Gholamreza Zakersalehi -1

Abstract

Malaysia higher education went through the stage of establishment of first institutions before 1957 when Malaysia gained its independence, and afterward, it has passed through four stages of developments.

The present writing aims to illustrate both qualitative and quantitative aspects of Malaysia higher education developments as one of Iran’s serious competitors in Asia. In the qualitative developments section, the research method is documentary study, and in other sections, the research method is statistical evaluation

The findings show that Malaysia has gained significant achievements especially in developing access capacity and creating equal opportunities through developing two programs named 2010 and 2020

This country, projecting an independent structure named the management department of private higher education in the Ministry of Science, has a great tendency to develop private universities and attract foreign students. Five major policies regarding Malaysia higher education are: increasing academic autonomy, quality promotion, increase in attracting foreign students, reconstructing teacher training and restructuring student admissions

Concerning the quantitative parameters section, we distinguish an increase in capacities and considerable progress in most areas. However, this development was accompanied by some harms and challenges such as the inequality in the ratio of professors to students and the subject of quality assurance