QS World University Rankings

by StudyMalaysia.com on June 14, 2018 | Top Stories

QS World University Rankings - StudyMalaysia.com

Discover the world’s top universities this year ranked by QS World University Rankings® 2019. There are some pleasant surprises for Malaysia this year!

Released on 7 June 2018, the results for the QS World University Rankings® 2018 includes 1,000 universities from 85 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 Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
University of Chicago, United States
UCL (University College London), United Kingdom

The top 10 players remain the same as the previous year with the top four positions unchanged. Oxford overtakes Cambridge for the very first time while ETH Zurich jumps from 10th to 7th.

In Malaysia, a total of 13 universities were ranked this year with Universiti Malaya emerging at 87th, its highest ever rank. Most of the other universities showed a marked improvement in their rankings from the previous year; USM had the biggest jump from a ranking of 264 to 207.

Featured for the first time in the QS World University Rankings are UCSI University, Taylor’s University, Universiti Tenaga Nasional and Multimedia University. Appearing at #481, UCSI University is the highest ranked private university in Malaysia.

2019 ranking	2018 ranking	2017 ranking	University
=87	=114	=133	Universiti Malaya (UM)
=184	=230	=302	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
202	229	270	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
207	=264	=330	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
228	253	=288	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
481	-	-	UCSI University
521-530	601-650	601-650	Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Petronas)
601-650	-	-	Taylor’s University
601-650	701-750	701+	Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
651-700	701-750	601-650	International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
701-750	-	-	Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
751-800	751-800	701+	Universiti Teknologi MARA – UiTM
801-1000	-	-	Multimedia University (MMU)