More Malaysian universities make it to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17

by on October 3, 2016 | Top Stories, University Rankings

In the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17 which was released on 21 September 2016, seven Malaysian public universities made it to the list which ranked 980 universities around the world.

Out of the seven universities, two were ranked for the first time.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17
Institution	2016-17 Rankings	2015-16 Rankings
University Kebangsaan Malaysia	601-800	601-800
Universiti Putra Malaysia	601-800	601-800
Universiti Sains Malaysia	601-800	601-800
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	601-800	401-500
Universiti Teknologi Petronas	601-800	Not ranked
Universiti Teknologi Mara	801+	601-800
Universiti Utara Malaysia	801+	Not ranked

Source: Times Higher Education

The top 10 universities are:

2016-17 rank	2015-16 rank	Institution	Country
1	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	1	California Institute of Technology	United States
3	3	Stanford University	United States
4	4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	6	Harvard University	United States
7	7	Princeton University	United States
8	8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
9	9	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
=10	13	University of California, Berkeley	United States
=10	10	University of Chicago	United States

In Asia, the top university is the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 24th place (up from 26th). Hong Kong, Mainland China and South Korea take five, four and four places in the top 200 respectively.

Overall, 289 Asian universities from 24 countries make the overall list of 980 institutions and an elite group of 19 are in the top 200, up from 15 last year.

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