KUALA LUMPUR: The University of Malaya (UM) has been listed as being among 400 to 500 Top Universities in the World by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University this year.
The chairman of the UM Board of Directors, Tan Sri Arshad Ayub said UM was included in the list based on the number of journals published in the data base of the index journal of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), the number of international lecturers engaged and the enrolment of international students at the university.
He said the list issued by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University was different from the list issued by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking where the UM was placed 167th in the world.
Arshad explained that UM’s position in the list issued by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University could be pushed higher if it engaged the services of professionals who had received the Noble award, however, for the time being the UM had not engaged such professionals, he told reporters after launching the “Minggu Haluansiswa” at the University of Malaya, yesterday.
Other universities listed by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University included the Cairo University in Egypt; University of Zagreb in Croatia and the University of Wollongong in Australia, while Harvard University was in first place.
Meanwhile, UM vice-chancellor Tan Sri Dr Ghauth Jasmon said more students would be pursuing studies at the masters and doctorate (PhD) levels in the 2011/2012 semester after the university relaxed the entry requirement with a minimum 3.3 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
“For students who have experience in the field of studies to be pursued, the entry requirement is a minimum CGPA of 3.0,” he said. — Bernama