THE UNIVERSITY
In 1994, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), established the Institute of Telecommunication and
Information Technology (ITTM) inTaiping, Perak. The first campus was established on TM’s former
northern region office where the first batch of 42 students were selected to undergo an experimental
2-year telecommunication engineering diploma program. In 1996, with the academic success of the
first two batches, TM was invited by the Ministry of Education the set up the first private university in
Malaysia. ITTM was granted university status and renamed itself to Universiti Telekom.
In 1997, The Melaka campus was set up in the Ayer Keroh district. The setting up of the campus
involved converting an old building belonging to TM‘s southern region office.
TM was offered by the Government of Malaysia to establish a university in MSC Malaysia, then
known as Multimedia Super Corridor, to catalyst the MSC program. A campus was set up in
Cyberjaya and opened on 8 July 1999. The relationship between the Cyberjaya campus and the
MSC is intended to be similar to the relationship between Stanford University and Silicon
Valley.[7] The university was renamed from Universiti Telekom to Multimedia University.
In 2013, MMU established a third campus in Iskandar Puteri, Johor specialising in cinematic arts in
collaboration with the renowned University of Southern California.
Multimedia University (MMU), a tertiary education institution set up through Universiti Telekom Sdn Bhd (UTSB), a
wholly owned subsidiary of TM, fulfils the noblest of corporate social responsibilities – taking up the challenge of
educating the next generation the nation’s leaders and knowledge workers. As the first private university in Malaysia,
