On 28 and 29 September, Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) held the five ceremonies of its Sixth Convocation for the graduating class of 2024, with more than 2,900 students, parents, faculty members and guests attending.

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The Convocation Ceremonies was held in XMUM Auditorium.

President of Board of Engineers Malaysia, YBhg. Datuk Ir. Ahmad Redza bin Ghulam Rasool, and Chargés d'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia, Mr. Zheng Xuefang attended the First Ceremony as the Guests of Honour, while Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting, Guest Professor of Xiamen University, is the Guest of Honour for the Second Ceremony. Xiamen Univesity President Prof. Zhang Zongyi came all the way from China to award the degrees to the graduands. Prof. Wang Ruifang, President of Xiamen University Malaysia, also took part in this joyous celebration.

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President of Board of Engineers Malaysia, YBhg. Datuk Ir. Ahmad Redza bin Ghulam Rasool

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Chargés d'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia, Mr. Zheng Xuefang

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Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting, Guest Professor of Xiamen University

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Xiamen Univesity President Prof. Zhang Zongyi

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Prof. Wang Ruifang, President of Xiamen University Malaysia

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XMU President, Prof. Zhang Zongyi, turned the tassels for the graduands during the First Ceremony.

This year, XMUM’s Bachelor’s degree programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Physics, and English Language and Literature proudly presented their first cohort of graduands. A total of 1,419 students from 19 undergraduate and 5 postgraduate programmes graduated from XMUM, including 804 local Malaysian students and 615 international students.

XMUM graduates are highly valued in the job market, favoured not only by Chinese companies and its overseas branches, but also by international companies seeking to expand in Asian market. Many recent XMUM graduates have joined industry-leading companies, such as Intel, Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, Deloitte, KPMG, EY, Bank of China, ICBC, Maybank, Public Bank, UOB Bank, AIA, Accenture, Alliance, Lazada, 3M, BYD, IOI Group, Genting and Edra Power.

For those seeking to pursue further studies in other countries after completing undergraduate programmes at XMUM, the university can serve as the steppingstone to some of the best universities in the world. Many XMUM graduates have received offers for postgraduate study from world-renowned universities, such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Imperial College London, in the UK; Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Duke University, New York University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, in the US; National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore; University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Australian National University, University of Queensland, in Australia; as well as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo, among many others.
 

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Graduands celebrated this important milestone with family members and friends.

In September 2019, XMUM’s first batch of 371 graduates received their bachelor’s degree certificates awarded by Xiamen University. With 1,419 students from 19 undergraduate and 5 postgraduate programmes graduating this year, XMUM has produced more than 6,268 graduates to date.

XMUM aspires to become a university with a distinct global outlook, featuring first-class teaching and research, and embracing cultural diversity. 

As of September 2024, XMUM has a student enrolment of more than 8,500 students from 48 countries and regions, such as Malaysia, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, United States, Canada, Argentina, Egypt, Zambia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. 

XMUM has built up an internationalized, diverse and high-caliber faculty team, with about 300 full-time academic staff, of which more than 80% are doctoral degree holders. 

XMUM faculty members and students have produced over 1,670 publications in SCI journals, including 844 publications in prestigious Tier-1 journals, such as Science, Nature and The Lancet. Among these, more than 300 papers are published by XMUM students, including 194 papers published by XMUM students as the first author or the corresponding author. XMUM was selected as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Institutions globally in the fields of Clinical Medicine, Neuroscience & Behavior, Engineering, and Social Sciences, General. 6 XMUM publications have been selected as ESI Top 0.1% Hot Papers globally, while 85 XMUM publications were identified as Top 1% Highly Cited Papers globally. 15 XMUM academics have been selected as World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. XMUM is ranked 3rd in Malaysia by the Nature Index. According to the latest data for the ESI, Xiamen University Malaysia ranks 12th among the higher education institutions in Malaysia for total citations, and ranks 1st in terms of citation per paper. XMUM is incredibly proud to share that a paper with an XMUM master’s student as the first author was published in Science in November 2023, while another paper, with a faculty member as the corresponding author, was published in Nature Materials in 2022.

XMUM students have actively participated in all kinds of national and international competitions, and they have achieved impressive results. Besides winning 1 Gold, 10 Silver and 37 Bronze Prizes in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competitions from 2017 to 2023, XMUM teams won the First Prize in the China-US Young Maker Competition (2022), the Winner of the Southeast Asia Global Innovative Challenge (2023), the Champion in the Innovative Simulation Challenge (INNOSIM) 2023, the Regional Final Winner of International Quant Championship 2024, and the Gold Award in the International Virtual Competition of Creative and Innovative Idea (2024), to highlight a few.