UTAR Council Chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik said that UTAR expected to enrol 9,000 students a year later and 15,000 students in 2005.

At present, some 3,689 students were studying at the university's temporary campus in Petaling Jaya and an extension building that was being set up would take in another 500 students.

Datuk Seri Dr Ling also announced that the Government had given the nod for the university's medical faculty to be set up at a hospital in Johor Baru.