Management and Science University (MSU) emerged Malaysia’s Number 1 for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings (WUR) by Subject in 2021 – straight off the University’s first entry.

 

With such a background of excellence in the context of a world university ranking, MSU is establishing a reputation in the arts and furthering an already strong position in the field.

 

A powerful characteristic is how much of the University diaspora cares about the arts and is involved either academically, professionally, or side-by-side with the curriculum. At MSU, immersion in the arts is among the central components of a 21st-century learning experience. Across the campus diversity, artistic excellence is encouraged as individual creative passions are explored towards future leadership and innovation in the arts.

 

 

Up-close with Mah Meri art

Connecting with craft

Art, language, culture in MoU with Turkish Cultural Centre Yunus Emre Institute

 

We excel in expanding boundaries.

 

We extend our teaching and learning of the arts to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a nod to heritage.

 

Heritage for the future

Creative, with traditional twists, in MSU’s Songket Splendour

Heritage culture and couture in MSU’s SANADA

Heritage appreciation for MSUrians

 

We expand the University community by increasing the number of practising artists, both on the teaching staff and in the student body. 

 

A pinch of Turkey opens future adjunct series by MSU’s new cuisine expert

In conversation with Chef Omur Akkor of Turkey

General of the Style Soldiers is guest speaker at SHCA’s Dean’s List Award 2021

 

We thread art with entrepreneurship – a fact common to all academic disciplines at MSU. We very recently launched the MSU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Sandbox (MINES) – an incubation platform for aspiring entrepreneurs from all walks of life to transform creative ideas into successful businesses; a catalyst for the creation of a conducive entrepreneurial ecosystem where research, applied knowledge, and commercialization combine into holistic entrepreneurship development.

 

A beautiful world

Patisserie for pep

Heart on heritage

Collections of commitment

Basic Design for Business in SHCA’s HeARTS’s sustainable cities and communities programme MyNeighbours

 

MSU also offers a Master in Fashion Business programme for further development of budding professional fashion entrepreneurs with multi-disciplinary leadership ability.

 

We have launched ADADA Malaysia, the newest member of the Asia Digital Art and Design Association (ADADA) International Alliance.

 

 

Across our art, creative, and design programmes, be it at diploma, Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s degree levels – from performing arts and liberal arts to culinary arts and patisserie arts; creative video and photography to creative visual and creative multimedia; accessories design, graphic design, product design, to game design and animation – our students go on our flagship programmes of Global Mobility (GMP), Global Leadership (GLP), and Global Internship (GIP); to learn from, and develop their own, global perspectives in the arts.

 

Hospitable in Hanoi

Summer’s culture campers

Keeping up with creative trends and technologies in Tokyo

Cruise to a culinary career

 

As the country’s top school for Fashion Design, our Diploma in Fashion Design programme aims to develop creative awareness and understanding of fashion and textiles through the practices of research, drawing, and technical skills, also through an understanding of colour, texture, pattern, and form, and an awareness of fashion and textiles as a three-dimensional experience; whilst our Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) programme provides a dynamic, supportive environment for the cultivation and development of fashion artistry, with special focus on marketing as a tool for promoting fashion art.

 

 

Favourite memories have been built on making or experiencing the arts, especially when our students receive academic credits while pursuing their personal artistic interests. The extracurricular energy on campus, vibrant with exploration and creativity, is a reflection of an expanding vision as the arts become a dynamic part of the curriculum at MSU.

 

Creativity, starring string art

Lighting up the campus with a celebration of culture

Cultural celebrations at MSU – the best from 2018

Lights, camera, Chinese New Year!

Art for the heart

Dancing queen

Poetry in posture

Music for young minds

Fashion, food, song and dance capture Indian traditional theme

In song and spirit, harmony across diversity

Bonding over flavours and colours

 

 

Our mission for quality education results in the development of balanced, well-rounded, holistic graduates. With practical content and industry input embedded across all our programmes of study and with 98.7 percent of our alumni successfully securing employment within six months of their convocation, MSU has emerged Malaysia’s #1 university for the most employable graduates.

 

MSU is top again for graduate employability

Sewing on employability

Hitting the ground cooking

Behind the music, art in his sound technique

 

The successes of our students demonstrate the impact of our work.

