Due to the university’s research on sustainable development, PolyU was selected by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia to become an APEX (Project Toward Excellence) university, known as the “Garden University of Asia”. PolyU has three campuses: main campus (Penang Island), engineering campus, and medical campus. It covers an area of 15,000 acres, a total of 28 colleges and 26 research centers, providing master’s and doctoral programs in more than 500 professional fields, and a large number of school teachers With educational and academic research backgrounds in the frontier countries of education in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, there are currently more than 33,000 undergraduates and postgraduates.
马来西亚理科大学（Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM），简称“理大”，成立于1969年。马来西亚理科大学是大马建立的第二所国立大学，也是马来西亚五所研究密集型大学之一。
由于大学在可持续发展方面的研究，理大被马来西亚教育部选中成为APEX（迈向卓绝计划）大学， 素有“亚洲的花园大学”的美誉。理大拥有主校区（槟岛）、工程校区、医学校区三个校区，占地面积15,000亩，共28个学院及26个研究中心，提供500多个专业领域的硕士和博士学位课程，学校教师多具有美、英、澳、新等世界教育前沿国家的教育和学术研究背景，现有本科生和研究生共33000多人。
