Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Sunway-Lancaster partnership is one of the most successful transnational higher educational partnerships in the world.
Now boasting over 8,000 alumni, the partnership has grown from humble beginnings, with just six students in the first graduating cohort in 2008 - a journey that in many ways parallels that of Sunway City itself, which has grown from a wasteland to the thriving city it is today. This was one of the key factors in Lancaster University – consistently ranked in the top 10 UK universities and the top 140 globally – being named as International University of the Year by the Times and the Sunday Times Good University Guide in 2020.
“In 2012 our two universities signed a new memorandum, extending not just the partnership duration but also greatly expanding its nature to include postgraduate programmes and joint research collaborations. Buoyed by the successes of the partnership, a new agreement was signed in 2017, extending the partnership for a further 10 years. This also further extended the range of collaborations and saw the establishment of a joint research institute, the Future Cities Research Institute.