Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology (KLUST) is a private university based in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. The institution was previously known as Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL), while its higher-education lineage begins with Ikram College, established in 1998. It became a full university under the IUKL name in 2012 and adopted the KLUST name in 2025.
Academic provision is organized through three faculties and dedicated centres for foundation, general and postgraduate study. KLUST provides education from foundation and diploma levels through bachelor's, master's and doctoral study, with teaching areas spanning engineering, architecture and the built environment, computing, business, communication, language studies, education and agricultural science.
| Field | Institutional information |
|---|---|
| Official Name | Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology |
| Abbreviation | KLUST |
| Previous Principal Name | Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL) |
| Institution Type | Private university |
| Higher-Education Origin | Ikram College, established in 1998 |
| University Status | Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur from 2012 |
| Present Name | Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology from 2025 |
| Location | Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Registered Address | Unipark Suria, Jalan Ikram-Uniten, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Academic Levels | Foundation, diploma, bachelor's, master's and doctoral study |
| Qualification Records | Malaysian Qualifications Agency and Malaysian Qualifications Register |
Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology and Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur belong to the same institutional lineage. Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur is recorded as the university's previous principal name, while KLUST is the name adopted in 2025.
The name change did not create a new university. KLUST continues an institution whose higher-education history extends to Ikram College in 1998 and whose full university status dates from the IUKL period beginning in 2012. This distinction is important when reading older qualification records, academic publications, alumni records and institutional references that use IUKL or earlier names.
The university is located at Unipark Suria, Jalan Ikram-Uniten, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. University contact information also identifies Block 11, Unipark Suria, within the campus.
The presence of “Kuala Lumpur” in the official university name does not place its registered campus within the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Its institutional address is in Kajang, Selangor. For international readers, Kajang, Selangor is therefore the more precise geographical description of the university.
KLUST operates from this Kajang campus with its academic faculties, centres, library, specialist teaching spaces, student-service functions and university-linked accommodation associated with the Unipark Suria location.
The development of KLUST can be traced through a series of institutional names and changes in status. Each stage remains relevant because older qualifications and institutional records may use the name in force at the time.
The organisational background predates the college itself. The Research and Training Institute connected with Malaysia's Public Works Department, known as IKRAM, was privatised in 1997 and became Kumpulan Ikram Sdn Bhd. This event forms part of the university's institutional background but is not the establishment date of the higher-education institution.
Ikram College was established in 1998 as the starting point of the university's higher-education lineage. In 2001, it was renamed Ikram College of Technology, commonly abbreviated as iCT.
A further change followed in 2003 when the institution became Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University College (KLIUC). This university-college period remains visible in older academic and research records.
In 2012, KLIUC attained full university status and became Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur. The IUKL name remained the institution's principal university identity until 2025.
The transition to Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology took place in 2025. The Malaysian Qualifications Agency records the KLUST name from 18 June 2025, while the university's public unveiling of the new identity took place on 25 June 2025. The two dates represent separate parts of the same institutional transition.
| Year | Institutional development |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Ikram College established |
| 2001 | Renamed Ikram College of Technology |
| 2003 | Became Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University College |
| 2012 | Attained full university status as Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur |
| 2025 | Adopted the name Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology |
This chronology also explains why historical Malaysian qualification records may contain KLIUC or IUKL rather than KLUST. The name attached to a record depends on the institutional identity in use during the relevant period.
KLUST's management structure includes the Chancellor, President and Vice-Chancellor, University Senate, Deputy Vice-Chancellor functions, Registrar and leadership associated with faculties and academic centres.
The University Senate forms part of the university's academic governance structure, while executive and administrative functions are represented through senior university offices. Faculty and centre leadership connects the university-wide structure with individual academic units.
The university organizes its principal academic activity through three faculties:
Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment (FABE)
Faculty of Business, Information & Human Sciences (FBIHS)
Faculty of Engineering, Science & Technology (FEST)
Two academic centres provide functions that operate across or alongside the faculty structure:
Centre for Foundation and General Studies (CFGS)
Centre for Postgraduate Studies (CPS)
A research-management function is also part of the institutional organization, with the Research Management Centre coordinating research-related activity.
The Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment covers disciplines associated with architecture, quantity surveying and the built environment.
Its place within KLUST reflects the university's continuing involvement in disciplines connected with buildings, construction and the physical development of places. These areas also have clear links with earlier stages of the institution's history, when infrastructure-related study was prominent in its identity.
Architecture and other regulated professional fields require particular attention to qualification-specific recognition. Faculty membership by itself does not establish identical professional status for every programme offered within the academic unit.
