page_title: Universiti Sains Malaysia
section_title: Graduate studies
hierarchical_section_title: Universiti Sains Malaysia / Education / Graduate studies
context_page_description: Universiti Sains Malaysia is a university in Malaysia. Founded on 1 June 1969 as a statutory body with its own constitution, it is among the oldest institutes of higher learning in Northern Malaysia. It has three campuses: a main campus on the island of Penang, a health campus in Kelantan, and an engineering campus in Nibong Tebal. There is currently an overseas collaboration with KLE University, India offering the Doctor of Medicine undergraduate degree. USM plans to open a Global Campus in Kuala Lumpur Education City.
  With around 28,300 postgraduate and undergraduate students in 2009, USM is one of the largest universities in terms of enrollment in Malaysia. The number of lecturers is about 1,479, which leads to a student-lecturer ratio of around 19:1.
  USM is the only Accelerated Programs for Excellence government-funded autonomous university in Malaysia.
context_section_description: USM offers three modes of study for the graduate programmes, i.e., by research, by a combination of coursework and research (mixed mode), or by coursework. In 2009, there were 9,011 students in the master's and doctoral level programmes with 24.9% of them  nationals from more than 40 countries. The majority of the foreign students are from other parts of Southeast Asia as well as the Middle East.
caption: The international office of USM now known as International Mobility & Collaboration Centre or IMCC
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