A QS five-star rating for MSU
HIGHER education remains a lever for personal growth and the most effective route to economic and social success. With the dawn of a new era in which knowledge is a currency, higher education has become a requisite choice for onward and upward mobility. Choosing what to study and where, however, is increasingly difficult, given the vast opportunities available as the world turns into a global village. A globally accepted system that evaluates institutions of higher education and rates them on a scale of 1 to 5 is the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Stars.
While rating Management & Science University (MSU) across its strengths, QS discovered a socially responsible, environmentally conscious university seeking to catalyse quality human capital development for society’s betterment and progress. The university is an ecosystem of talent, enterprise, industry, technology, innovation and academe, home to dedicated faculty and staff.
The QS 2016 data compilation found MSU deserving the
QS 5 Stars rating for excellent teaching, facilities, graduate employability, social responsibility and inclusiveness.
Students’ overall satisfaction with the university and its teaching, measured by the number of students that stay to finish their studies and the number that move on to higher studies contributed to its 5 Stars for teaching.
Scoring 5 Stars for facilities are the university’s sporting, medical, eateries and commercial outlets, which are platforms for students’ entrepreneurial activities and library facilities.
The MSU campus is 100% WiFi-connected and is disabled friendly. Its learning environment is enhanced by a myriad of student clubs and associations supporting the MSU curriculum of compelling learning experiences.
Employers tend to favour MSU graduates and 98.6% of them secure employment within six months of graduation. The figure is not only a nationwide high but also surpasses QS’s specified 12 months, simultaneously clinching MSU its 5 Stars for graduate employability.
The level of community investment and development, charity work and disaster relief, regional human capital development and environmental conservation efforts by MSU merited the varsity its 5 Stars for social responsibility.
Scholarships and sponsorships by the university are provided by the MSU Foundation, which also manages the Darul Sakinah, an MSU home for orphans.
Embedded in the multicultural diversity of the MSU community is a vibrant, engaging, stimulating culture of inclusivity giving weight to its 5 Stars for inclusiveness.
Efforts by the university to ensure no dream gets left behind translate into connected entry pathways that ensure access to an MSU education is open to all who seek to benefit from it including the disabled and underprivileged. The university even reaches out to rural communities to inform their young about higher education opportunities. The QS ratings add to a string of accolades to MSU, including the first nonJapanese university accredited by the Alliance on Business Education and Scholarship for Tomorrow (ABEST21) and Top Two Private Universities in Entrepreneurship. MSU has also been twice accorded ExcellentStatus University by the Higher Education Ministry in Malaysia.
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