DPM announces new IIUM campus in Johor - Friday September 24, 2010

Another campus: Muhyiddin announcing the new IIUM campus in Pagoh, Johor, at the university’s open house in Gombak Thursday. – M. AZHAR ARIF/The Star

GOMBAK: International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) will have a new campus in Pagoh, Johor. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin made the announcement during the university’s Hari Raya gathering at its main campus here yesterday.
The university’s main campus is in Gombak, while it has two branches in Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur.
Muhyiddin, who is also the Education Minister, said the Government would support the move as the university had become an internationally renowned institution of higher learning.
“To me, I see no reason why IIUM cannot spread its wings to another state. I am therefore pleased to note that IIUM will soon be opening up another campus in my constituency, Pagoh,” he said.
Muhyiddin said he hoped the new campus will start its courses by 2012, adding that efforts were being made to set up a Pagoh Educational Hub, in which IIUM would be an integral partner in the initiative.
The university would also look into offering engineering courses’
It was learnt that IIUM’s Faculty of Modern Languages and Faculty of Agriculture are considering offering courses at the new campus.
Muhyiddin later met the university’s student leaders and handed out Hari Raya donations to 40 orphans from Asrama Damai Anak Yatim from Kuang, Selangor.
IIUM has about 22,000 students, of which 4,600 are international students from 90 countries.
IIUM recently attained the Tier 5 or “Excellent” status in the 2009 Malaysian Qualification Agency’s Rating System for Malaysian Education Institutions exercise.
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