Non-bumis made up 18.1pct of public uni intake in 2022

Bumiputeras made up 81.9 percent of public university intake in 2022, according to Higher Education Ministry records.

The balance of 18.1 percent was non-bumiputera. It is not clear how many new enrolments involved foreign students.

This was revealed by Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin in a parliamentary written reply to Wee Ka Siong (BN-Ayer Hitam), who shared the reply on Facebook yesterday.

In a separate reply to Chow Yu Hui (Harapan-Raub), Khaled said 84,607 students enrolled for bachelor’s degree courses in 2022.

The main pathway to a degree course was a diploma (44 percent), followed by STPM (26.8 percent), and matriculation courses (20 percent).

Other routes included foundation courses (7.3 percent), Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (Stam) (1.6 percent), and Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (Apel) (0.3 percent).

Khaled said, in yet another reply to Chow, for bachelor course enrolments for 2022, 17.3 percent of bumiputera students used the matriculation route while the same route was used by 15.5 percent of non-bumiputera students.

Overall, bumiputeras made up 86.5 percent or 476,796 students enrolled in public universities in 2022, based on Khaled’s reply to Willie Mongin (GPS-Puncak Borneo).

Khaled said, among the bumiputera students, 5.3 percent were non-Muslims, while 7.9 percent of non-bumiputera students were Muslims.

All figures cited by Khaled were based on 2022 data on the Public University Data Collection System (MyMoheS). - Mkini