UNITAR, Malaysia's first virtual University, was launched with the unique aim of providing distance education using state of the art technologies. UNITAR selected NIIT to jump start the content creation for the University.

NIIT partnered with UNITAR and helped develop over 100 hours of instructional material for the students of Bachelor Degree programs for their first intake at the time of the launch of the University. NIIT also licensed the Vista Multimedia engine for developing future multimedia learning content.