Designing her future at MSU

Making her way up the world stage in beauty management

Healthy food for the future

In the fellowship of the dragon

 

In meeting the SDGs, two in particular, from MSU’s Diploma in Fashion Design programme and Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) programme, have respectively won second place in the Waste is Amazing Paper Couture competition by local council Alam Flora and third place in the Contemporary Menswear through Sustainable Scrap Fabric competition by local institution of higher education UiTM in the Malaysian state of Perak.

 

First runner-up for forest fashion

 

In culinary arts, our young future chefs and patissieurs continue making headlines with their repeated wins across international competitions.

 

Culinary’s golden girl

Culinary champions

Three win 3R MasterChef sustainability challenge

Most Outstanding Modern Asian Cuisine Restaurant in Battle of the Chefs 2018

Big win in Melaka Challenge 2019

Multiple achievements in SICF Culinary Challenge 2021

 

In delivering our commitment towards leading change in how we teach and how our students learn, as well as acknowledging how creativity and performance enrich university life, we continue to work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally for partnerships that encourage excellence and innovation in the arts.

 

 

Local and national collaborations in the arts

 

The pandemic has brought on a multiple-party collaboration between local authorities and councils with Management and Science University (MSU).

 

Supporting the United Nations’ SDG3 for Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG11 for Sustainable Cities and Communities, and SDG17 for Partnership for the Goals, the MSU Protective Clothing for Medical Frontliners project or M-ProteC involved 150 students and members of staff, MSU Foundation YMSU, MSU Medical Centre, MSU industry partners, the Ministry of Health Malaysia, Lembaga Zakat Selangor of the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Shah Alam Hospital, Sungai Buloh Hospital, Klang Hospital (HTAR), and Kajang Hospital.

 

MSU has an MoU with the National Academy of Arts, Culture, and Heritage (ASWARA) in Kuala Lumpur.

 

The University also has an MoU with animation studio Digital Durian.

 

 

Regional and international collaborations for the arts  

 

The MSU International Fashion Collection 2021 showcase was a collaboration between MSU’s School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA) with UEDA College of Fashion in Japan and Japanese textile manufacturer treasuKURA. Officiated by the-then Minister of Higher Education Malaysia, it showcased 20 masks and 20 garments with elements of the Malaysian heritage fabric songket as well as the Japanese kimono. The collection’s dark-to-light colour transition formed the thematic statement of ‘New Hope’ against the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Right up to when the pandemic broke, our students of Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) and Diploma in Fashion Design had been participating in UEDA Gakuen Fashion Show in Osaka yearly since 2017 through MSU’s Global Leadership Programme (GLP) to Japan.

 

Our Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) students also participate in Global Mobility Programme (GMP) with MSU’s partner universities in Turkey such as Bilkent University and Kadir Has University; in Korea such as Kyung Hee University; and many more.

 

The first MSU Virtual Fashion Show ‘New Norm: Slay It Safe’, held on December 15, 2020 saw collaboration between MSUtv from the MSU Media and Strategic Communication (MSC) and the ten branches of MSU College nationwide as well as offshore campuses in Jakarta and Colombo. Showcasing 30 garments by 23 students of Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) and Diploma in Fashion Design, it raised MYR2,000 in endowments to MSU Foundation Yayasan MSU.

 

MSU had hosted the Indonesian Cultural Night Festival 2018 by the Education and Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Kuala Lumpur.

 

MSU has also set up a Chinese Cultural Centre on campus.

 

With so many arts represented and a passionate community both on campus and out there as members of the MSU alumni, interdisciplinarity has been key in bringing everything and everyone together.

 

M-ProteC was a community project initiated by MSU’s School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA) in an almost immediate response to the pandemic as it broke. Producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical frontline workers, it saw interdisciplinary collaboration from all three faculties, four schools, and one centre of fundamental studies at Management and Science University as everyone volunteered in the multiple stages of designing, cutting, assembly, and packaging for distribution of the PPEs to various local hospitals in and around the Klang Valley. More than 3,000 PPE sets comprising isolation gown, head cover, boot cover, and face shield were successfully sewn and distributed.

