Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has thrice won the National Intellectual Property Award for the year 2006, 2009 and 2010. Well-known for being a innovation-driven research intensive university in engineering, science and technology, UTM's main campus located in Johor Bahru, southern tip of peninsular Malaysia. It also has a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur. With largest number of postgraduate students in science & technology in 2011, UTM is a government-owned university. It was established as a technical school in 1904 and became a full-fledged university in 1975. Today, the university has 6,500 students pursuing Master programmes and 3,700 students pursing PhD programmes. 45 percent or 4,500 postgraduate students hail from about 60 countries.
Today, UTM is a leading global university in Malaysia. Since the university focuses on graduate studies, it offers more innovative research based postgraduate programmes and varied modes of PhD programmes such as PhD by Publication, Industry-based Doctoral Degrees, PhD by Fast Track and Double/Dual Doctoral Degrees.
Hence, the postgraduate studies at UTM offers flexibility as well as better opportunities to contribute to publications and citations, while enhancing technological development and value -driven economy.
