Sunway Education Archive

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO’s journey to build Sunway College was rooted back in 1986.

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO delivering his speech during the official opening of Sunway College, Petaling Jaya on 25 July 1987

First Sunway College Board of Governors Meeting on 15 February 1988. The chairman Tun Hussein Onn (seated) with (standing from the left) Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO, Professor Norman C. Greenberg, Assoc. Professor Gerald Tan, Professor Robert Smith, Professor Alan Ponter, Professor Malcom Ian Logan and Dr. Kenneth J. R. Edward

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO with Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tan Sri Muhammad bin Muhammad Taib, Dato’ Lokman Musa and Dato’ Musa Hitam during the Sunway College groundbreaking ceremony on 9 March 1991

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia and Dato’ Musa Hitam, Chairman of Sunway College during the official opening of Sunway College in Bandar Sunway on 29 April 1993

Establishment of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI) in 1993. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at ASLI’s World Leadership Conference in 1994

Sunway TES was established on 14 July 1994. It was earlier known as “Sunway College Financial Courses Division”

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO, alongside the then Education Minister, Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Dato’ Haji Omar Ong Yoke Lin, President of the Sunway College Trust and Tan Sri Datuk Seri Razman Hashim at the launch of the Trust on 13 November 1997

Sunway College's first joint convocation ceremony on 30 March 2002

Establishment of Sunway College Ipoh on 28 February 2004

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO receiving the approval letter for University College status from Dato' Shafie bin Haji Mohd Salleh, Higher Education Minister on 14 August 2004

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO with Dato' Ir. Steve Chong Yoon On, Dato’ Dr. Lee Weng Keng, Dato' Fu Ah Kiow and Dato' Ir. Haji Mohd Dom Sentanu during the Sunway College Johor Bahru groundbreaking ceremony on 23 August 2004

Signing ceremony of an affiliation agreement between Sunway University College and Lancaster University on 18 September 2006.

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO was officially installed as Sunway University College's first Foundation Chancellor on 19 September 2006.

Sunway University College's first graduation ceremony was held on 5 May 2007.

Official opening ceremony of Sunway College Johor Bahru by Datuk Ong Tee Keat, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, on 4 December 2007.

Soft launch of Sunway International School by His Excellency David G. Summers, Canadian High Commissioner to Malaysia, on 30 October 2007.

Sunway University College (formerly Sunway College) celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2007.

Launch of Sunway College Kuching on 18 January 2008.

Launch of Jeffrey Cheah Foundation by the Prime Minister of Malaysia on 18 March 2010.

Signing ceremony between Sunway University College and Le Cordon Bleu for the establishment of the Sunway Le Cordon Bleu Institute.

The official letter approving the upgrade from a university college to a university was presented on 16 December 2010.

Groundbreaking ceremony of the new Sunway University building on 20 January 2012.

Sunway Education Group's 25th anniversary celebration during the staff appreciation dinner on 5 October 2012.

Establishment of The Jeffrey Cheah Professorship at Harvard University on 20 August 2013.

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO was conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by Lancaster University on 11 October 2013.

Establishment of Sunway International School Iskandar Puteri (Johor Bahru) campus on 11 December 2013.

Launch of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia (JCI) on 18 March 2014.

Jeffrey Cheah Foundation established academic ties with Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, on 15 November 2014.

The Jeffrey Cheah Foundation signed a statement of intent with the University of Oxford on 16 December 2014.

Sunway University new building housewarming celebration was officiated on 5 March 2015.

Signing ceremony of an agreement with Brasenose College, University of Oxford, on 15 December 2015.

Launch of Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development on 9 December 2016.

Official opening ceremony of Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs) on 4 May 2017.

Sunway celebrated its 30th anniversary on 25 July 2017.

Establishment of the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge University Biomedical Campus, in 2017.

Launch of Sunway University Press on 8 January 2018.

Partnership agreement signed between University of California, Berkeley and Sunway University on 21 August 2018.

Establishment of the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge University Biomedical Campus, in 2018.

Launch of Sunway College @ Velocity on 23 March 2019.

Launch of Future Cities Research Centre (FCRC) on 25 July 2019.

Sunway TES celebrated its 25th anniversary on 7 September 2019.

Launch of 42 Kuala Lumpur on 23 July 2020.

Jeffrey Cheah Foundation signed a Gift Memorandum with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 8 October 2020.

Establishment of Sunway Institute for Global Strategy & Competitiveness (IGSC) at Sunway University in 2021.

Establishment of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health (SCPH) and Sunway Institute for Global Strategy & Competitiveness (IGSC) at Sunway University in 2021.

The SDG Academy established a new office in Sunway University in September 2021.

Celebration of 15 years of the Sunway University-Lancaster University partnership on 4 July 2022.

Launch of the Asia Headquarters of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN Asia) on 17 November 2022.

Sunway International School Sunway City Kuala Lumpur campus moved to its new campus in USJ 1, Subang Jaya, on 22 February 2023.

Announcement of a partnership between Sunway University and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) on 29 April 2024 to establish the Sunway University Medical Doctor programme.

Celebration of 30 years of partnership between Sunway College and Victoria University on 1 June 2024.

Launch of Sunway TES College (Johor Bahru) on 8 June 2024.

Celebration of Sunway TES 30th anniversary on 7 September 2024.

Sunway Group Founder and Chairman was conferred an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in October 2024.

Launch of Sir Jeffrey Cheah Sunway Medical School on 7 May 2025.

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah KBE, AO was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in September 2025.