40-year partnership connects Malaysian students, Nebraska U

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Official response and confirmed impact

A 40-year partnership between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and INTI International University and Colleges created a pathway for students from Malaysia to come to Nebraska to earn their undergraduate degrees.

Her parents, Yoke Hua Ling and Chiat Ley Ong, met at Nebraska while her mother took English classes and her father attended through the INTI partnership.

Yoke Hua graduated in 1997 and the two stayed in touch, got married and, this fall, Xing Yi followed their path from INTI to Nebraska.

“I decided to come to Nebraska because it is where my parents met, but I also wanted to challenge myself to be in a totally different environment and experience the culture and everything,” said Ling, a sophomore management major from Sitiawan, a small town in Perak, Malaysia.

“I feel like it will be fun and exciting, which it is.”

Over the past four decades, the Nebraska-INTI partnership has connected thousands of Malaysian students with a Nebraska education.

Incident background

For Xing Yi Ling, the connection between Malaysia and Nebraska was much more than academic. It was part of her family’s legacy.