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Universiti Sains Malaysia Rankings 2025
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- USM Ranking Highlights
- USM University Ranking
- USM US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- USM QS Ranking 2025
- USM THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- USM Course Ranking
USMRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Universiti Sains Malaysia has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Universiti Sains 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 Sains Malaysia is also rated A for MIM. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Universiti Sains 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 Sains Malaysia ranks #146, which is declining in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #137 in 2024. Universiti Sains Malaysia also ranks #401 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Universiti Sains Malaysia witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #601 in 2023.
Check out more details on Universiti Sains Malaysia ranking in the below content.
By Shiksha Study AbroadUniversity Ranking
USMUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 525 | 504 | 401 |
USMQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World University | 143 | 137 | 146 |
| Accounting and Finance | – / – | 151 | – / – |
| Architecture and Built Environment | 101 | 101 | – / – |
| Art and Design | – / – | 201 | – / – |
| Biological Sciences | – / – | 251 | – / – |
| Communication and Media Studies | 151 | 201 | – / – |
| Engineering and Technology | 208 | 186 | – / – |
| Law and Legal Studies | – / – | 351 | – / – |
| Mathematics | – / – | 201 | – / – |
| Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | – / – | 201 | – / – |
| Medicine | – / – | 251 | – / – |
| Pharmacy and Pharmacology | – / – | 76 | – / – |
| Physics and Astronomy | – / – | 301 | – / – |
| Sociology | 301 | 251 | – / – |
USMTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 601 | 601 | 401 |
| Arts and Humanities | 301 | 251 | 301 |
| Clinical and Health | 301 | 401 | 401 |
| Engineering | 601 | 601 | 301 |
| Life Sciences | 601 | 601 | 501 |
| PG Business and Economics | 176 | 126 | 151 |
| PG Computer Science | 401 | 301 | 251 |
USMCourse Ranking
As per the Universiti Sains Malaysia subject ranking 2024, many of the university courses are ranked among the top in the world. QS has ranked the Universiti Sains Malaysia at #76 for Pharmacy & Pharmacology. Additionally, it is also ranked #101 for Architecture & Built Environment by QS. THE has also ranked courses offered by Universiti Sains Malaysia as top programs, namely PG Business & Economics, PG Computer Science, Arts & Humanities, and Engineering, etc. The programs offered by Universiti Sains Malaysia are quite popular and are ranked at #151 - 301 by THE in 2024.
In addition to the global ranking bodies, Shiksha has also graded Universiti Sains Malaysia streams, namely Business & Management Studies, Medicine & Health Sciences, and Accounting & Commerce with A++, A, and B++ grades. Due to the availability of multiple rankings online which can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad, Shiksha Study Abroad launched Shiksha Grading. With its launch, students are no longer required to check multiple ranking details to know about the performance of a particular university.
Read on to know more details about Universiti Sains Malaysia courses and subject rankings in the below article.
M.A.
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Sociology | 251 | 301 | 251 |
| QS - Communication and Media Studies | 201 | 151 | 201 |
| QS - Art and Design | 201 | - | 201 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | 301 | 251 | 301 |
M.Arch
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Architecture and Built Environment | 51 | 101 | 101 |
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