 

 

 



Management and Science University (MSU) emerged Malaysia’s Number 1 for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings (WUR) by Subject in 2021 – straight off the University’s first entry.

 

With such a background of excellence in the context of a world university ranking, MSU is establishing a reputation in the arts and furthering an already strong position in the field.

 

A powerful characteristic is how much of the University diaspora cares about the arts and is involved either academically, professionally, or side-by-side with the curriculum. At MSU, immersion in the arts is among the central components of a 21st-century learning experience. Across the campus diversity, artistic excellence is encouraged as individual creative passions are explored towards future leadership and innovation in the arts.

 

 

Up-close with Mah Meri art

Connecting with craft

Art, language, culture in MoU with Turkish Cultural Centre Yunus Emre Institute

 

We excel in expanding boundaries.

 

We extend our teaching and learning of the arts to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a nod to heritage.

 

Heritage for the future

Creative, with traditional twists, in MSU’s Songket Splendour

Heritage culture and couture in MSU’s SANADA

Heritage appreciation for MSUrians

 

We expand the University community by increasing the number of practising artists, both on the teaching staff and in the student body. 

 

A pinch of Turkey opens future adjunct series by MSU’s new cuisine expert

In conversation with Chef Omur Akkor of Turkey

General of the Style Soldiers is guest speaker at SHCA’s Dean’s List Award 2021

 

We thread art with entrepreneurship – a fact common to all academic disciplines at MSU. We very recently launched the MSU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Sandbox (MINES) – an incubation platform for aspiring entrepreneurs from all walks of life to transform creative ideas into successful businesses; a catalyst for the creation of a conducive entrepreneurial ecosystem where research, applied knowledge, and commercialization combine into holistic entrepreneurship development.

 

A beautiful world

Patisserie for pep

Heart on heritage

Collections of commitment

Basic Design for Business in SHCA’s HeARTS’s sustainable cities and communities programme MyNeighbours

 

MSU also offers a Master in Fashion Business programme for further development of budding professional fashion entrepreneurs with multi-disciplinary leadership ability.

 

We have launched ADADA Malaysia, the newest member of the Asia Digital Art and Design Association (ADADA) International Alliance.

 

 

Across our art, creative, and design programmes, be it at diploma, Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s degree levels – from performing arts and liberal arts to culinary arts and patisserie arts; creative video and photography to creative visual and creative multimedia; accessories design, graphic design, product design, to game design and animation – our students go on our flagship programmes of Global Mobility (GMP), Global Leadership (GLP), and Global Internship (GIP); to learn from, and develop their own, global perspectives in the arts.

 

Hospitable in Hanoi

Summer’s culture campers

Keeping up with creative trends and technologies in Tokyo

Cruise to a culinary career

 

As the country’s top school for Fashion Design, our Diploma in Fashion Design programme aims to develop creative awareness and understanding of fashion and textiles through the practices of research, drawing, and technical skills, also through an understanding of colour, texture, pattern, and form, and an awareness of fashion and textiles as a three-dimensional experience; whilst our Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) programme provides a dynamic, supportive environment for the cultivation and development of fashion artistry, with special focus on marketing as a tool for promoting fashion art.

 

 

Favourite memories have been built on making or experiencing the arts, especially when our students receive academic credits while pursuing their personal artistic interests. The extracurricular energy on campus, vibrant with exploration and creativity, is a reflection of an expanding vision as the arts become a dynamic part of the curriculum at MSU.

 

Creativity, starring string art

Lighting up the campus with a celebration of culture

Cultural celebrations at MSU – the best from 2018

Lights, camera, Chinese New Year!

Art for the heart

Dancing queen

Poetry in posture

Music for young minds

Fashion, food, song and dance capture Indian traditional theme

In song and spirit, harmony across diversity

Bonding over flavours and colours

 

 

Our mission for quality education results in the development of balanced, well-rounded, holistic graduates. With practical content and industry input embedded across all our programmes of study and with 98.7 percent of our alumni successfully securing employment within six months of their convocation, MSU has emerged Malaysia’s #1 university for the most employable graduates.

 

MSU is top again for graduate employability

Sewing on employability

Hitting the ground cooking

Behind the music, art in his sound technique

 

The successes of our students demonstrate the impact of our work.

