Objective of USM Global Campus

The idea of USM Global Campus, also fondly known as the Global Campus, was born due to the rapid change of education landscape in Malaysia.

The Higher Education is changing in the global view – demands for world-class education is growing especially in the Asia Pacific region, costs of education is increasing, and costs of providing education is also beginning to impact institutions of higher learning. Establishing new campuses requires huge amount of capital expenditure. Public or government-funded universities cannot continue to fund its operations, expansion and research with grants from the government, and would require new income generating streams. Education cities are solutions to these new issues related to higher education – sharing of services and reduction of capital expenditure, connected communities with international experience that benefits the community of students and teaching faculty, entry into bigger markets with lower financial risks.

The main objective of the Global Campus is to attract world-class international partners with the clusters acting as both academic and research collaboration platform offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a non-competitive environment, with potential mutual recognition and synergistic collaboration in programme delivery and research partnerships. The scope of international collaboration encompasses joint-academic programmes, faculty exchange, sharing of resources to be promoted to all cluster anchor institutions as well as potential research collaboration with other cluster anchors. The cluster collaboration is aimed at creating an immersed academic and research-intense ecosystem with dynamic relationships that bring together the strengths of each anchor cluster institution (local and international), leveraging on each others brand and collectively, promoting a common global brand that is the cornerstone of an education hub for the region.

Having our vision and the Government's ambition in mind, the KLEC team is working hard, striving towards achieving these goals. We are proud to say that the project is picking up its pace and moving closer to realizing our aims :)