PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong is urging Universiti Malaya (UM) to disclose any information it has that disproves the MCA president’s claims of inequality in the varsity’s dual admissions process.

This was after UM vice-chancellor Professor Datuk Seri Dr Noor Azuan Abu Osman claimed that Dr Wee’s allegations were inaccurate.

“If you say I do not have the accurate data, you are the one in power to present the accurate data. It is as simple as that,” he said in a Facebook video post on Monday (June 30) adding that the vice-chancellor did not address his question.

Dr Wee said his data was obtained from the UM annual report, which stated that the Unit Pusat Universiti (UPUOnline) programme began in 2018.

He pointed to the report which had a graph on how the intake of students is done and the numbers involved.

“This is my main source from… UM’s own internal source which is an open report,” he said, adding this included a parliamentary reply from the Higher Education Minister stating there was a large intake of students for four critical courses.

He added that he had ‘conclusive evidence’ of a student with excellent academic results who was denied admission under UPUOnline despite appeals but was later offered the same Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) seat via the Satu (open channel) route for a much higher fee.

He noted that fees for MBBS via the Satu (open channel) route for the five-year course had drastically increased to about RM500,000 for the 2025/2026 intake from RM300,000 last year.

The MBBS course only costs about RM15,000 annually for five academic years if done through the UPUOnline process, he added.

On Noor Azuan’ statement that both processes were based on meritocracy Dr Wee questioned the inequality of a deserving student who is denied entry under one system but offered entry via another system but at a much higher fee.

“Why should there be a difference between Satu and UPUOnline?” he asked.

Dr Wee challenged university authorities to provide a clear answer and not resort to ‘flowery words’ or use the Official Secrets Act to avoid responding.

MCA had recently called for the 2025/2026 MBBS intake through Satu route to be suspended immediately while urging the government to set up an RCI to conduct a thorough and transparent review of public university admission systems.

Last Friday, Noor Azuan Abu dismissed MCA’s concerns as “misleading”, saying that the dual channel approach was a strategic response for growing demand for limited placements in critical programmes such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.