University of Malaya Rankings 2025
- A++ Shiksha Grade
- 1 Campus
- Estd. 1949
- UM Ranking Highlights
- UM University Ranking
- UM US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- UM QS Ranking 2025
- UM THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- UM ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
- UM Course Ranking
UMRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, University of Malaya has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, University of Malaya stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A++ by Shiksha Grading, University of Malaya is also rated A++ for courses, such as MS, MSN and M.Arch. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the University of Malaya courses are in the range of A++ and B+ 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, University of Malaya ranks #60, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #65 in 2024. University of Malaya also ranks #251 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, University of Malaya witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #351 in 2023.
Check out more details on University of Malaya ranking in the below content.
By Shiksha Study AbroadUniversity Ranking
UMUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 211 | 226 | 281 |
UMQS Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
---|---|---|---|
World University | 70 | 65 | 60 |
Accounting and Finance | 51 | 66 | – / – |
Architecture and Built Environment | 101 | 51 | – / – |
Art and Design | 151 | 51 | – / – |
Biological Sciences | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Communication and Media Studies | 101 | 51 | – / – |
Engineering and Technology | 65 | 62 | – / – |
Law and Legal Studies | 101 | 101 | – / – |
Mathematics | 101 | 138 | – / – |
Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 101 | 115 | – / – |
Medicine | 101 | 118 | – / – |
Nursing | 151 | 101 | – / – |
Performing Arts | – / – | 51 | – / – |
Pharmacy and Pharmacology | 101 | 72 | – / – |
Physics and Astronomy | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Politics | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Sociology | 151 | 151 | – / – |
UMTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
University | 301 | 351 | 251 |
Arts and Humanities | 251 | 251 | 251 |
Clinical and Health | 176 | 301 | 251 |
Engineering | 176 | 176 | 176 |
Life Sciences | 501 | 501 | 401 |
PG Business and Economics | 151 | 151 | 126 |
PG Computer Science | 126 | 126 | 176 |
Psychology | 251 | 301 | 251 |
UMARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
Universities | 301 | 401 | 401 |
Nursing | 201 | 201 | – / – |
Physics | 301 | 301 | – / – |
UMCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded University of Malaya streams, such as Engineering, Mass Communication & Media, and Humanities & Social Sciences with A++ grades, respectively. The availability of multiple rankings on the web 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.
When it comes to global level course rankings of University of Malaya, the Architecture & Built Environment, Art & Design, PG Business & Economics, and Engineering courses of the university rank well in the rankings by QS and THE. Its Architecture & Built Environment program has been ranked at #51 by QS 2024. Additionally, University of Malaya ranks well for Art & Design course as well. According to QS 2024, the Art & Design course ranks at #51 in the 2024, whereas, in 2023, its ranking stood at #151.
In the rankings by THE PG Business & Economics 2024, University of Malaya ranks at #126. Know more about University of Malaya courses and subject rankings in the below article.
M.A.
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
QS - Sociology | 101 | 151 | 151 |
QS - Politics | 101 | 151 | 151 |
QS - Communication and Media Studies | 101 | 101 | 51 |
QS - Art and Design | 151 | 151 | 51 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | 251 | 251 | 251 |
M.Arch
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
QS - Architecture and Built Environment | 51 | 101 | 51 |
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Student Forum
Answered 6 months ago
For the 2024/2025 academic year, the tuition fee for the Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Language and Literature programme at Universiti Malaya is RM29,700 per year. The university rounds up tuition fees to the nearest hundred.
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Beginner-Level 2
Answered 7 months ago
Uni Teknologi Malaysia as well as the University of Malaya are two well-known universities in Malaysia and great study abroad options for students. Listed below is a comparison of the rankings of both the universities, as awarded by the top ranking bodies:
Ranking Body, Category & Year | University of Teknologi Malaysia | University of Malaya |
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QS Rankings - Best Global Universities 2024 | #188 | #65 |
THE - World University Rankings 2024 | #401-500 | #251-300 |
US News & World Report - Best Global University 2023 | #379 | #226 |
Answered 9 months ago
At the University of Malaya, applicants can expect to be notifies via mail once a decision on their application is reached. The process time for all applications typically takes a biut one month. Each application undergoes a thorough review by the admissions board to ensure fair consideration snf ev
Answered 9 months ago
Answered 9 months ago
The University of Malaya’s application cycle for sem 1, session 2024-2025 is currently open for undergraduate programs till Mar 29, 2024. For coursework ot mix mode programs, the application deadline is Aug 30, 2024. Postgraduate applicants have until May 31, 2024 to apply for Sem 2, session 2024
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What is the tuition fees per year for undergraduate English education program at University of Malaya?