Tunku Abdul Rahman University

The Establishment of UTAR began with the story of Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman (KTAR). In 1964 the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) mooted the idea of setting up a college which was subsequently named after the first Prime Minister of Malaysia. On 15 September 1972, YAB Dato' Hussein Onn, the then Minister of Education handed over the Instrument of Government to the College. A 191-acre piece of land in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur was allocated for the construction of the KTAR Campus. Established in 2002 with 411 students, today, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) offers 110 programmes in fields including Accountancy, Actuarial Science, Agriculture, Arts, Business and Economics, Creative Industries and Design, Engineering and Built Environment, Information and Communication Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Process Management, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Social Science and Education to more than 26,000 students in its nine faculties, three institutes and three centres located in Sungai Long and the main campus in Kampar, which was awarded the Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (Malaysian Institute of Architects) gold award in the education category in 2013. The employability of its 48,000 over graduates exceeds 97 percent within six months after graduation. UTAR's efforts to excel in teaching and research to achieve its vision to be a global university of educational excellence with transformative societal impact have led it to be ranked as one of the top 300 universities in Asia in 2012 and 2013 by QS World University Rankings: Asia.