QS World University Rankings

by StudyMalaysia.com on June 22, 2017 | Top Stories

The results for the QS World University Rankings® 2018 has just been released. This latest rankings includes nearly 1,000 universities from 84 countries around the world. So which universities made it to the top 10? Here’s the list:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
Stanford University, United States
Harvard University, United States
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
University of Chicago, United States
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

So how did Malaysian universities fare? Nine Malaysian universities were included in the ranking with Universiti Malaya coming out tops at 114. The top five universities all showed tremendous improvement in their rankings from the previous year; UKM had the biggest jump from a ranking of 302 to 230.

2018 ranking	2017 ranking	University
=114	=133	Universiti Malaya (UM)
229	270	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
=230	=302	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
253	=288	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
=264	=330	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
601-650	601-650	Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Petronas)
701-750	601-650	International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
701-750	701+	Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
751-800	701+	Universiti Teknologi MARA - UiTM