Top for foreign exchange programmes

Timely motivation: Prof Chan (left) and Prof Williams are ready to take the varsity to greater heights.

HELP University has been ranked No.1 among 650 universities in Asia for outbound student exchange programmes in the globally recognised Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking: Asia 2021.

This ranking is awarded for world-class international student exchange programmes.

The grouping of 650 Asian universities includes top institutions in Singapore, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Korea, and Japan.

Outbound student exchange programmes involve hundreds of HELP students who spend valuable study time with the varsity’s international partners around the world including in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Many of these students have earned prestigious scholarships to help them in their studies overseas.

HELP University is also ranked among the top 50 universities in Asia for international students as their preferred choice for specialist disciplines, including their postgraduate programmes in psychology and business and the undergraduate programmes in law and data analytics.

It sits at the 100th rank for inbound student exchange programmes for postgraduate courses and student mobility programmes, and 151 in Asia for international faculty.

The first timer in the QS World University Ranking: Asia ranked in the 401-450 category overall, placing it in the top 60% of Asian universities.

Expressing his delight at this achievement, HELP University president and vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Paul Chan said the ranking was a timely motivation for everyone at HELP and a strong catalyst for the varsity to excel.

“We shall do better in the year ahead. I am confident we shall rise higher in the overall ranking.

“We are now implementing our digital transformation programme to enhance the quality of our leadership and management, academic practices, delivery pedagogy and research output, ” he added.

Dr Chan congratulated and thanked project advisor Prof Geoffrey Williams, group vice-president (international marketing and franchise) Fiona Woo, and management information systems director Liz Quah for their contributions.

Woo said the recognition powers the varsity’s global presence and its internationalisation effort.

“There are many overtures from international institutions for collaboration, and we are actively exploring disruptive ways to expand our global market.”