522 Scholars To Be Conferred PhDs At UKM’s 42nd Convocation

THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2014 11:37

By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin
Pix Center for Corporate Communications

BANGI, 30 October 2014 – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) will confer PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) degrees to 522 people at its 42nd convocation this year from this Saturday.

This is the largest number of PhDs to graduate from UKM in a year since its inception.

In addition a total of 2,243 of its students will receive their Masters degrees, also a record for UKM.

All together, a total of 6,266 students are graduating at its 42nd convocation stretched over four days until Tuesday.

Among them are 570 students from the Faculty of Science and Technology – the largest number to graduate from a faculty this year – who will be awarded their Bachelor’s degree.

The Faculty of Islamic Studies will have the second largest number at 528 students for their Bachelor’s degree, followed by the Faculty of Economics and Management with 525 students.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Science will have 408 students graduating Bachelor’s degree while 262 students from the Faculty of Medicine will receive their MD.

The following is the breakdown of the number of graduates according to faculties:

GRADUATES 2014 (As of 23 Oktober 2014)

No

Faculty/Institute

Doctorates

Masters

Diploma

Bachelor’s degree

1

Economy and Management

7

128

525

2

Pharmacy

1

35

92

3

Engineering and Built Environment

71

153

226

4

Education

63

228

116

5

Islamic Studies

30

98

44

528

6

Dentistry

10

42

7

Medicine (Clinical)

180

14

Medicine (Non-Clinical)

29

110

Medicine (MD)

262

Medicine (Nursing )

43

Medicine (Emergency Medicine)

8

Health Sciences

8

89

303

9

Science and Technology

108

353

10

570

10

Social Sciences and Humanities

71

359

408

11

Technology and Science Information

36

109

239

12

Law

15

90

79

13

Graduate School of Business

19

263

14

Institute of Malay World and Civilization (ATMA)

16

7

15

Institute of Environment and Development (LESTARI)

11

8

16

Institute  of Biological  Systems (INBIOSIS)

1

2

17

Institute of  Visual Informatics (IVI)

4

2

18

Institute of Islam Hadhari (HADHARI)

2

1

20

Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA)

3

21

Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS)

6

3

23

Institute Of Climate Change IKP)

2

25

Institute of Micro Engineering and Nano Electronics (IMEN)

7

4

26

Solar Energy and Research Institute (SERI)

8

3

27

Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI)

2

3

29

Institute of Fuel Cell (SELFUEL)

4

3

Total

522

2243

68

3433

6266