The list of top 200 universities in the world for the year 2007has been released two days back by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) based on the survey conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd (QS). Looks like Malaysian Universities are in a free fall state. Sad story that none of our Malaysian Universities able to climb up the ladders to reserve a place for themselves in the list of top 200. Universiti Malaya (UM) is the highest rank Malaysian Universiti at 246, followed by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) at 307.
The top 100 sees the number of Asian universities increase to 13 compared to 12 on 2006. At the forefront of Asian universities are the University of Tokyo and the University of Hong Kong at 17th and 18th place respectively. Two Singapore universities managed to remain in the top 100 list - National University of Singapore (NUS) was ranked 33 and Nanyang Techological University (NTU) was at 69.
Universities of UK and US are still dominating the top 10 positions. Harvard University reigns as top dog in the world university in the top 50 ranking. Oxford and Yale retain the top four positions for the second year. University College London and Chicago join the top 10 for the first time. Cape Town at 200 is first ever African institution in the Rankings.
Perhaps you may want to check out HERE for the list of top 200 universities in the world for the year 2007.
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