The Faculty of Business, Information & Human Sciences combines several subject groups rather than operating solely as a business school.
Its academic areas include business and management, accounting and finance, logistics and supply chain studies, communication, English-language studies, TESOL and related areas involving information technology and business applications.
This structure brings commercial, communication, language and human-science disciplines together within one faculty. It also shows that KLUST's academic scope extends beyond the engineering and infrastructure disciplines associated with earlier stages of the institution.
The Faculty of Engineering, Science & Technology covers engineering, computing, science and applied technology fields.
Its academic areas include civil engineering, electrical and electronics-related study, mechanical and automotive technology, computing and agricultural science. These disciplines connect the university's engineering heritage with a wider range of science and technology subjects.
Engineering remains a substantial part of KLUST's academic organization, but it does not define the university's full subject range. Business, human sciences, architecture, communication, language study, education and agriculture also appear within the wider academic structure.
The Centre for Foundation and General Studies supports foundation and general academic provision.
Its responsibilities include foundational subjects such as mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology, together with common or general-study subjects. The centre is also associated with the university's Intensive English Programme.
CFGS therefore serves a different role from the three faculties. Its work is connected with preparation for further study, common academic requirements and language support rather than a single disciplinary group of degree programmes.
The Centre for Postgraduate Studies coordinates postgraduate academic and administrative functions in association with the university's faculties. KLUST dates the establishment of the centre to 2009.
Master's and doctoral study remains connected to the relevant academic disciplines rather than forming a separate subject area under CPS. The centre provides a common point for postgraduate activity across fields represented within the university.
KLUST provides study across multiple qualification levels. Its academic and regulatory records include foundation, diploma, bachelor's, master's and doctoral qualifications.
The university's principal subject areas include:
architecture and built-environment studies;
engineering and engineering-related technology;
computing and information technology;
business and management;
accounting and finance;
logistics and supply chain studies;
communication;
English-language studies and TESOL;
agricultural science; and
related applied academic fields.
These areas are distributed across the university's faculties and academic centres rather than organized as a single catalogue of unrelated programmes.
Undergraduate study represents a substantial part of the university's provision, while postgraduate education extends into disciplines associated with engineering, built environment, business, communication, education and information technology.
KLUST states that English is its language of instruction. This institution-level teaching policy is distinct from programme-specific or applicant-specific English-language admission requirements, which can differ according to the qualification and admissions route.
The use of English as the teaching language is particularly relevant to the university's international admissions administration, but it does not remove the need for applicants to meet the academic and language conditions attached to the particular programme for which they apply.
KLUST appears within the Malaysian Qualifications Agency's records for private higher education. Its institutional entry in the Malaysian Qualifications Register connects the KLUST name with the former Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur identity and preserves qualification records across different periods of the university's development.
The MQR contains both historical and continuing qualification entries. A qualification appearing in the institutional record is therefore not automatically evidence that the programme is presently open for admission. The register also preserves records connected with previous programme versions and earlier institutional names.
This distinction is especially relevant to KLUST because its institutional history includes several name changes. Older qualifications may appear under Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur or an earlier institutional identity while remaining part of the same university lineage.
Malaysian qualification accreditation and professional recognition are also separate matters. Professional recognition may apply to a particular programme and may include a defined recognition or graduate period.
The Engineering Accreditation Council maintains records of accredited engineering programmes in Malaysia and includes KLUST among the institutions represented in its programme register. The Board of Architects Malaysia, also known as Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia, maintains a separate register of recognised architectural programmes containing KLUST entries.
These records apply at programme level. They do not establish a common professional status for every engineering, architecture or built-environment qualification carrying the KLUST name.
Recognition beyond Malaysia is also separate from Malaysian accreditation. Employment, professional registration or further study in another country can depend on the rules of the destination regulator, professional body, employer or receiving educational institution.
For this reason, KLUST's institutional standing and the status of an individual qualification need to be distinguished. The university itself has an MQA institutional record, while individual programmes carry their own qualification and, where relevant, professional recognition records.
KLUST maintains a dedicated Research Management Centre for university research administration.
The research-management function developed before the present KLUST name. Its history includes a Research and Consultancy Unit during the KLIUC period, followed by the IKRAM Centre of Research & Development. The Research Management Centre was established under that name on 1 June 2010.
The centre coordinates research administration, research information, consultancy and intellectual-property-related activity.
Research areas associated with the university include geo-disaster studies, geotechnical engineering, highway and transportation engineering, civil and structural engineering, information technology, business, management and accounting, language and communication, architecture and built-environment studies, and applied sciences.
