# Kolej Yayasan UEM

Kolej Yayasan UEM or KYUEM (formerly known as Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad) is a Malaysian private boarding school in Lembah Beringin, Selangor, Malaysia.
It was planned by Tan Sri Halim Saad as Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad (its former name), designed as a residential college modeled after British boarding schools.
It offers an A-Level program under the Cambridge Assessment International Education examination board. It is owned by Yayasan UEM and is a part of the UEM Group.
KYUEM students receive Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards and offers in high ranking universities. The teaching staff consists of Malaysians as well as expatriate faculty.

## Overview

KYUEM boards about 525 students, mostly between the ages of 16 and 20. The college is led by a headmaster, who is appointed by the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees. Each house is overseen by a houseparent, typically selected from the teaching or administrative staff.
Almost all of the school's graduates achieve conditional offers into universities through the UCAS application process, several to Oxford or Cambridge every year and a majority to universities such as University College London, Imperial College London, University of Warwick, London School of Economics, King's College London, University of Edinburgh and The University of Manchester. Some of the graduates studied at universities in the United States such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, and Harvard University.

## Curriculum

In addition to the core A-level subjects, students must take the IELTS as it is an admissions criteria for universities in the United Kingdom.
Most students at the school take four A-level subjects, but many also take three. The A-Level subjects offered are:
* by the Arts Department – Accounting, Economics, English Literature, History, and Geography.
* by the Science Department – Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Marine Science.
* by Mathematics Department – Mathematics and Further Mathematics.

## Facilities

Students either live in one of the 104 houses or villas - 42 for male and 62 for female students; one of the 8 villas - 5 for male and 3 for female students; or the apartments usually housing girls. A new block was completed in July 2006. The second floor of the block is used by the Arts department for classes, whereas the old Arts department classes (on the ground floor of the Academic Block) were converted into science laboratories. The teachers and staff live in apartments provided on-site.
The college has 10 science laboratories, two lecture theaters, three IT laboratories which supply access to the internet connection and air-conditioned classes. Initially, there was only one academic block, with only eight science laboratories. However, a new block was added in 2006, and the non-laboratory classes on the ground floor were renovated to become two science laboratories.
The college has an Olympic-size swimming pool, a football field, two basketball courts, two tennis courts, two volleyball courts, and a multipurpose hall for squash, futsal badminton, or a basketball court (not simultaneously).
Students at KYUEM are sorted into four houses: Diamond, Garnet, Sapphire and Topaz.