Honing creative young talents
THINKING of a career in the creative arts? Equipping yourself with professional creative competencies calls for compelling learning experiences that enhance your natural flair or coax your latent talent.
With over 20 dedicated programmes, Management and Science University (MSU) presents 17 ways to feed your creativity.
Ever dreamt of rocking the couture world as a fashion designer, jeweller or hair stylist? Look to the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts. Choose from bachelor programmes in fashion design and accessory design or a diploma programme in hairdressing.
Alternatively, take to culinary creativity with bachelor and diploma programmes in culinary arts and patisserie arts.
If engineering, technology and computing are your interests, choose from a range of programmes offered at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, such as the new diploma in interior design.
However, not much gets done without tools, as everything in the world needs to be designed first. Up for transforming the world? Look to industrial design and enrich your future with the new bachelor in product design programme.
Alternatively, there are bachelor and diploma programmes in game design and animation, as well as another new bachelor programme in music composition and arranging.
Bachelor programmes in creative multimedia, instructional multimedia, new media and visual communication and marketing are also offered along with a diploma programme in graphic design.
For those who are keen on guiding and developing young artists in the appropriations of aesthetics, the Bachelor in Education (Visual Arts) programme equips students with everything they need to know to teach visual arts.
Visual arts is also offered as a foundation programme at MSU, but students seeking bigger challenges in graphic design, digital design, creative multimedia design, video/ audio production, animation and photography may want to enquire about the new Master of Design programme at the School of Graduate Studies.
MSU is one of Malaysia’s top universities with a focus on developing and delivering quality human capital in national and global criticalneed areas, among them medicine, health sciences, pharmacy, information sciences and engineering, business management and orofessional studies, education and social sciences, hospitality and culinary arts, music and fashion.
MSU has been accorded “Excellent Status University” under the national university rating system Setara and The Most Entrepreneurial Private University 2016, both by the Ministry of Higher Education.
More recent recognitions include the Putra Brand Awards 2017 and the Best Brand in Education for Leadership and Human Capital Development 2017.
For its teaching, facilities, graduate employability, social responsibility, and inclusiveness, MSU has a fivestar rating under the QS World Universities Rating System.
MSU is also ranked 217th among the top 1.8% of the best universities in the QS Asia Ranking 2018.
As one of Malaysia’s top teaching and learning universities, MSU places priority on building both students and faculty, as well as enhancing graduate employability.
Engaging highly qualified academics and international visiting professors, the university delivers compelling learning experiences within the framework of a holistic curriculum.
A tracer study by the Ministry of Higher Education shows that 98.5% of MSU graduates successfully secure employment within six months of graduation, simultaneously awarding MSU the top spot in the graduate employability register among the nation’s higher education institutions.