UiTM UNICORN SCHOLAR PROGRAM or better known as UiTM USP, is one of UiTM's Elite programs specially designed to produce students who excel academically, improve students' entrepreneurial competence and provide employment and business opportunities among UiTM students.
This program has opened up great opportunities for 30 UiTM students who have been selected to practice entrepreneurship in a real business context. This opportunity will also give students experience where it will increase practical knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship and increase self-confidence to open their own business during or after graduating. This is in line with KPT's goal to empower the entrepreneurship agenda at the University.

UiTM Unicorn Scholar Program (Entrepreneurship), or previously known as the Chancellor Scholar Program has received approval from the University Executive Council (MEU) No. 02/2020 on January 15, 2020. MASMED has been held responsible as an executor to run this elite program.
This program has received an injection of funds from the Education Excellence Fund under the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic and International Affairs. This program has received full support from UiTM Senior Management.
The objective of this program is to enhance the entrepreneurial culture at UiTM and establish smart partnerships between the university and industry to meet the country's aspirations in producing holistic graduates and increase the number of graduates who choose entrepreneurship as a career.
This opportunity will also give experience to students who are involved in improving practical knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship as well as increasing self-confidence to open their own business during or after graduating. This is in line with the goal of empowering the entrepreneurship agenda at the university.

Collaboration with real entrepreneurs is seen to be able to open up opportunities for student entrepreneurs to create an ecosystem of support for each other to ensure the sustainability of their business.
The UiTM USP program has also gained the trust of the Ministry of Higher Education (Entrepreneurship Unit, Coordination & Policy Research Division), and collaboration with industry practitioners such as Alumni UiTM Business Network (Alumni Biznet), Malaysia Global Innovation & Creativity (MaGIC) and Women Leadership Foundation ( WLF).
The 30 students selected in this program are individuals who have a high academic level and are running their own business or have a business idea that can be highlighted. In line with the term "unicorn" itself, the selection of students is done through a screening stage that includes a "Video Pitching" session, a personality test and the preparation of a business plan to ensure that the selected students are high quality students.
Among the impacts of this program is the establishment of 30 companies that are registered under the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) and are able to increase the minimum sales revenue by 10 percent. In addition, students are also qualified to become business coaches and further create job opportunities for the community.
Students also have the opportunity to get an injection of business funds from investors - capital investors. This program is able to completely change the entrepreneurial landscape of UiTM in producing graduates who are excellent leaders and have a high entrepreneurial spirit to become 'captains of industry' in the future.


The Pre-Launch Program was officiated by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, YB Datuk Mansor Othman. He also presented certificates to UiTM Unicorn Scholar Program (USP) participants at UiTM Shah Alam on 19 March 2021.

The UiTM Unicorn Scholar Program (UiTM USP) was scheduled to start in July 2020 but has been postponed to 2021 due to the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic that is attacking the world and the government has announced the Movement Control Order for the first time starting on 18 March 2020.
With some relaxation announced by the government regarding the Movement Control Order at the end of 2020, a series of meetings by the program committee were conducted and finally agreed to hold the program starting in early 2021. On March 18, 2021, UiTM USP was inaugurated by Yang Berhormat Dato' Mansor Hj. Othman, Deputy Minister of Higher Education.
This program is rescheduled to run for one year, starting from March 2021 until February 2022 by going through several phases of the program, namely the training phase, the guidance phase, the business pitching phase, and the monitoring phase.
The scheduled physical training phase took place immediately after the pre-launch ceremony was completed on 19 March 2021. In April 2021 on the advice of the Shah Alam Disaster Operations Committee (JOBSA) this program was postponed due to the increased spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.
However, the increasingly alarming outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in April 2021 has also forced the physical training phase of this program to be rescheduled to a new date. The government has once again announced the Movement Control Order (MCO 3.0) throughout the country starting on 12 May 2021 until 7 June 2021.
Taking into account the increasingly worrying situation of the spread of Covid-19 and there are no signs to enable the training phase to be carried out physically, the UiTM USP program committee has decided to conduct the training phase of this program online.

Deputy Secretary General (Policy) Ministry of Higher Education (KPT), YBhg. Dato' Dr. Megat Sany Megat Ahmad Supian completed the Graduation Ceremony of the Unicorn Scholar Program (USP) organized by the Malaysian SME Development and Entrepreneurship Academy (MASMED) of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) here yesterday.

The exclusive program to empower UiTM's student entrepreneurship agenda has been offered to students from all its campuses who are eligible and meet the academic, personality and leadership criteria to enable them to be trained as entrepreneurs who are relevant to the current market.

A total of 30 students have gone through four (4) phases of training from July 2021 to September 2022 with only 17 of them successfully achieving the assessment that has been set and have received their respective certificates that have been presented by YBhg. Dato' Dr. Megat Sany in yesterday's ceremony.

In the program, Arliya Munif, UiTM graduate and owner of Araliya Resources company was crowned as the Best Participant and took home the first place prize amounting to RM2,000.00.

In his speech, he hoped that the graduates of this program will make use of the knowledge and skills they have acquired and be able to become a group with a high attitude and leadership, have a creative and innovative entrepreneurial mind and be able to be competitive at the industrial and international level while being actively involved in the creation national jobs and talent.