How it All Started

Positioning itself as the University for the Future, Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) is a premier postgraduate research institution spearheading Malaysia's vision to become a center of academic excellence within the region.

The university started off with collaboration between MUST Ehsan Foundation and the world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), noted for its education and research in advanced science and technology.

The establishment in 2000 was created to be the major research and development institution capable of producing highly skilled human resources to accelerate high technology areas for the country and the region. The move was in line with the government’s call to create credible R&D capabilities, entrepreneurships and producing knowledge workers for the K-economy.

MUST and MIT inspire attitudes of entrepreneurship, analytical thinking, problem solving, creativity, innovation and team building to prepare the right aptitude for graduates of the future.


Preparing Graduates of the Future

MUST is a research-driven post graduate university that is structured to emulate MIT’s style of learning, education and culture with much emphasis on meeting the demand of the industries need and expertise.

MUST is firmly focused on the future and is at the frontier of research in many fields. The university attraction also lies in the quality of courses and teaching that has been carefully designed to meet the industry needs. The university is bolstered with impressive research and teaching laboratories, research opportunities, latest technology facilities and eminent academicians.

The University is setting itself to serve as the nucleus for a high technology research and development infrastructure and to improve the quantity and quality of highly skilled human resources thereby accelerating the development of indigenous technology and enterprise with breaking research.

The uniqueness of the University is its ability to drive the nation’s Human Capital development by delivering courses meeting ‘portfolio’s of different skills and assets’ required by both the industry and government to create a nation of high competitiveness. The holistic approach encompasses the practices and the environment to develop: intellectual capital, skills capital, innovative and entrepreneurship capital, social capital, psychological capital and spiritual capital. The development would craft future knowledge-workers with skills and confidence to be self employed rather than seeking to be employed.

Offering Programmes of Substance

Recently, the university has embarked into undergraduate studies offering a one-year foundation programme designed and conducted for students intending to pursue a bachelor’s degree in engineering, science and technology and biosciences.

The foundation programmes is formulated to ensure students grasp the basic knowledge required before enrolling as students for 12 various Bachelors of Sciences (BSc) programmes.

Among the offered 3-year degree programmes are Agro biotechnology, Nutraceutical and Food Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Nanotechnology and Nanoengineering, Construction Management.

All the programmes are inserted with entrepreneurship and business management skills modules to generate more business minded and creative students as required in the industry.

Career opportunities from the undergraduate programmes varies such as Microbiologist, Geneticist, Biotech Entrepreneur, Forest Product Research Officer, Wildlife Biology Research, Tissue Culturist, Construction Manager Materials analyst, Construction Quality analyst, Environmental Project Officer, Environmental Researcher, Environmentalist, Metallurgical Manager, Patent Attorney, Information Technology Specialist, Telecommunication Manager, Network Manager, Photonics system Manager, Inventory Management.

Creating Top-Notch Leaders in Science & Technology

The University offers 18-month Master of Science degree programmes in 8 varieties of disciplines which are modelled after programmes at the MIT. The programmes are designed for professionals who wish to upgrade their knowledge and professional skills, particularly in developing a capability to conduct research at an advanced level.

The programmes offered are also suitable for recent graduates that are seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills base so as to widen and improve their career choices.

The university has recently introduced the flexi-mode where students can opt for full time, off or on campus. MUST allow the flexibility to students to conduct their research at their work place (labs or etc) or based on their projects. The move is to give recognition of their project work and also continuity for their careers as the projects are incorporated into their semester studies.

Meanwhile the university offers 3 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes namely Biotechnology, Transportation and Logistics, and Informatics to enable students to contribute their research and advancement of knowledge in their chosen field.

The academicians for the postgraduate studies are first class with expertise in biotechnology, material science and engineering, information technology, energy and environment, and transport and logistics and systems engineering and management.

For the MSc programmes, the requirement is an Upper Second Class degree in a relevant field (or an equivalent qualification) from a university of acceptable standing meanwhile for the PhD; a Master of Science degree in a relevant field is needed.

Graduates will be poised for top-notched positions in the academia, the private sector or public agencies sectors such as running and managing technology development, energy/environmental policies, biochemistry, bioinformatics, systems entrepreneur, human genetics, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular medicine.