Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
#791
QS World University Rankings 2026
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QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
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QS World University Rankings 2026
#801
QS World University Rankings 2025
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QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
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Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 19.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #636
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 43.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #304
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 19.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 13.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 15.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #784
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 11.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 51.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 5.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 57.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #548
About Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman combines engineering, science, business, medicine, and the humanities
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman is a not-for-profit private university in Malaysia with campuses in Kampar and Sungai Long. Its public profile lists programmes and research across accounting, business and economics, actuarial science, mathematics and process management, agriculture and food science, arts, social sciences and education, creative industries and design, engineering and the built environment, information and communication technology, life and physical sciences, Chinese studies, medicine, and health sciences.
The Kampar campus includes faculties of arts and social science, business and finance, engineering and green technology, information and communication technology, science, education, and Chinese studies, together with postgraduate and research institutes. Sungai Long adds accountancy and management, medicine and health sciences, creative industries, engineering and science, education, and Chinese studies. A project should choose the faculty that owns the primary evidence.
UTAR research centres connect green technology, food, health, data, and communities
UTAR reports research centres and institutes distributed across its faculties, along with an Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research and a Global Research Network. Engineering and green technology can address energy, buildings, water, manufacturing, and environmental systems. Science, agriculture, and food research use organisms, crops, compounds, processing, and ecosystems. Information technology uses software, data, networks, and digital behaviour. Medicine and health sciences need patients, services, biological material, and outcomes.
Kampar is a former tin-mining town in Perak's Kinta Valley and offers a lake, mountain, campus, and regional setting. Sungai Long is in the Klang Valley near Kuala Lumpur and connects the university with a dense township and metropolitan context. These places can provide field evidence for environment, land, food, health, business, education, and urban studies, but a project must name the population, site, organisation, or dataset.
How to assess a Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman research route
Begin with the object and then follow it to the faculty, centre, institute, laboratory, and researcher. Engineering needs devices, structures, materials, processes, energy systems, or test values. Computing needs code, data, algorithms, networks, or users. Agriculture and food science need soil, crops, animals, ingredients, microbes, or safety measures. Medicine needs patients, samples, clinics, or health outcomes. Business and economics need firms, markets, records, or decisions. Arts, education, Chinese studies, and social sciences need texts, learners, images, communities, or institutions.
At UTAR, describe the work as laboratory, computational, clinical, agricultural, field-based, design-led, archival, educational, organisational, or policy research. Name the campus, farm, workshop, clinic, company, school, archive, township, dataset, or community that supplies the evidence. Kampar may be a rural, ecological, or industrial field setting, while Sungai Long may provide urban or health evidence. Explain the role of the location, add the expected result, and identify the first sample, interview, map, prototype, record, or measurement.
A practical Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman research question
A workable UTAR question links a Malaysian system or scientific object to a defined result. It might study green technology, model a food process, examine a health service, analyse a digital platform, evaluate a classroom, or map urban change. Name the faculty, campus, evidence, and first method. Identify whether Kampar or Sungai Long supplies the field material, and explain which partner or facility will interpret it. That choice keeps the campus detail connected to the research design for both campuses.
Institution record
- Country
- Malaysia
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Private not for Profit
- QS size code
- M
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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