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All universities in Malaysia will provided better facilities to attract students to enter the university. Enhancement will always take place year by year. Although most of public university had opened more than a decade, the facilities served move along with other new universities that recently have been build. 

In UKM,the University provides a number of services and facilities on campus to cater for students’ needs. They provided from the normal services that every student requires such as food, housing and books to those with health or academic problems.It has its own PUSANIKA that acts as the centre for much of the student activities on campus and it has excellent facilities for students.

STUDENT'S HEALTH CENTRE

The University Students’ Health Centre, located on Bangi Campus, offers services as follows:

• Refers student who requires specialist treatment to Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, inCheras, Kuala Lumpur.
•  All students will be provided with emergency treatment.
• Provides ambulance service for taking patients to the nearest hospital.
• Provides standby service especially during university activities.
• Takes proper and adequate measures for infectious diseases.
• Provides outpatient treatment to students.
• Those students who work officially in urban area, they will be offers prophylactic measures.
• Provides immunisation to those students going abroad with the University’s consent.

 Student’s Health Centre also offers facilities as follows:

• Laboratory facilities for basic tests. Steps are also taken to widen laboratory facilities.
• Treatment room facilities for minor surgery, suturing dressing equipped with bed, ECG machine, suction apparatus, infrared lamp and other apparatus are provided.
• Dental service.

 STUDENTS’ COUNSELLING UNIT

Other facility offers in UKM is student’s counseling unit where an array of services to assist students in their developmental process towards self-actualisation. Students have plenty opportunities to discuss with the counsellors who are professionally trained and who would attend to students personally and individually. The type of services provided is as follows:

• Personal-social Counselling
• Academic Counselling
• Career, Vocational and Placement Counselling
• Financial Counselling
• Research, Resources and Reference
• Study Techniques Workshop
• Career Exploration Workshop
• Career Talk
• Career Day/Career Week
• Group Activities
• Leadership Training

STUDENTS’ HOUSING

Although UKM provides housing facilities such as hostel on the main campus at Bangi, preference is given to undergraduate students.

Graduate students are persuaded to stay in off-campus apartments or houses located in Bangi town or surrounding areas.  Candidates are advised to seek information from the Head of Housing Unit for Students located at PUSANIKA. They can find information on housing facilities and assistance to facilities and the acquisition of accommodation immediately upon arrival on campus or during registration.

SPORTS AND RECREATION

The facilities which are available to all students and staff include playing fields for football, rugby and hockey, tennis courts, cricket, softball and driving range for golf and a number of courts for basketball, netball, badminton, squash and sepak takraw.  In addition, a well-equipped exercise room is also available.  All students are encouraged to make use of the facilities whenever they are free to do so.

STUDENTS’ SERVICE CENTRE (PUSANIKA)

The students’ Service Centre or better known as “PUSANIKA” is located on the main campus in Bangi. There were a number of facilities including banking, postal, bookshop, mini market, cafeteria and others. Department of Students’ Affairs, the Department of Students’ Housing, the Department Counselling Services and other offices associated with student’s activities also located in PUSANIKA. It is very convenient to put matters pertaining to student’s affairs under one roof.

CAFETERIA

There are several cafeterias located at strategic places on the main campus in Bangi as well as on the branch campuses at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Allied Health Sciences in Kuala Lumpur.  Cafeterias are also found in the residential halls.  These cafeterias provide several varieties of foods to cater for student’s needs.

TRANSPORT SERVICES

Candidates are advised to take a taxi to the campus after the arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The journey will take about half an hour.

In campus, the University provides its own bus service within the campus and the surrounding residential areas in Kajang and Bandar Baru Bangi.  A significant sum is charged for the service.  Some private bus companies also operate on campus and from the campus to nearby towns of Kajang and Bandar Baru Bangi and to and from Petaling Jaya and the capital city of Kuala Lumpur.

A train/commuter station also ocated next to the campus while taxi service is also available.

Library

The Tun Seri Lanang Library is one of the biggest university libraries in Malaysia. It has several branches such as the Malay World and Civilisation Library, Law Library, Dr. Abdul Latiff Library and UKM Medical Centre Library. In addition, most faculties have their own mini libraries. The Tun Seri Lanang Library has a collection of over 1,047,450 volumes of books and subscribes to 109,274 scientific journals in all academic disciplines.

For undergraduate students, they are allowed to borrow five books for a period of two weeks and the graduate students are allowed to borrow up to 15 books per month.

Religious Centre
The UKM also has its own mosque which is located in the main campus.  A Church, Hindu and Buddhist temples are located nearby Bangi and Kajang.

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Library

Universiti Tenaga Nasional Library is one of the leading Private University Libraries in Malaysia. It had a good reputation for providing information resources and excellence in customer service. In enabling and supporting the high standard of learning, teaching, education and research, the library play a key role in providing the resources and services. The Library develops and maintains extensive print and e-resources. The core collections encompass subjects in engineering, information technology, business management and accounting. The Library has one Main Library in Putrajaya Campus and one branch library in Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus (KSHAS).

Accommodation

There were student apartments available for over 3,800 students, including a small number of units for married students. UNITEN makes an effort to house all students on campus for at least one year. Hotel-standard accommodation, equipped with up-to-date facilities for graduate students, conference and seminar participants, visiting academicians and visitors, as well as for their families provided in The Putrajaya Campus.

Computer Lab

The Information Technology and Multimedia Services (ITMS) is the campus network provider. It served computer laboratories that were located throughout the campus. All the laboratories are interconnected, forming the university's Local Area Network (LAN). All teaching staff and students are provided with computer log-in accounts and e-mail addresses with Internet access.

Social, recreational and sports facilities

UNITEN has a range of recreational and sporting facilities. It includes an Olympic-size swimming pool, track and field event facilities, fields for soccer, hockey and rugby as well as courts for tennis, badminton and sepak takraw. There is also a multipurpose hall with gallery seating for 3,000 that is used for both sporting and cultural activities. The Recreational and Sports Section provides day-long to semester-long recreational courses, adventure programs, social sports, swimming classes, horse riding, and state, national and international university sporting competitions.

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In conclusion, whether public or private universities, they will provided the best equipments and facilities to their students. The facilities will help the students to live in easier way as their studies go on...

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