UNISEL was established on 23 August 1999 as the first state funded private university in Malaysia with the aim of providing world-class tertiary education and opportunities for research and development within the broad sphere of industrial technology, management as well as information and communications technology. It began operations from a temporary campus in Shah Alam until its main campus in the township of Bestari Jaya, approximately 50 km away from the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur, was completed in 2005. UNISEL now operates from both the Shah Alam and Bestari Jaya campuses.
UNISEL is wholly owned and managed by the State Government of Selangor through Pendidikan Industri YS Sdn. Bhd. (PIYS), a subsidiary of the state-owned investment arm, Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad and established under the provisions of the Private Higher Education Institutions Act 1996. It is one of the two institutions of higher education owned by the state government via PIYS, the other being INPENS International College.UNISEL currently operates from two campuses: one in the township of Bestari Jaya and another in the state capital, Shah Alam. The first Chancellor of UNISEL was appointed on 21 August 2006. The first person to hold this position is Rosmah Mansor, the wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Tun Razak Rosmah graduated from the University of Malaya with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology and later earned her Master of Science in Sociology from the Louisiana State University.Bestari JayaThe main campus is on a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) lot which is part of a 4,000 acres (16 km2) piece of land which has been earmarked as the Selangor Educational Park. It is the location of the following faculties:
- Faculty of Science and Environmental Technology (formerly the Faculty of Applied Science and Mathematics)
- Faculty of Education and social sciences
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Industrial Information Technology
- Faculty of Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Shah AlamThe Shah Alam campus is in Section 7 of the city and is the location of the following faculties:
- Faculty of Communication And Media
- Faculty of Biomedical & Health Science
- Faculty Of Industrial Art & Design Technology
- Faculty of Business
- UNISEL Graduate School of Management
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