Multimedia University is Malaysia's first private university. It has two campuses with one in Cyberjaya and another in Melaka. The distance between the two campuses are approximately 150 kilometers, via the North South Expressway. In 1994, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), the largest telecommunications company in Malaysia established the Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (ITTM) in Taiping, Perak. The first campus was Telekom Malaysia Berhad's former northern region office where the first batch of 42 students were selected to undergo an experimental 2-year telecommunication engineering diploma program. With the excellent academic success of the 1st and 2nd batch, ITTM was rewarded the first private university status in Malaysia. With the university status in 1996, ITTM renamed itself to Universiti Telekom. Two campuses were established, one in its original location in Taiping, Perak and the other in Melaka. The Melaka campus was set up in 1997 and is located in the Ayer Keroh district, the initial setting up of the campus involved converting an old building belonging to the Telekom Malaysia Berhad's southern region office.