum of chemical engineering. It has regularly attracted research students from academia, industries, research institutions and governmental departments either locally or abroad. The program leads to Master of Science (MSc.)degree in Chemical Engineering. The programme is run by highly qualified and experienced academicians who have high level of technical expertise in their respective fields.

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As a programe that produces future professionals, our program has been accredited by the Malaysian Board of Engineers. This, and with the quality training given, our civil engineering program has produced well sought after civil engineers not only from Malaysian industries but also by foreign companies, in both consultancy and construction fields. Our students are also in the government sectors and are directly helping nations development and sustainability.

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Our research work is well recognized by parties that will benefit from its findings.Be it the journal publishers, the relevant civil engineering industries,the authorities&policy makers,&fellow researchers.The faculty reserch work provides a nice blend of publications,consultancy,actual problem solving opportunities as well as direct community adoption&implementation for direct impact.Our niche covers the area of disaster management&resilience, innovative materias & sustainable infrastructure, waste management, sustainability of resources & sustainability of roads& mobility

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Structural Engineering and Advanced Materials, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability, Sustainable Infrastructure and Systems

The Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) (Honours) subscribes to the Outcome-based education and has we accredited by the Board of Engineers of Malaysia, who is also a Washington Accord signatory. The curriculum has been designed to cover the essentials to be a competent civil engineer, with several elective courses planned to provide specialisation in dedicated areas of civil engineering. The programme emphasises on design and as a result many of our graduates are well recognized for their design capabilities.

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This is program by research, and with a faculty that are accomplished researchers, the students benefit immensely from the quality research work in this school.

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This program is a mixed mode program and blends the advanced knowledge in environmental engineering with an extra emphasis on good research work. A combination of theory and laboraroty makes the lecture part of the course. The research work done in the dissertation component has produced good publication in reputable journals. This program also allows non engineers to be trained as environmental engineers.

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This program is a mixed mode program and blends the advanced knowledge in structural engineering with an extra emphasis on good research work. The research work done in the dissertation component has produced good publication in reputable journals.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),Information Technology Technopreneurship (M)

The Bachelor of Computer Science encompasses all aspects of computing as a discipline. The programme covers theoretical and scientific foundations as well as various extensive applications in industry and commerce. The curriculum of the programme emphasizes problem-based learning concepts in particular through practical/project/training-based courses that are integrated throughout the years, and emphasises as well as inculcates a research orientation to the students.

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The research groups at School of Computer Sciences now are divided into 3 main clusters:- (i) Enabling Technologies & Infrastructure;Enabling Technologies & Infrastructure Cluster consists of four research groups, High Performance Computing (HPC), Network Research Group (NRG), Grid Computing Research Group and Security Research Group (SRG).(ii) Data-to-knowledge Cluster (DTKC); The research in this cluster encompasses various stages of data-to-knowledge process pipeline that includes three phases: Data Processing; Analysis, Knowledge Extraction, Knowledge Representation.

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Information Systems Engineering, Network Computing, Multimedia Computing

Computer Science at USM began with a course in programming in 1974. It has since developed into a specialisation in Computer Science under the Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) honours degree, and eventually the Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) (B.Sc. (Comp.Sc.)) degree with honours was offered. Beginning in the 1983/84 session, after a complete revamp of the curriculum, the Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Comp.Sc.) degree with honours was offered to replace the B.Sc. (Comp.Sc.) degree.

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1. Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT), Japan 2. Japan Advanced Institut of Science and Technology (IAIST), Japan

This programme was first introduced as a coursework programme in the 1996/1997 academic session. Over the years, the programme has gained popularity. Due to changes in demand, the curriculum has been suitably revised in the 2001/2002 academic year and subsequently in the 2007/2008 academic year, where the programme is offered as a mixed mode programme.

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The objectives of this programme are to develop and produce graduates with an in-depth understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of informatics and of their inter-relationships; to produce graduates who are equipped with knowledge and skill in scientific, engineering and advance analysis of ICT which can be applied in jobs across various fields/sectors especially in business, technopreneurship and biomedical sectors; and to produce more ICT power users in various industrial fields such as biomedical, healthcare, marketing, business and others.

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