Feed your creativity
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 hairstylist? Join the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA) and take your pick from the wide range of bachelor’s degree programmes such as fashion design and accessories design or the diploma programme in hairdressing.
Alternatively, take to the professional kitchen and feed the fashionable crowd with the bachelor and diploma programmes in culinary arts and patisserie arts.
Are engineering, technology and computing more of your passion? Choose from the programmes offered at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE).
There is also the new Diploma in Interior Design to help you land a job in assisting interior designers. But not much gets done without tools, as everything needs to be designed first. Look to industrial design with the Bachelor in Product Design programme.
Are games and animation up your alley? Go for bachelor and diploma programmes in games design and animation or try scoring the next big movie with another new bachelor programme in music composition and arranging.
There are also bachelor prog rammes in creative multimedia, instructional multimedia, new media and visual communication and marketing, along with a diploma programme in graphic design.
Have a love of guiding and developing young artists in the appropriations of aesthetics? Equip yourself to teach the visual arts with the Bachelor in Education (Visual Arts) programme.
Visual arts is also offered as a foundation programme at MSU, but if you are looking to meet higher challenges in graphic design, digital design, creative multimedia design, video/audio production, animation and photography with the power of a master’s knowledge and skills, you may want to enquire about the new Master of Design programme at the Postgraduate Centre.
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 these areas are medicine, health sciences, pharmacy, information sciences, and engineering, business management and professional studies, education and social sciences, hospitality, culinary arts, music and fashion.
Its academic programmes meet the stringent standards of local and international bodies. MSU’s accreditors include the Malaysian Qualifications Agency, the United Kingdom’s Accreditation Services for International Colleges and Japan’s Alliance on Business Education and Scholarship for Tomorrow.
MSU is a Tier5 Excellent Univer sity under the Setara rating system of the Ministry of Higher Education, which also awarded MSU with the Most Entrepreneurial Private University 2016 title.
MSU’s more recent recognitions include the Putra Brand Awards 2017 and Best Brand in Education for Leadership and Human Capital Development 2017.
For its teaching, facilities, graduate employability, social responsibility, and inclusiveness, MSU is rated five stars in the QS World Universities Rating System. MSU entered the QS World Universities Rankings placing 217th among the top 1.8% of the best universities in QS Asia Rankings 2018.
Blending technical vocational education and training with traditional academic curricula, MSU enhances competencies with industry internship, community and creative entrepreneurship, as well as global exposure.
A tracer study by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education shows that 98% of MSU graduates secure employment within six months of graduation.
MSU comprises the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies, Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, International Medical School, School of Pharmacy, School of Education and Social Sciences, School of Hospitality and Creative Arts, Postgraduate Centre and the Centre for Fundamental Studies.
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