POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

FACULTY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, UiTM currently offering postgraduate program that provide education for information professionals to enable a well-balanced, knowledgeable, competitive, and ethical workforce for the development of Malaysia and enabling graduate to become the catalyst for the knowledge-based society and transforming Malaysia into a developed country.

The programs offered:
1. IM950    Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management (by Research)
2. IM750    Master of Science in Information Management (by Research)
3. IM770    Master of Scienece in Information Management (by Coursework)
4. IM701    Master of Science in Knowledge Management (by Coursework) 
5. IM772    Master in Library Science (by Coursework)
6. IM773    Master of Science in Records and Documents Management (by Coursework)

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contact us at:

HEAD, CENTRE OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
Tel: 03 -7962 2126
COORDINATIOR, POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM
Tel: 03 - 7962 2138
POSTGRADUATE OFFICE
Tel: 03- 7962 2122
Fax: 03-7962 2007

WEBSITE: http://fim.uitm.edu.my
EMAIL: kppsiswazahfpm@puncakalam.uitm.edu.my
ONLINE ADMISSION: https://ipsis.uitm.edu.my/v2/

History

The ever growing nature of ITM in the past, i.e. expanding existing programmes and introducing new ones to fulfill the national development agenda, has been affecting the physical set-up and the branding of many schools in the ITM system. As part of the ITM population, the School of Library Science, as this faculty was known before, was no different. During its formative years, the School of Library Science conducted a full time program to prepare post-high school students for the professional qualification - Associate of Library Science (ALA-UK). The school later designed its own Malaysian curriculum, launched in 1972 - Diploma in Library Science for holders of Higher School Certificates, and Postgraduate Diploma in Library Science for university graduates. In keeping up with national and international developments, the School has been conducting regular curriculum reviews resulting in the integration of information science components into the curriculum. Hence, the change of the school name to "School of Library and Information Science" in 1979. With the addition of Archival and Records Management under the big umbrella of ”Information", the school name was changed again to "Faculty of Information Studies" in 1997. The current name, "Faculty of Information Management" has been in use since 2005 as a result of UiTM's regrouping of various academic programmes and disciplines campus-wide. The chronology below documents the change of names from 1968 to the present:

YEAR	NAME CHANGES
1968-1969	Department of Library Science, School of Public Administration and Law, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM)
1970-1978	School of Library Science, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM)
1979-1996	School of Library and Information Science, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM)
1997-1999	Faculty of Information Studies, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM)
1999-2005	Faculty of Information Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
2005 - now	Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Faculty of Information Management, UiTM, takes pride in being the pioneer in providing professional education to fulfil the manpower need of the country in three very important fields, namely: Information Management, Library Management, and Records Management. Our academic programmes, supplemented by industry attachments, equip graduates with knowledge and skills to take on the challenging demands of managing information in various forms and in various types of organisations. Our graduates become the main driving force for the development of a knowledge-based society, transforming Malaysia into a developed nation, ensuring that the country’s rich reservoirs of knowledge are systematically organised, maintained and enhanced for optimum value. To achieve this aim, the programmes consist of the blended components from four main areas: Information Technologies, Professional and Technical Aspects of Information and Records Management, Public Relations, and Users’ Needs and Services.

The Faculty of Information Management has moved premise seven times over a period of 36 years of its existence. The longest that the Faculty had stayed in one premise was about fourteen years, in the Jalan Othman Campus. At the Shah Alam main campus during 1996 – 2003, the faculty operated from two premises, the Menara SAAS and the new UMNO building in section 11, Shah Alam. The shortest period of stay was just nine months at the Academic 3 Complex from October 2003 to May 2004, before the move to Puncak Perdana Campus in June 2004. The chronology below documents the change of premises from 1968 to the present:

• 1968 - 1972 ITM Jalan Othman Campus

• 1972 - 1979  ITM Shah Alam, Menara Levels 12 & 13

• 1979 - 1993 ITM Jalan Othman Campus

• 1994 - 1996 UiTM shah Alam, Complex Tahir Majid

• 1996 - 2003  UiTM Shah Alam, Level 4, Menara Sultan Salahudin Abdul Aziz Shah and the UMNO buildings Section 11, Shah Alam

• Oct 2003 – May 2004          UiTM Shah Alam, Academic 3 Complex

• June 2004 - present          UiTM, Puncak Perdana Campus, Section U10, Shah Alam

Throughout these seven major physical relocations, the School had always maintained the necessary teaching and learning facilities which are unique to library and information science education, namely, Cataloging and Classification Lab, Audio Visual Lab, Archival and Preservation Lab, Computer Lab, in addition to classrooms, seminar rooms, administrative office, faculty and staff workplace. At the present Puncak Perdana campus, the faculty has become the pioneer for UiTM once more in establishing the modern and conductive facilities for teaching, learning and research in the four main fields of study. The branch library for Puncak Perdana Campus serves not only the students and staff in the Faculty of Information Management but also those of the Faculty of Performing Arts.

Source: Preserving the past, Valuing the present, Enriching the future