It was founded on April 1st, 1986, by the first and current Chancellor of the school Paul Chan Tuck Hong and his wife Chan-Low Kam Yoke.

[2] The Subang 2 campus, which was designed by GDP Architect who also won the PAM Awards 2017 in the category of Education (Commendation).

[3] HELP University has 6 academic faculties, a Graduate School, a Centre for Continuing Professional Development, and an Institute for Crime and Criminology.

The 8 categories are Teaching, Internationalisation, Employability, Academic Development, Facilities, Social Responsibility, Inclusiveness, and Programme Strength for its Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

[12][13] HELP University was rated 6 Stars for Human Resource Management, Language Studies, Education, Banking, Psychology, Mathematics and Statistics, Counselling and Law by Talentbank in the National Graduate Employability Index.