Higher education is a huge investment of time and money for the benefits of its graduates. The world currently revolves around the changes in the global economy, increased employment challenges and increasing opportunities from technological innovation due to the Industrial Revolution 4.0.
The Bachelor of General Studies is a new academic programme offered by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) that enables graduates to strengthen the 21st century life skills such as critical thinking, complex problem-solving, communication, information management and negotiation.
The programme is tailored to enhance graduates’ skills by providing variety of crossdiciplinary courses that students can choose from based on their interests, passions, and goals. Students have the opportunity of hybrid learning between management and human resources, psychology, humanities, data management, information analysis, or computing.
This allows for diversed experiences in learning from different faculties available in UTM through a structured 4-year undergraduate curriculum. The programme aims to nurture learners’ lateral thinking to operate in a crossdiciplinary environment and leading the industrial, communal and societal changes.
With its 12 faculties?, academias, and centres of excellence, students gain access to the best of talent and expertise in Johor Bahru campus. They will also be involved in active learning, which necessitates and helps students to become independent learners, responsible for their own learning process. This reflects on the connection between theory and practice within and across disciplines.
This special academic programme also offers flexibility for working professionals who intend to upgrade and improve their skills, creating an excellent lifelong learning pathways.
The program will be conducted based on 2U2H mode of study which is student will be go through 2 years learning process in the campus/university and 2 years at home through online distance learning mode of study.
ARE YOU LOOKING AT CROSSDICIPLINARY PROGRAMME?
You can choose to enrol into a course relevant to your contemporary needs from a wide variety of specialization options.
ARE YOU SEEKING FOR AN INDIVIDUALISED PROGRAMME?
Customize your academic programme in accordance with personal preferences to meet your professional goals.
21st CENTURY TEACHING AND LEARNING
Graduates will be more progressive through their self-adaptation to knowledge and skills
DO YOU PREFER FLEXIBLE LEARNING?
You are encouraged to design your own academic programme across crossdiciplinary studies.
HAVING DIFFICULTY TO DESIGN YOUR CAREER?
Your academic and career advisor will ensure an individualized degree programme that will be formulated to fit competitive job opportunities.
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The Bachelor of General of Studies is customized to a variety of career needs including but not limited to: