Universiti Malaya (UM) describes itself as Malaysia’s oldest university. It was founded on 28 September 1905 in Singapore as the King Edward VII College of Medicine and became Universiti Malaya on 8 October 1949 through a merger with Raffles College. Two autonomous divisions, in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, were set up in 1959; after legislation passed in 1961, Universiti Malaya was established on 1 January 1962.
The university occupies a 922-acre (373.12 hectare) campus in the southwest of Kuala Lumpur. Its Vice-Chancellor is Professor Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Noor Azuan Abu Osman, and its Chancellor is Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, the Sultan of Perak. Its pages read for this profile do not state a current student number.