Designing her future at MSU

Making her way up the world stage in beauty management

Healthy food for the future

In the fellowship of the dragon

 

In meeting the SDGs, two in particular, from MSU’s Diploma in Fashion Design programme and Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) programme, have respectively won second place in the Waste is Amazing Paper Couture competition by local council Alam Flora and third place in the Contemporary Menswear through Sustainable Scrap Fabric competition by local institution of higher education UiTM in the Malaysian state of Perak.

 

First runner-up for forest fashion

 

In culinary arts, our young future chefs and patissieurs continue making headlines with their repeated wins across international competitions.

 

Culinary’s golden girl

Culinary champions

Three win 3R MasterChef sustainability challenge

Most Outstanding Modern Asian Cuisine Restaurant in Battle of the Chefs 2018

Big win in Melaka Challenge 2019

Multiple achievements in SICF Culinary Challenge 2021

 

In delivering our commitment towards leading change in how we teach and how our students learn, as well as acknowledging how creativity and performance enrich university life, we continue to work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally for partnerships that encourage excellence and innovation in the arts.

 

 

Local and national collaborations in the arts

 

The pandemic has brought on a multiple-party collaboration between local authorities and councils with Management and Science University (MSU).

 

Supporting the United Nations’ SDG3 for Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG11 for Sustainable Cities and Communities, and SDG17 for Partnership for the Goals, the MSU Protective Clothing for Medical Frontliners project or M-ProteC involved 150 students and members of staff, MSU Foundation YMSU, MSU Medical Centre, MSU industry partners, the Ministry of Health Malaysia, Lembaga Zakat Selangor of the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Shah Alam Hospital, Sungai Buloh Hospital, Klang Hospital (HTAR), and Kajang Hospital.

 

MSU has an MoU with the National Academy of Arts, Culture, and Heritage (ASWARA) in Kuala Lumpur.

 

The University also has an MoU with animation studio Digital Durian.

 

 

Regional and international collaborations for the arts  

 

The MSU International Fashion Collection 2021 showcase was a collaboration between MSU’s School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA) with UEDA College of Fashion in Japan and Japanese textile manufacturer treasuKURA. Officiated by the-then Minister of Higher Education Malaysia, it showcased 20 masks and 20 garments with elements of the Malaysian heritage fabric songket as well as the Japanese kimono. The collection’s dark-to-light colour transition formed the thematic statement of ‘New Hope’ against the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Right up to when the pandemic broke, our students of Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) and Diploma in Fashion Design had been participating in UEDA Gakuen Fashion Show in Osaka yearly since 2017 through MSU’s Global Leadership Programme (GLP) to Japan.

 

Our Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) students also participate in Global Mobility Programme (GMP) with MSU’s partner universities in Turkey such as Bilkent University and Kadir Has University; in Korea such as Kyung Hee University; and many more.

 

The first MSU Virtual Fashion Show ‘New Norm: Slay It Safe’, held on December 15, 2020 saw collaboration between MSUtv from the MSU Media and Strategic Communication (MSC) and the ten branches of MSU College nationwide as well as offshore campuses in Jakarta and Colombo. Showcasing 30 garments by 23 students of Bachelor in Fashion Design with Marketing (Hons) and Diploma in Fashion Design, it raised MYR2,000 in endowments to MSU Foundation Yayasan MSU.

 

MSU had hosted the Indonesian Cultural Night Festival 2018 by the Education and Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Kuala Lumpur.

 

MSU has also set up a Chinese Cultural Centre on campus.

 

With so many arts represented and a passionate community both on campus and out there as members of the MSU alumni, interdisciplinarity has been key in bringing everything and everyone together.

 

M-ProteC was a community project initiated by MSU’s School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA) in an almost immediate response to the pandemic as it broke. Producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical frontline workers, it saw interdisciplinary collaboration from all three faculties, four schools, and one centre of fundamental studies at Management and Science University as everyone volunteered in the multiple stages of designing, cutting, assembly, and packaging for distribution of the PPEs to various local hospitals in and around the Klang Valley. More than 3,000 PPE sets comprising isolation gown, head cover, boot cover, and face shield were successfully sewn and distributed.