Foreword
Likewise, our research profile continues to improve. On
the Malaysian Research Assessment (MyRA), based on
the unaudited score, the campus is expected to maintain
a 4-star rating in 2014. Supporting research capacity
building, the campus further enhanced its research
infrastructure, with the opening this year of new world-class
laboratories for medicine, engineering, science and
pharmacy, along with extensive investment in additional
research equipment.
Since the establishment of Monash University Malaysia
sixteen years ago, the campus has evolved into
a fully-fledged comprehensive private university with over
6,700 students from 70 different countries. Students receive
an outstanding Australian university education at Monash
Malaysia, which prepares them to become global citizens
and future leaders in their chosen careers. In 2014, we
graduated 1,190 students and they join our alumni of 9,000
graduates who are employed in Malaysia and around
the world. The campus continued to support two-way
student mobility in 2014, with 236 students taking up
exchange opportunities at Australian campuses or many of
our partner universities.
As Monash’s largest off-shore campus, Monash Malaysia
has established a platform in the region for high quality
research and education in a relatively short period of time.
The quality of teaching and learning, as measured by
the Malaysian Qualification Agency’s SETARA assessment
system, was again ranked as Excellent in 2014. To support
the planned expansion of taught masters programs,
a contemporary teaching and learning facility for graduate
and professional studies was opened and plans to upgrade
the campus learning environment are taking shape.
Our seven schools continued to achieve outstanding results
in 2014. Engineering introduced its civil engineering
program, completing the full suite of engineering disciplines
at Monash Malaysia. Science continued to build its
genomics research platform, opening up this facility to new
industry contacts. Pharmacy obtained full accreditation for
its undergraduate program and was established as a new
school. The School of Business, as part of the wider Faculty
of Business & Economics, received AACSB accreditation,
along with AMBA accreditation for its new MBA program.
Medicine opened its world class anatomy laboratory,
complete with new Smart Tables providing the latest
learning technologies. Information Technology facilitated
the country’s first Intelligent Medicine Symposium in
collaboration with Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart
Institute) and Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (National Innovation
Agency Malaysia). Arts & Social Sciences established
the new General Studies program, successfully integrating it
into the campus.
External engagement continues to be a major focus for
the campus. The growing appeal of our graduates to
industry has resulted in numerous new internship
opportunities being created in 2014, with 750 students
placed in over 250 companies. In addition, there has been
renewed effort to engage with our alumni and build lifelong
relationships that are mutually beneficial. We were delighted
to welcome several prominent alumni onto our School
Advisory Boards in 2014 and to speak at our graduations.
Many examples of how our staff and students are excelling in
research, teaching and industry engagement, can be found
in this review. Thank you to colleagues, students, alumni and
all our stakeholders for contributing towards the success of
Monash Malaysia in 2014. Malaysia will continue to be
a dynamic and competitive transnational higher education
setting in 2015, but with your support we will continue to
make a difference in Malaysia and the region through our
high quality teaching, research and engagement.
Prof Helen Bartlett
President and Pro-Vice Chancellor
Monash University Malaysia
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