UTM has made progress in the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities, July 2020 edition, by being positioned at number 531, to more than 30,000 higher education institutes from more than 200 countries. Ranked second among Malaysian universities after Universiti Malaya (UM), UTM also has the second-highest web presence according to the ranking calculation.

Compared to the last Webometric Ranking exercise in January 2020, UTM improved from 546th to 531st position in the World Ranking.

Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions offering every six months an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise for providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world.

The ranking is published by the Cybermetrics Lab, with its aim to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results. The ranking started in 2004 and is updated every January and July.

The UTM Management Team would like to thank all staff and students for their concerted effort, commitment and dedication, resulting in this significant outcome. Well done!

source : Webometrics.info