Bumiputras compose an overwhelming majority of entrants to the matriculation programme.
In practice significantly more Bumiputra enter the matriculation program, even after normalizing for ethnic demographics.
Students that are offered the matriculation programme will be posted to several Matriculation Colleges within Malaysia.
The school also has an early matriculation program, called the Partnership Plan, with several undergraduate institutions.
From 1995 until May 2000, the school has been chosen to provide a matriculation programme for Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
Since its inception in the 1980s, the matriculation programme was handled by respective local universities.
The first matriculation programme started in 1999.
The parent has to take at least six credits concurrently and be enrolled in a matriculation program, Mr. Jaffe said.
The other is a one-year matriculation programme conducted by the Ministry of Education.
Having been introduced after the abolishment of a racial-quota-based admission into universities, the matriculation programme continues the role of its predecessor, albeit in modified form.
