OUR HISTORY
How we started?
The desire to develop a university in Sabah implemented on 24 November 1994, when Parliament approved the establishment of Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Initially only three schools namely the School of Science and Technology, School of Business and Technology and School of Social Sciences was established. In addition, there is also a liberal education center called Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language.
When the first academic session begins in mid-1995, there were 205 students who registered. Number of teaching staff of 24 lecturers and administration is managed by 13 management staff, assisted by 26 support staff.
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At present, students of UMS totaled 12350 people, while the number of academic staff of about 570 people.