IMU is Malaysia’s First & Most Established Private Medical & Health Sciences University with 28 years of dedicated focus in healthcare education. IMU has SETARA-2017 rating of 6 stars (Outstanding) under the Mature University category.
The college was officially launched on 13 April 1992 by the then Education Minister, YB Datuk Amar DrSulaiman Haji Daud, demonstrating the full support of the Malaysian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health.
Since 1993, there have been 32 cohorts of PMS students, totaling 2,519 in number. On 4 February, 1999, IMC was granted university status and became the International Medical University (IMU).
IMU is also pioneering the close integration of Research and Healthcare practice together with Education. Over the years IMU has also established partnerships with leading hospitals in the country to allow its staff and students to get continuous and extensive real-life clinical experience. It also operates its own private clinics.
IMU is a university wholly specializing in medicine, health sciences and complementary medicine programmes which means that all resources are devoted to excellence in this area of education. Comprising of five schools in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the IMU has something to offer everyone interested in pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous learning programmes in the field of healthcare.
IMU pioneered the partner university model. It has established a strong global network with 32 partner institutions of higher learning. These collaborations cover most of the undergraduate programmes offered in IMU. IMU’s diverse partner universities include universities from Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand and United Kingdom.