13 Malaysian universities in Times’ world ranking


UNIVERSITI Malaya (UM) is the third best performer in Asean in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020 released on Thursday.

UM which is ranked in the 301-350 band, is the top Malaysian institution.The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University top the rankings in Asean and are ranked 25th and in joint 48th place with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign respectively.

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