The International Medical University (IMU) is a private, health sciences university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Malaysia's leading private medical and healthcare university.
It was established in 1992, and is active in research and teaching within medicine and healthcare with a strong international orientation. IMU is a wholly owned subsidiary of Asia's largest private healthcare group IHH Healthcare, which is majority-owned by the Mitsui & Co. The current CEO of IMU is Abdul Aziz Baba.
IMU was the first private higher education institution in Malaysia that received the right to confer academic degrees, and it was granted full university status by the government in 1999.
It cooperates with universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, NewZealand, Canada, Ireland and China.
The main campus of IMU is located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. As of November 2018, the university has 716 employees and 3,786 students.
The university offers programmes in medical and other health sciences as well as MSc and PhD programmes.
