It's All About you

I came across this from our famous MP Blog. The info came from the Webometrics Ranking of World University, which ranks the top 3000 university in the world and yes, the number you’ll see, much like the “nombor empat ekor” or 4D number, is our Malaysia University ranking.

According to Webometrics, the top 10 universities are the ivy league - MIT, then Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Penn State Univ, Michigan, Cornell, Illinous Urbana Champaign, Wisconsin Madison, Texas Austin then Univ of Washington. The top in the list, for Asia’s best University, now goes to National University of Singapore (NUS), followed by National Taiwan University (NTU), then Keio University and Tokyo University.

Looking back at our South East Asia (SEA) Ranking, in the first place is of course NUS, then NTU, then from number 3 until 9 and number 11 are all Thai Univ. RR is Regional Ranking and WR is World Ranking. USM is on the 13th place on SEA Univ ranking, even lagged behind the Indon Univ ITB and Gadjah Mada… well, this really surprised me. We are so lagged behind… in terms of Malaysian Ranking, it’s USM that makes it to the top, then followed by UTM, MMU, UPM then only comes UM…. this surprised me also… since when UM becomes like this? UM is 282 place lagged behind USM… wow! USM sure had made much progress then… But never mind, this ranking in Malaysia nobody will care. So, you are number one, so what? What normally will happen is that they would say this ranking is “not suitable” for Malaysia situation…. and we might still have the best university in the region. See! we are just a few places behind Thailand University…. and yeah, we still have the best university among the Islamic Countries…. yeah, we are still great. Malaysia Boleh!!!

One thing also… where are all the University College at Malaysia in the ranking? OK OK… I know now it’s being termed as University, but there’s no sign of any of them, not even shadows. Hopefully one day, in the year 2013, my univ will also be in the list of World Class University (WCU)… hopefully without the lottery 4d number and upgraded to the 1+3D ones. God Bless!