History
The university was officially incorporated on 24 December 1992. With about 30 academic staff, the University opened its doors to the first batch of 118 students on 8 August 1993. The students were registered in the two pioneering faculties, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Resource Sciences and Technology.
The first ever campus election was held on 24 November 1993 and the cabinet members of the first UNIMAS Student Representative Council was officially installed on 29 November 1993. Throughout the years, the number of seats have changed due to the changing number of faculties the student represented. The first batch of the UNIMAS Student Representative Council has a total of eight cabinet members and the current cabinet has twelve members - the smallest number among all 20 Student Representative Councils from Malaysian public universities.
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