 the international medical university (imu) is a private english language university in kuala lumpur, malaysia, and malaysia's leading private medical and healthcare university. it was established in 1992, and is active in research and teaching within medicine and healthcare with a strong international orientation. imu is operated by the company imu health, a subsidiary of ihh healthcare, which also owns the singapore-based company parkway pantai, southeast asia's largest private healthcare provider. the largest shareholder of ihh healthcare is khazanah nasional, the sovereign wealth fund of the government of malaysia, followed by mitsui and citigroup. over the last two decades, imu has grown from a medical college with 5 partner universities in 1992, to an internationally recognized higher education institution with more than 30 world class university partners in australia, new zealand, canada, us, ireland, china and uk. it was the first private higher education institution in malaysia that received the right to confer academic degrees,towards coherent policy frameworks, p. 164, united nations publications, 2007 and received full university status in 2001.internationalisation and trade in higher education: opportunities and challenges, oecd, p. 181, 2004, isbn 9264015043 the main campus of imu is located in bukit jalil, kuala lumpur.bukit jalil, kuala lumpur currently, the university has over 3,300 students across its various programmes, w
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