What Student Services and Campus Resources Does the University of Malta Website Offer?

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The University of Malta website (um.edu.mt) groups student services into a few clear areas: a current-student portal with tools like eSIMS, VLE, and the My UM app; health, wellness, and harassment support; and practical campus resources such as the campus map, library, and IT support. You reach most of these from the top navigation, which separates content for Current students and Staff from the main Study, About, Research, and Services sections. The exact set of services you can actually use depends on your enrolment status, since some tools require a UM account.

Current students: the main portal and tools

The Current students menu is the starting point for day-to-day study tools. The site lists these entries:

  • Portal – the central entry point for student account access
  • eSIMS – the student information management system
  • VLE – the virtual learning environment for course content
  • My UM app – the university's mobile app
  • UM courses – course information
  • Assessments and WISEflow – assessment-related tools
  • Mail – university email
  • Library – library services
  • Campus map – locating buildings and facilities
  • IT support – technical help
  • Health and wellness and Harassment – support services
  • Help Hub – a general help entry point
  • Jobs in Malta – employment listings

A parallel Staff menu mirrors several of these (Portal, AIMS, eSIMS, SIMS, VLE, WISEflow, Mail, Library, and support links), so if you are staff rather than a student, use that menu instead.

What to expect: clicking a tool such as eSIMS, VLE, or Mail typically takes you to a login-gated system rather than a public page. The website does not state that these are open to the public, so treat them as requiring a UM account unless you are told otherwise.

Health, wellness, and harassment support

Two support areas appear directly in the student navigation:

  • Health and wellness – listed both under Current students and under Services (as the Health and wellness centre)
  • Harassment – listed under Current students, with a related Sexual harassment entry under Services

These are the site's dedicated routes for wellbeing and for reporting or getting help with harassment. The navigation shows where they live, but it does not describe eligibility, opening hours, or how a report is handled — for those details you need to open the pages themselves.

Campus resources: map, library, and IT

Three resources cover most practical, non-academic needs:

Resource Where it appears What it is for
Campus map Current students menu Finding buildings and facilities on campus
Library / Library services Current students menu and Research Library access and research support
IT support Current students menu and Staff Technical help with university systems

The Help Hub sits alongside these as a general support entry point, and Our opening hours appears under Services if you need to check when something is open.

Student life: accommodation and societies

Beyond tools and support, the site addresses student life directly. On the "Starting your journey with us" area, the listed topics include:

  • Student life
  • Accommodation
  • Info for international applicants
  • International opportunities
  • Student societies

So if your question is about where to live, joining a society, or what's available to international students, those are the pages to open. DegreePlus and Micro-credentials also appear under Study, which is relevant if you are looking to add skills or short qualifications alongside your main programme.

How to find things: two reliable routes

  1. Use the top navigation. The menu is split into Study, About, Research, Academic entities, and Services, plus separate Current students and Staff areas. Student services are concentrated in Current students and Services.
  2. Use the search. The site provides a search box ("Enter a search term" / "Submit the search"), and the header notes you can "Hit Enter to Search or Escape to Close." This is the fastest way to jump straight to a named service like eSIMS or the Health and wellness centre.

What the website does not tell you

The navigation confirms that these services and resources exist and where they live, but it does not state costs, login requirements, opening hours, or eligibility for any of them. The site also uses cookies and asks you to accept them to continue, in line with its privacy policy. For anything involving fees, funding, deadlines, or admissions, use the dedicated Fees and funding, Dates and deadlines, and Admissions and advice pages rather than the student-services menus.