Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
#126
QS World University Rankings 2026
65.2
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#126
QS World University Rankings 2026
#138
QS World University Rankings 2025
65.2
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 76.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #106
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 76.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #119
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 78.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #174
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 30.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #587
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 50.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #439
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #129
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 94
- QS 2026 rank
- #114
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 86.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #235
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 35.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #485
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 74.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #243
About Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Research institutes provide a visible structure for UKM's scientific questions
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, widely known as UKM, makes research institutes visible alongside its wider academic structure. The public research material names settings such as the Fuel Cell Institute, the Institute of Climate Change, the Institute of Visual Informatics, the Solar Energy Research Institute, and the Institute of Systems Biology. These institute names are useful because they point to distinct research objects and methods. Energy conversion is not the same kind of question as climate processes, visual information, or biological systems. A reader should choose the institute that is closest to the actual subject, then look for the smaller research group, facility, or person that explains the local work.
The list also shows why a general interest in sustainability or technology needs sharper language. A solar-energy question may concern a material, conversion process, storage system, or grid context. A climate question may involve observation, modelling, policy, ecosystems, or a local environmental condition. Visual informatics may involve images, interaction, computation, or data representation. Systems biology has its own biological evidence and analytical practices. UKM's institute map supports an initial comparison, but a strong profile keeps the question at this level of detail instead of merging unrelated research settings under one attractive phrase.
Research pages show a relationship between institutes, projects, and wider impact questions
UKM's research material frames research in relation to scientific inquiry as well as economic and social development. It also shows public examples connected with energy, climate, health, and digital or visual systems. These examples should be treated as entry points, not as a complete list of current work. A story or project title can help identify an object, method, or setting, but it may not explain whether the same line of work continues in a particular unit. The relevant institute or faculty page is needed to turn a broad example into a carefully supported research connection.
This public structure can be especially useful for questions that have both technical and societal dimensions. A climate platform may link data with environmental decision-making. A solar-energy project may bring together engineering and a wider system context. A systems-biology topic may connect laboratory evidence with computation. The profile should name the primary research object before adding any wider relevance. That order matters: it prevents a societal aim from standing in for a method, dataset, organism, material, or technical system. UKM's research pages provide routes into such questions, but the local unit provides the necessary specificity.
Map a UKM topic from a named institute to a concrete research question
A useful UKM comparison starts by writing a narrow question and selecting the institute that can plausibly address it. For a climate problem, state the environmental process, model, location, or dataset. For an energy question, state the conversion, material, device, or system. For a visual-informatics question, state the image, interface, algorithm, or user context. For a biological question, state the organism, mechanism, measurement, or analytical approach. Only then add the faculty, researcher, laboratory, or project that confirms the connection. This creates a readable path from a university-level research name to evidence about real work.
It is useful to finish with the next item to verify. An institute may identify the right area while not showing a particular team or current programme. A public example may be useful but leave the method or time frame uncertain. These are reasons to keep the claim narrow. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia provides a public research map built around institutes and visible project themes. A disciplined use of that map follows one defined subject into a local setting, with each link supported by what the relevant page actually makes visible.
Institution record
- Country
- Malaysia
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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