The university was launched as a joint initiative between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Government of Malaysia on March 22, 2011.
[3] MISI admitted its first batch of graduate students for its flagship 10-month, residential Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program.
Organizations such as InvestKL[4] considered MISI to be a partner for attracting foreign companies to invest in the Greater Kuala Lumpur region.
[5] In the first ten years, nearly 50 multinational, regional, and local companies partnered with MISI for applied research projects and executive education in supply chain management and procurement.
Shah Alam is an industrial city, located about 40 minutes from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.