Wawasan Open University

Wawasan Open University’s School of Business and Administration (SBA) offers comprehensive business programmes in management, accounting, banking and finance, sales and marketing, and business information systems, designed to fulfill the needs of the business community. The programmes emphasise work-based learning approaches and links business management theories with practice.

In line with the university’s flexible, self-paced learning environment, the School provides flexible course structures that offer broader learning opportunities to working adults who want to study for accredited qualifications or for self-enrichment.

The School of Science and Technology (SST) offers a broad range of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes designed to meet the needs of employers in the fast-moving environment of computing, technology and electronics.

The School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences (SEHS) offers a broad range of diploma, graduate and undergraduate programmes and courses.

Our School provides students with learning opportunities in various disciplines including early childhood education, languages, literature, education, liberal studies and psychology.

The academic staff within SEHS are committed to supporting strong education programmes, as well as a range of multi-disciplinary programmes which promote lifelong personal and professional learning. Our disciplines and study programmes are diverse in their focus but we are united in our aim to enhance the knowledge and skills of people in the field of education, language studies, humanities and social sciences for the corporate world

The School of Digital Technology (DiGiT) offers a wide range of programmes in the fields of technology that cut across multiple disciplines, from business to computing technology to the creative industry. The programmes emphasise work-based learning and link theories with real-life applications to create a future-ready workforce.

The mission of DiGiT is to support the University’s aim to increase the level of knowledge and scholarship among all Malaysians. It does this by developing and delivering courses leading to the award of degrees and postgraduate qualifications in the broad areas of digital business and innovation, agile IT development, and media and creative industries. The School aspires to support the nation’s demand for a more technologically savvy workforce for the digital world by producing graduates with the required skill sets to meet the ever-changing needs of industry.

The flexible course structures offered by the School create broader learning opportunities for working adults who want to study for accredited qualifications or personal enrichment.

The Centre aims to support the University’s mission of increasing the level of knowledge and scholarship among all Malaysians by developing and delivering MPU (General Education courses) and University courses that are relevant to the programmes offered by the various Schools in WOU. The MPU courses help to support the country’s aspiration to produce holistic graduates with a deep sense of patriotism, nation-building and social responsibility, and with employability skills. The University courses stress on basic skills, thinking skills and personal qualities, and on competencies like resourcefulness, interpersonal communication and information technology.

The Centre will also reach out to the community by offering suitable certificate-level programmes, short courses and soft skills-based courses to cater to the increasing needs of industry and the society at large.

The Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS) was established in 2007 to manage postgraduate studies.

This aim is to achieve excellence in postgraduate education and research training programmes in partnership with all Schools in the University and collaboration with other centres of graduate studies, co-researchers from participating institutions and private-sector agencies.

The Centre for Research and Innovation (CeRI) is a functional unit in the organisation of Wawasan Open University, placed directly under the leadership of the Vice Chancellor. The CeRI Committee comprises of the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Head of CeRI, Deans and a Representative from each School. The CeRI committee oversees and manages the activities related to Research and Innovation in the university

The Centre for Professional Development & Continuing Education (PACE) offers high quality short courses and training programmes for self enrichment and the professional development of the workforce from the public and private sectors.

PACE programmes and courses are designed and delivered in collaboration with academics from the University, professional bodies as well as through its own or external trainers. They are specially customised to meet the continuing professional development needs of the business world and civil society.

PACE trainings can be offered entirely face-to-face, entirely online, or in a blended mode, according to the convenience of learners.