About Us
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 multidisciplinary 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 multidisciplinary environment and leading the industrial, communal and societal changes.
With its seven faculties and over 29 schools, 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.