Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Rankings 2025
- UKM Ranking Highlights
- UKM University Ranking
- UKM US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- UKM QS Ranking 2025
- UKM THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- UKM Course Ranking
UKMRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated B++ by Shiksha Grading, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is also rated A++ for LL.M.. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia courses are in the range of A++ and C+ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ranks #138, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #159 in 2024. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia also ranks #401 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #601 in 2023.
Check out more details on Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ranking in the below content.
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UKMUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Global Universities | 616 | 593 | 540 |
UKMQS Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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World University | 129 | 159 | 138 |
Accounting and Finance | 201 | 151 | – / – |
Architecture and Built Environment | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Biological Sciences | 301 | 351 | – / – |
Communication and Media Studies | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Engineering and Technology | 206 | 173 | – / – |
Law and Legal Studies | 201 | 201 | – / – |
Mathematics | 251 | 201 | – / – |
Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 201 | 151 | – / – |
Medicine | 251 | 251 | – / – |
Pharmacy and Pharmacology | 151 | 101 | – / – |
Physics and Astronomy | 351 | 301 | – / – |
UKMTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
University | 601 | 601 | 401 |
Arts and Humanities | 251 | 251 | 251 |
Clinical and Health | 251 | 301 | 401 |
Engineering | 501 | 401 | 251 |
Law | – / – | – / – | 126 |
Life Sciences | 601 | 801 | 601 |
PG Business and Economics | 501 | 501 | 301 |
PG Computer Science | 501 | 401 | 301 |
Psychology | – / – | 501 | 401 |
UKMCourse Ranking
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ranks well for its Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Accounting & Finance, Law, and Arts & Humanities courses. In the previous years, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has been ranked among the top universities in the world for Pharmacy & Pharmacology by QS. As per the QS, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ranks at #101 in 2024 for its Pharmacy & Pharmacology courses. In 2023, this ranking stood at #151. Also, for QS Accounting & Finance raking category, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ranks at #151 position in 2024. Additionally, in THE 2024 ranking, the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is ranked #126 for Law.
Apart from the global ranking bodies, Shiksha has also graded Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia streams, such as Law, Medicine & Health Sciences, and Engineering with A++, A, and B++ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
More details around Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia courses and subject rankings are detailed in the below article.
LL.M.
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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QS - Law and Legal Studies | 201 | 201 | 201 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - Law | - | - | 126 |
M.A.
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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QS - Sociology | 251 | - | - |
QS - Communication and Media Studies | 151 | 151 | 151 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | 251 | 251 | 251 |
M.Arch
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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QS - Architecture and Built Environment | 151 | 151 | 151 |
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