UCSI University
private university in Malaysia
UCSI University, originally University College Sedaya International (UCSI), is a private university in Malaysia. The university is accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC), the Malaysian Nursing Board (MNB), and several other professional bodies.
Currently, all UCSI University's programmes have received a 100% employability score from the Malaysian Higher Education Ministry's Graduate Employability 2021-2022 survey.
UCSI University provides academic programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These include programs in business, engineering, architecture, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, tourism, applied science, music, and social science.
Aligning to Malaysia's national aspiration through the National Principles or Rukun Negara coined in August 1970, the university attributes its commitment and achievement in fulfilling these four principles to its founding pillar, "Glory to God". The university also pledges to align the implementation of these principles to UN Global Goal's theme, "Leave No One Behind", fitting to one of its core values, "Compassion" represented by the letter "C" in its acronym
"UCSI" (Universalism, Compassion, Sustainability and Integrity).
These principles are to be lived out and strategically implemented corporately by all staff and students consistent to UCSI Group's sustainability theme, "Together we shape the future".
History
UCSI was founded in 1986 by Dato' Peter Ng as a computer-training institute in Petaling Jaya. It soon relocated to new premises in Kuala Lumpur to cater to growing student numbers and more academic programmes were offered.
“UCSI University” enters the record as private university in Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what UCSI, University and private can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7864125. VIAF identifies the subject as 5528147425862245040008. The Library of Congress control number is n2016228237. Authority coordinates are 3.080, 101.733. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2022, 1970 and 1986.
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