- Sunway University

The experienced, highly qualified and dedicated academics of Sunway University is led by an innovative International Vice-Chancellor, supported by a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academics and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Higher Degrees. The heads of programmes and academic staff comprise of professors, associate professors, post-doctorate level lecturers and instructors with years of academic and industry experience in their fields of expertise.

The academic schools represent the top layer in the University’s overall academic structure representing the major subject areas in which the University operates. Each school consists of several departments and research centres with a narrower discipline focus or specific research focus. Some of the research centres are joint centres with other overseas universities. The academic programmes are taught by the academic staff within the departments including teaching fellows, lecturers and professors. More than half of the academic staff hold PhD degrees, one of the highest rates for private universities in the country. Each school is led by a dean who has overall responsibility for the management of the school. As a university with a strong international outlook, our deans are always appointed following an international search in order to find the very best candidates and currently more than half of the deans are from overseas.

Research is the life blood of any excellent university and Sunway University is passionate about the research activities. The research enables Sunway University to contribute to the economic and social development of the nation and ensures that the academic staff keep abreast of the latest developments in their fields and also use their research to inform their teaching. It is a pride the advances Sunway University staff are making in research across a broad range of fields such as developing gene therapies for cancer treatments, developing nanotechnology and new materials for energy efficiency, developing effective carbon capture techniques to combat global warming, or identifying ways to improve the health and well-being of the world’s ageing populations, to name just a few of the fields of our research endeavours. Here at Sunway University, it has a number of research collaborations with leading international universities including joint research centres.

Sunway University has received recognition placing it on a par with long established international institutions. The QS World university ranking and rating organisation, regarded as one of the most authoritative of its kind in the world, awarded Sunway University an overall 5 stars. The University is relatively young by global standards, but is already ranked within the top 2% of universities in the world (QS World University Rankings), and in the top 1.5% of universities in Asia, as well as being ranked within the top 150 universities in the world under 50 years old.

The QS Stars ratings focus on areas such as teaching and employability. Sunway University has been rated 5 Stars in these categories: employability, facilities, inclusiveness, social responsibility and teaching. In the QS Asia Rankings 2021, the University moved up to position 172 out of more than 13,000 higher education institutions in Asia.

Sunway College Ipoh
Address:
No.1-11, Persiaran SCI 2/2,
Sunway City Ipoh
31150 Ipoh
Perak Darul Ridzuan
Malaysia
Website: https://sunway.edu.my/ipoh/
Phone: 605-5454398

Sunway College Johor Bahru
Address:
No. 3, Jln. Austin Heights Utama
Taman Mount Austin
81100 Johor Bahru
Johor Darul Takzim
Malaysia
Website: https://sunway.edu.my/jb/
Phone: +607-359 6880

Sunway College KL
Address:
No. 2, Jalan Universiti,
Bandar Sunway
47500 Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Malaysia
Website: https://college.sunway.edu.my
Phone: +603 5638 7176, +603 7491 8622

Sunway College Kuching
Address:
No.1, Song Plaza(1st Floor),
Lot 12168, Block 16, KCLD, Jalan Tun Jugah,
93350 Kuching
Sarawak
Malaysia
Website: http://www.swck.edu.my/
Phone: 082-451 221
Fax: (6082) 461 226(6082) 574 227 (Marketing)