enVision UTM 2025

enVision UTM 2025 is the Strategic Plan of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for five years, from 2021 to 2025. The Strategic Plan aims to present the 5-year strategic plan in which the institutional strategies will be executed in a series of stages.

UTM’s vision, built upon the aspirations outlined in the previous University Global Plan (Pelan Global Universiti or PGU), is to excel as a premier university providing world-class education and research. Therefore, UTM embarked upon its mission to develop holistic talents and prosper lives through knowledge and innovative technologies from its sprawling main campus in Skudai Johor, city campus in Kuala Lumpur and another campus in Pagoh.

Guided by the university four core values of integrity, synergy, excellence, and sustainability (ISES), UTM has established five interrelated strategic thrusts to effectively manage the increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment affecting higher education:

Strategic Thrust 1: World-class Holistic Talents to extend the Frontier of Education and Research.

Strategic Thrust 2: Creative and Resilient Performance Delivery Through Emphatic and Agile Governance.

Strategic Thrust 3: Institutional Growth through Unique Niche and Specialization for Long-term Sustainability.

Strategic Thrust 4: Transformative Life Experiences through Knowledge Empowerment and Trust.

Strategic Thrust 5: Global Eminence as Malaysian Top Research University in 2025.

The above thrusts have corresponding 8 strategic priorities:

Strategic Priorities, SP1: Produce holistic talent by developing high quality graduates.

Strategic Priorities, SP2: Provide continuous upskilling and reskilling of university staff to achieve excellence in education and research.

Strategic Priorities, SP3: To inculcate UTM core values namely Integrity, Synergy, Excellence and Sustainability (ISES) into work and management eco-system.

Strategic Priorities, SP4: Strengthen UTM’s R&D&C&I capability and resilience to champion emerging knowledge and research areas.

Strategic Priorities, SP5: Nurture strategic nexus between University-Industry-Government-Community (the quadruple helix) ecosystem to sustain university growth.

Strategic Priorities, SP6: Provide sustainable campus experience to UTM’s students, staff and surrounding community.

Strategic Priorities, SP7: Enculturate data driven culture with high level of trust in technology.

Strategic Priorities, SP8: Achieve global eminence as a distinguished Malaysia Research University in-line with national and global agenda.