KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 — Local universities did not feature in the recent Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings as they lacked the research expertise needed for a placing, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Khaled Nordin explained today.
“We know that if we participated, we will not even make it into the Times top 400 university rankings because we are new, we need to wait until our research really matured,” Khaled was quoted by Bernama Online today.
“It’s not that we have been assessed and disqualified... [but] our elements of research are just too young and immature [to make the list].”
Times’ World University Rankings is a grades the world’s top 400 universities.
The California Institute of Technology — or Caltech — secured top spot in this year’s rankings, followed by Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton.
The World University Rankings first appeared as a supplement in The Times of London, are now published by the Times Higher Education magazine.
The weekly is regarded as the UK’s leading higher education publication.
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