Skip to main content
AcademicWingsSTEM discovery
Institution profile

Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

MalaysiaAsia

#551

QS World University Rankings 2026

29.9

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#551

QS World University Rankings 2026

#641

QS World University Rankings 2025

29.9

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
9.5
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
19.9
QS 2026 rank
#660

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
76.6
QS 2026 rank
#187

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
34.1
QS 2026 rank
#535

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
34.7
QS 2026 rank
#537

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
70.5
QS 2026 rank
#274

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
65.6
QS 2026 rank
#299

International research network

QS 2026 score
55.7
QS 2026 rank
#754

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
5.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
48.7
QS 2026 rank
#737
University profile

About Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

UNITEN connects energy questions with computing, engineering, business, and sustainability

Universiti Tenaga Nasional, known as UNITEN, presents an energy-focused public identity that sits beside computing, engineering, business, and sustainability. Its programme map names computing routes such as software, information technology, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data-related work. It also names renewable, civil, mechanical, electrical power, and electronics engineering, as well as business areas including economics, entrepreneurship, supply chain, management, accounting, finance, and marketing. These categories make a broad energy topic more specific, but they do not turn all of those fields into one research method or one project environment.

An energy question needs a defined system before a reader chooses a disciplinary route. It might concern a power network, energy-infrastructure asset, computing model, policy decision, demand pattern, built setting, technical component, business process, or environmental condition. The material needed could include measurements, simulation outputs, system logs, designs, policy texts, operational records, interviews, financial records, or a stated dataset. UNITEN's public map can help locate a relevant vocabulary, yet the final research connection should rest on a page that says what is being investigated and how that question is bounded.

Six National Energy Centre institutes divide an energy question into traceable parts

UNITEN's National Energy Centre is described through six research institutes: Sustainable Energy, Power Engineering, Energy Infrastructure, Energy Policy and Research, Informatics and Computing in Energy, and Nuclear Energy. This structure is useful because it separates objects that are often placed together too quickly. A power-engineering question may concern generation, control, equipment, reliability, or system performance. An infrastructure question may focus on a network, asset, maintenance condition, or resilience issue. A policy question can require rules, institutions, documents, incentives, and public or organisational behaviour. Computing in energy can involve data, modelling, software, sensors, or system integration.

The institute names provide a more disciplined search route than a general phrase such as energy innovation. They still need to be read beside the proposed evidence. A sustainable-energy question might need environmental measures, technology data, or community records. A nuclear-energy question could require a precisely stated technical or policy context. A computing question may need a model, algorithm, input data, evaluation criterion, or operational setting. The official page also refers to laboratories, but a named laboratory is not proof that a proposed project is under way there. A close account needs a source that ties the stated problem to a visible research activity.

Research frameworks distinguish collaboration, commercialisation, and a stated UNITEN activity

UNITEN also describes a Research Excellence Center that coordinates research development, management, collaboration, knowledge generation, and research governance. A separate UNITEN research and development company is described in relation to technology transfer, intellectual property, and work involving academic, government, and industry participants. These are important parts of a research environment, but they answer different questions from an institute or project page. A governance route can explain how work is organised. A technology-transfer route can indicate how a result may travel beyond the university. Neither route alone identifies a particular research object, method, or output.

A careful UNITEN search should therefore move in stages. Start with a defined energy, computing, engineering, business, or sustainability question. Identify the system and the evidence needed to answer it. Use the National Energy Centre institutes to find the closest conceptual home, then look for a page that names a project, research outcome, researcher, or local activity. The official sources establish an energy-oriented academic and research map with several distinct institutes and organisational routes. They do not establish that every related topic is current, that a named resource is available for a particular use, or that a broad institute title confirms a specific match. This keeps the discovery process both practical and honest.

Institution record

Country
Malaysia
Region
Asia
Status
Private for Profit
QS size code
S
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

This date shows when this profile was refreshed. It is not a source-verification date from QS or the university.

Search opportunities

Opportunity records may use a different form of the institution's name. Confirm every listing with its original source.