Johor Bahru, 28th July: UTM website ranks number two among Malaysian University listed by the Webometrics Ranking of World universities, July 2021 edition which was announced today.

The Webometrics ranking of world universities which was published every six months since 2004 by the Cybermetrics Lab in Spain ranked 31,000 Higher Leaning Institutions from more than 200 countries around the world.

Webometrics continuously improving the ranking, evolving the indicators and the weighting model to provide a better classification, and for this July 2021 edition, the Presence indicator which calculates the size of institutions’ website has been discontinued. The other indicators were used including Visibility, Transparency (or Openness) and Excellence (or Scholar).