More Top 100 University Rankings

The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has released more faculty rankings in a prelude to the full Top 200 universities of the world rankings list. The latest list ranks the faculties of Biomedicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. This is in addition to the Top 100 universities in Science and Technology blogged here.

I’ve taken the liberty to display the top 20 universities of each faculty for display here. (And guess what, University Malaya is respectably featured!) This information may be useful for those interested in finding the top universities for the relevant subject faculties they are interested in.

The Top 20 Biomedicine Universities


The Top 20 Social Science Universities


The Top 20 Arts and Humanities Universities


Interestingly enough, University Malaya has been ranked very credibly in the above surveys, which is conducted by a company - - using a global peer review methodology. UM did not appear in any of the Top 100 tables for the above faculties (only Top 50 available for Arts & Humanities) in 2004. Its rankings however, improved tremendously to 45th for Arts & Humanities, 83rd in Social Sciences and an impressive 82nd for Biomedicine.

The company in which University Malaya is keeping is shown here –

Arts & Humanities


Social Sciences


Biomedicine


We are always keen to compare ourselves with our cousins down south, and for Arts & Humanities, we managed to “beat” National University of Singapore which was placed 56th, down from 17th the year before.

The other immediate observation I can make is that while the earlier 2004 Top 200 Universities which saw significant participation of international universities out of the United States (US) and Europe compared to other ranking tables such as that compiled by the Shanghai JiaoTung University, the recent faculty tables saw an even heavier presence of these ‘international universities’, particularly those from Latin America. I’m not certain if there has been a concerted efforted as part of the survey to provide greater weightage to non-US/Europe universities.

The Southeast Asian (besides Malaysia and Singapore) universities which have established their presence in the Top 100s are:

• Gadjah Mada Unversity, Indonesia (56th Arts & Humanities)
• Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (82nd BioMedicine, 46th Social Sciences)

From the look of things, University Malaya is poised to perform credibly again in the upcoming Top 200 World University Rankings Table.