Quality postgraduate degrees
A UNIVERSITY of educational excellence with transformative societal impact, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) offers a range of postgraduate degrees.
With the aim to promote lifelong learning opportunities, UTAR’S Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FAS) offers three postgraduate programmes – Master of Philosophy (Social Science), Master of Psychology (Industrial Organisational Psychology) and Doctor of Philosophy (Social Science), which may be completed by coursework or research or a combination of both.
Master of Psychology (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
The Master of Psychology (Industrial and Organisational Psychology) is one of the most important and unique components in UTAR’S Industrial and Organisational Psychology programme.
Master of Psychology (Industrial Organisational Psychology) programme head Dr Lee Ai-suan said, “The programme aims to educate potential candidates with the necessary expertise to carry out high-level research to overcome challenges faced by employees and organisations.
“Students are also trained with in-demand skills to become professional industrial organisational psychologists qualified to work in the human resource, management consulting and training fields.”
Master of Philosophy (Social Science)
The Master of Philosophy (Social Science) ensures students are analytical in thinking, knowledgeable in their respective field of specialisation, possess the skills and understanding to keep abreast of future developments in their field and in technology and are well-versed in the practical application of their expertise.
Master of Philosophy (Social Science) programme head Foong Soon Seng said, “The programme caters to students across a diverse range of disciplines in humanities and social sciences. As such, students’ researches often develop interdisciplinary perspectives.”
“The programme also contributes to students’ capacity to organise ideas and issues, deal with questions of value and extract the essential from masses of information. In addition, it emphasises a clear formulation of ideas and problems, selection of relevant data and objective methods for assessing ideas and proposals.
“It also emphasises the development of a sense of new directions suggested by the hypotheses and questions one encounters in doing research. The specialised master’s degree is necessary for students to stay competitive in their workplace.”
Doctor of Philosophy Social Science The Doctor of Philosophy Social Science aims to prepare candidates with intellectual background and research skills towards the advancement of knowledge and development of new ideas, theories and insights in the area of Arts and Social Science.
Doctor of Philosophy (Social Science) programme head Dr Gerard Sagaya Raj explained, “Students have a choice of doing the programme full-time or part-time. The duration for the full-time programme is three to six years while part-time takes four to eight years. Working students are encouraged to enrol for the part-time programme as it gives them flexibility. Graduates are prepared for a wide range of career choices around the world in industry, government agencies and academia.”
UTAR is highly reputed as one of the fastest growing private higher education institutions in the country since its inception in 2002.
It currently offers over 110 programmes from foundation studies to bachelor’s, master’s and PHD degrees in various fields.
UTAR was awarded self-accreditation status by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency of the Ministry of Higher Education in 2017 and ranked 501-600 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2019.
UTAR was also ranked No.111-120 in the 2019 THE Asia-pacific University Rankings.
■ For more details, go to www.utar.edu.my or call 05-468 8888 (Kampar Campus) or 03-9086 0288 (Sungai Long Campus).
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