The registration for the new Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business (OYAGSB) postgraduate students for the second semester (A182) January session 2018/2019 admissions took place, yesterday.

For the January admission, a total of 117 offer letters were issued to 70 local students and 47 international students who hail from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, China, Algeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Thailand, Nigeria and Indonesia.

The registration process for both the Master Degree and Doctoral Degree programmes took place smoothly.  The study session will begin on 11th January.

The Dean of OYAGSB, Prof. Dr. Shahizan Hassan welcomed the students who successfully registered and congratulated them on becoming part of the UUM community.

"I hope that all of you as new students at OYAGSB will study hard to achieve success and make use of the opportunity to study at UUM as best you can.

"I fervently hope that all of you will be able to complete your studies within the stipulated time and graduate successfully," he said this when delivering his speech during a briefing session with the new students.

Shortly thereafter, the entire academic briefing series was presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Subramaniam Sri Ramalu, Deputy Dean of OYAGSB; the subsequent academic briefing according to programme was carried out by Prof. Ts. Dr. Norazah Mohd Suki for the PhD & MSc (Research) programmes, followed by briefing of the DBA programme by Prof. Dr. Nor Azila Mohd Noor and finally the briefing for the MBA programme was conducted by Dr. Francis Chuah Chin Wei.

Tunku Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA), Islamic Business School (IBS) and School of Business Management (SBM), School of Economics, Finance and Banking (SEFB) also carried out their respective briefing sessions.