This range mirrors KLUST's wider academic organization. Engineering and infrastructure-related subjects remain represented, while research activity also extends into technology, business and human-science disciplines.
KLUST also maintains research-publication resources. These include the International Journal of Infrastructure Research & Management, research books and historical directories of expertise.
The presence of these resources establishes a formal institutional route for research management and publication. It does not, by itself, establish comparative research performance, citation impact or journal indexing, so such claims are not necessary when describing the university.
KLUST operates a library at its Kajang campus for study, teaching and research use.
The library provides print and electronic information resources. Its physical spaces include the main printed collection, quiet-study areas, discussion spaces, private seminar rooms, a mini-theatre and a service counter.
The combination of individual and shared study areas allows the library to support different forms of academic use without treating it solely as a book collection.
KLUST also maintains specialist laboratories, workshops and project spaces connected with the subjects taught at the university.
Documented facilities include:
automotive and autotronic laboratories;
computing and communication laboratories;
electrical and electronics facilities;
concrete and material-testing laboratories;
hydraulic and environmental laboratories;
biotechnology facilities;
a mechanical workshop;
multimedia facilities; and
project rooms.
These facilities correspond with the university's academic work in engineering, computing, built-environment subjects, communication and science-related study.
The institutional value of these spaces lies in their subject-specific function. Engineering and technology disciplines have access to laboratory and workshop facilities, while computing, communication and science-related teaching is supported by spaces associated with those fields.
Student-facing administration at KLUST is distributed across several university units.
The Registrar's Office forms part of the administrative structure, while Student Administration & Management covers areas including insurance, transport, internship placement and student activities.
The university also maintains career-development and internship support, counselling services, Student Representative Council resources, ICT support and alumni and convocation functions.
Counselling provision includes individual counselling, group counselling and testing or assessment services. A Well Being & Learning Support function operates within student management services.
These services sit alongside academic faculties and centres, providing administrative and personal support for enrolled students without being tied to one discipline.
KLUST also has university-linked on-campus accommodation through the Residency @ Unipark Condominium at the Kajang campus. The residence includes furnished rooms and common residential facilities.
Accommodation is part of the university's student-service provision at Unipark Suria rather than an academic unit. Room arrangements and availability are operational matters, while the stable institutional point is the existence of on-campus student residence facilities connected with the university.
KLUST distinguishes between Malaysian and international application routes within its admissions structure.
International-student administration is supported by an International Student Management Centre. The unit handles international-student visa matters and provides a dedicated administrative point for overseas students.
This arrangement separates immigration and international-student administration from the responsibilities of academic faculties while keeping those services within the university's institutional structure.
English is used as the language of instruction. Academic eligibility and language conditions remain connected to the programme and applicant route rather than one fixed university-wide admissions threshold.
For a global reader, the enduring institutional features are the separate Malaysian and international admissions pathways, English-medium teaching and the existence of a dedicated unit handling international-student visa administration.
Yes. Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology is the present name of the institution previously known as Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur. IUKL remains relevant to older qualifications, academic publications, alumni records and other historical material.
KLUST is based at Unipark Suria, Jalan Ikram-Uniten, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. Its registered campus is in Kajang, Selangor, rather than the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.
The university's higher-education lineage begins with Ikram College, established in 1998. It became Ikram College of Technology in 2001, Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University College in 2003, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur in 2012 and Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology in 2025.
KLUST has three principal faculties: the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Business, Information & Human Sciences, and Faculty of Engineering, Science & Technology. It also has the Centre for Foundation and General Studies and the Centre for Postgraduate Studies.
The university's academic and qualification records cover foundation, diploma, bachelor's, master's and doctoral study.
Its broad academic areas include architecture and built-environment studies, engineering, computing, business, accounting and finance, logistics, communication, English-language studies, TESOL and agricultural science.
Yes. KLUST states that English is the language of instruction.
KLUST qualifications appear in the Malaysian Qualifications Register maintained by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency. The institutional record includes historical as well as continuing qualifications, including records associated with the former IUKL name.
Professional recognition is attached to specific programmes rather than every qualification at the university. Engineering and architecture, for example, have separate professional registers maintained by the relevant Malaysian bodies.
KLUST has a Research Management Centre, a university library and specialist teaching facilities including engineering, computing, communication, biotechnology, material-testing and other laboratory or workshop spaces.
Yes. University-linked on-campus accommodation is available through the Residency @ Unipark Condominium at the Kajang campus.
Yes. KLUST maintains an International Student Management Centre that handles international-student visa matters. Malaysian and international applicants also follow separate application routes within the university's admissions structure.
