The importance of higher education for a developing country such as Malaysia, there is still paucity- to the researcher's limited knowledge. Internal environment variable in higher education are of a particular importance for achieving high performance, especially when recognizing that such organizational variables entails very important sub- variables. In the other hand the top management support will help the university to achieve the objective help university to have good profile and good reputation this lead to increase the students. Therefore, this study intending to investigate the moderating top management support affects relationship between internal environment and Malaysian universities performance. Therefore, data will also be collected from academicians’ and scholars from the Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN), which brings together four technology universities' in Malaysia, University Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP), Technical University of Malaysia Malacca (UTEM), University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), and University of Pahang Malaysia (UMP). More specifically, academicians and scholars at MTUN universities in Malaysia are the main respondents to this study because their experience in the management field has made them more familiar with risk management, and the researcher will be able to obtain accurate data for excellent results.

Keywords: Moderator, Top Management Support, Performance, Academicians, Researchers, Malaysia, UTHM, UTEM, UMP, UNIMAP