Manipal Heritage

The Manipal Group has an established legacy in Malaysia. Close to a third of the doctors registered with the Malaysian Medical Council are alumni of Melaka Manipal Medical College - the single largest contribution to professional medical manpower in the country by a private institution. One the world’s largest education services providers, the Bangalore, India headquartered Manipal Group owns and operates several institutions of higher education in India, Dubai, Nepal, and Malaysia. The Group’s six decades of experience in running quality educational institutions is clearly reflected in the world class faculty and facilities at MIU. MIU offers professional programs in the fields of Science, Engineering, Business and Management. The142-acre state of the art campus at MIU Nilai, south of Kuala Lumpur, represents an investment exceeding USD 200 million. This environment friendly campus is set to be the first university in Malaysia to comply with the Leadership in Environment and Energy Design (LEED) Platinum certification.

Malaysia, country of Southeast Asia, lying just north of the Equator, that is composed of two noncontiguous regions: Peninsular Malaysia (Semenanjung Malaysia), also called West Malaysia (Malaysia Barat), which is on the Malay Peninsula, and East Malaysia (Malaysia Timur), which is on the island of Borneo. The Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, lies in the western part of the peninsula, about 25 miles (40 km) from the coast; the administrative centre, Putrajaya, is located about 16 miles (25 km) south of the capital.

Climate
Both peninsular and insular Malaysia lie in the same tropical latitudes and are affected by similar airstreams. They have high temperatures and humidities, heavy rainfall, and a climatic year patterned around the northeast and southwest monsoons. The four seasons of the climatic year are the northeast monsoon (from November or December until March), the first intermonsoonal period (March to April or May), the southwest monsoon (May or June to September or early October), and the second intermonsoonal period (October to November). The onset and retreat of the two monsoons are not sharply defined.

Ethnic groups and languages
The Malay Peninsula and the northern coast of Borneo, both situated at the nexus of one of the major maritime trade routes of the world, have long been the meeting place of peoples from other parts of Asia. As a result, the population of Malaysia, like that of Southeast Asia as a whole, shows great ethnographic complexity. Helping to unite this diversity of peoples is the national language, a standardized form of Malay, officially called Bahasa Malaysia (formerly Bahasa Melayu). It is spoken to some degree by most communities, and it is the main medium of instruction in public primary and secondary schools.

Key facts about Malaysia
Capital: Kuala Lumpur
Dialing code: +60
Currency: Malaysian ringgit