Still unsure on what diploma programme to take?
Join our micro-credential courses and get a taste of the future major that you would like to venture in.
Choose from our list of micro-credential courses below and upon completion, you will be awarded a digital certificate by Sunway College Kuching that contributes credit* towards your academic pathways.
*Subject to meeting entry requirements.
Micro-credentials are short courses that are designed to build professional skills relevant to your career in rapidly growing industries and allow you to pursue further study in a specialised field.
How Do Micro-Credentials Work?
Choose Your Pathway
Programme Structure
Duration (per programme) : 12-16 weeks
Intake : January, April, July, October
Credits (per programme) : 3
Learn Flexibly
Choose from 1 to 4 courses per intake, and pick whichever topics interest you.
Try our Programmes
Get a glimpse of our diploma programmes and see what it’s like to be a full-time Sunway student.
Earn recognised Certification
Upon programme completion, our micro-credential courses reward you with certification as part of your professional development.
Get Credit Exemptions
Upon completion of courses, you will earn credit exemptions from our diploma programmes, with the condition that you meet the programme’s entry requirements.
Introductory Certificate to Financial Accounting
To equip students with the knowledge of business process and the transactions involved in daily operations as well as recording of the transactions.
Intermediate Certificate to Financial Accounting
To equip students with knowledge and understanding of the principles and concepts relating to financial records and preparation of final accounts.
Advanced Certificate to Financial Accounting
The students will not only be able to understand and prepare the basic financial statements, the students will also be able to interpret and analyse the results for decision making.
Introductory Certificate to Cost and Management Accounting
To provide students with the knowledge of basic cost information in order to support business planning and decision-making process.
Intermediate Certificate to Cost and Management Accounting
To provide students with skills in preparing, processing and presenting basic cost information in order to support business planning and decision-making process.
Computerised Accounting Certificate
To provide students with the skills required to work in an accounting role, which required computerized processing and completion of advanced accounting transaction and preparation of end period reports.
Marketing – Consumer Behaviour Certificate
To understand the basic laws and principles of consumer behavior in-order to influence their purchasing decisions.
Introductory Certificate to Marketing
To enable students to understand the fundamental concepts of theories of marketing and how they may be applied to the marketplace in a modern and dynamic environment.
Introductory Certificate to Management
To expose students to the theories of management, organizational theory, and the practice of management in contemporary organizations from a conceptual, analytical, and pragmatic perspective. The course is a study of how to be better managers and aims at developing skills and knowledge needed to successfully manage an organization.
Entrepreneurship Certificate
To provide students with the knowledge that needed if they intend to startup their own business or to be involved in positions such as business development, management consulting, or as an entrepreneurial manager.
Software Applications Certificate
To equip students with the computer skills that they will need in their future workplace in order to produce professional-looking documents, analyzing data by using formulae in Microsoft Excel, Managing Data by using Microsoft Access, and to do presentation with Microsoft Powerpoint.
Human Resource Management Certificate
To help the students to understand the roles, function and application of human resource management within an organization.
English for Specific Purpose – Academic English 1
To equip students with English language and academic skills. This will enable students to express their ideas in well-constructed sentences and improve academic writing skills, using skimming and scanning skills for reading of academic texts; be able to understand lectures and take effective notes; improve their accuracy and understanding of text; be more confident in using the language in their oral communications.
English for Specific Purpose – Academic English 2
To provide students with writing for academic purposes skills to meet the demands of university courses.
English for Specific Purpose – Business Communication
To help the students to be able to communicate more effectively with less time and effort.
Introductory Certificate to Financial Accounting
To equip students with the knowledge of business process and the transactions involved in daily operations as well as recording of the transactions.
Introductory Certificate to Marketing
To enable students to understand the fundamental concepts of theories of marketing and how they may be applied to the marketplace in a modern and dynamic environment.
Introductory Certificate to Management
To expose students to the theories of management, organizational theory, and the practice of management in contemporary organizations from a conceptual, analytical, and pragmatic perspective. The course is a study of how to be better managers and aims at developing skills and knowledge needed to successfully manage an organization.
Entrepreneurship Certificate
To provide students with the knowledge that needed if they intend to startup their own business or to be involved in positions such as business development, management consulting, or as an entrepreneurial manager.
Software Applications Certificate
To equip students with the computer skills that they will need in their future workplace in order to produce professional-looking documents, analyzing data by using formulae in Microsoft Excel, Managing Data by using Microsoft Access, and to do presentation with Microsoft Powerpoint.
Human Resource Management Certificate
To help the students to understand the roles, functions and application of human resource management within an organization.
Marketing – Consumer Behaviour Certificate
To understand the basic laws and principles of consumer behavior in order to influence their purchasing decisions.
English for Specific Purpose – Academic English 1
To equip students with English language and academic skills. This will enable students to express their ideas in well-constructed sentences and improve academic writing skills, using skimming and scanning skills for reading of academic texts; be able to understand lectures and take effective notes; improve their accuracy and understanding of text; be more confident in using the language in their oral communications.
English for Specific Purpose – Academic English 2
To provide students with writing for academic purposes skills to meet the demands of university courses.
English for Specific Purpose – Business Communication
To help the students to be able to communicate more effectively with less time and effort.
Marketing – Retail Marketing Certificate
To introduce students to the fundamental concepts of business law. This course also presents the basis and structure of Malaysian Legal System and introduces relevant areas of business regulations.
1. Do the minimum entry requirements for academic programmes apply to MCs from accredited programmes?
No formal entry requirements to enrol in an MC. However, if the learners want to use the MC/MCs to gain an award/qualification, then he/she must meet the minimum qualification before the award.
2. Must the MCs be offered as online courses?
No. MCs can be offered it as conventional/traditional course or ODL or a combination.
3. Can a HEP offer bundles of the academic programmes as a series of MCs to working adults?
That is precisely the objective – to unbundle academic programmes and offer to non-traditional learners.
4. Can these MCs be recognised i.e. given credits if these learners enrol in academic programmes?
Yes, recognition can be given. The guideline describes different MC conditions and the recognition that can be provided.
