My UUM historical place.

Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM ) is the sixth state university was formally established on February 16, 1984. UUM is also the only university designated to specialize the field of management since its inception . Planning the construction of the Sixth University began when the Ministry of Education (now the university is under the Ministry of Higher Education ) is planning to establish a university in the month of August 1983 . On October 19, 1983 of the Cabinet has given formal approval to the project at that time called the

"Sixth University Project", in Kedah. A few months later , the official office of the Sixth University was named Universiti Utara Malaysia was officially opened on February 15, 1984 at Jitra . Four months later , UUM campus moved to Darul Aman in Jitra in June 1984 when the first phase of the project completed . Transfer was done to celebrate the arrival of the inaugural university students by their entry in early July 1984. In the recorded history of UUM, northernmost university started at its temporary campus in Bandar Darul Aman near Jitra and then after six years there, moved to the campus Sintok, about 30 km north of Jitra. Before the establishment of the UUM campus in Sintok Sintok Forest Reserve is 4,000 hectares area gazetted as black as a result of the communist terrorist activities by the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), which comes in southern Thailand. When (CPM) disarm and end their struggles, Sintok area was gazetted for white areas back in December 1988 by former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who is the Minister of State at the time. The move allows the UUM campus started construction Sintok from January 7, 1989.