KOTA BHARU, July 15 (Bernama) — Sixth kilometer from Kota Bharu, the capital city of Kelantan, and about five minutes’ drive from Sultan Ismail Petra Airport is a knowledge valley where young people from across the country engage, collaborate and innovate to solve real-world problems.
This is Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), the top entrepreneurial university in Malaysia. As of June 2021, the university has 1,551 active student entrepreneurs and 845 registered student companies. Based on the tracer study conducted by MOHE (Ministry of Higher Education), UMK has produced 13% and 14.8% graduate entrepreneurs, the highest in Malaysia compared to the national average of 4.6%, and boasts a graduate employability rate of over 90% from its graduating class of 2019 and 2020 respectively.