FAATUM is an umbrella organization for university alumni associations with 39 branches in 13 states and 12 universities. FAATUM's president Law Yang-ket explains that with the exception of medicine and pharmacology, degrees from Taiwanese universities are not recognized by the Malaysian government. After two or three decades of hard work, however, Malaysia has seen many alumni from Taiwan universities make their mark in their fields It hasn't always been so.
留台聯總是 13 個州和 12 個大學同學會共 39 個分會的聯合組織，會長劉天吉表示，台灣的大學學歷除了醫學和藥學外，都不受馬來西亞政府承認，但留台人經過二、三十年努力，各領域都有不少傑出人才嶄露頭角。