KUANTAN: Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) has retained top spot as the country's leading technical university in the Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN) for the third year in a row.
Established in 2002, the Pahang-based campus maintained the 601-800 range in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 (THE WUR 2025) ranking on Oct 9, after being ranked from 801 to 1,000 in 2023.
UMPSA vice-chancellor Professor Datuk Dr Yuserrie Zainuddin said the university topped the MTUN standings, and emerged eighth best higher learning institution in the country as well as the sixth best public university in Malaysia.
He said the recent rankings will help further strengthen UMPSA's position in line with world-class universities and produce quality research, and innovation that has a global impact.
"The university offers engineering and technology based higher education programmes, and focuses on Advanced Technical and Vocational Education and Training(TVET). The increase in teaching indicators reflects the academic quality of UMPSA is internationally recognised," he said in a statement.
Yuserrie said the latest feat was made memorable after 20 lecturers from UMPSA were ranked among the world's "Top 2% Scientist" in the list of outstanding researchers in various fields and disciplines under both the career-long and single-year achievements by Stanford University's Elsevier Database.
Meanwhile, Yuserrie congratulated the people of UMPSA saying the achievement will serve as a source of pride for academics at both the Pekan and Kuantan campuses who have been always committed towards ensuring teaching excellence, industry and academic collaboration, and increasing impactful research.
"We hope that all UMPSA members will continue to excel and strive to improve the university's standings in the future. Coinciding with the university's vision to emerge as a top technology university, UMPSA will continue to ensure academic empowerment, impactful research and produce graduates who become quality human capital for the country," he said.
THE WUR 2025 which consists of over 2,000 universities across 115 countries and territories will measure an institution's performance across five criteria namely teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook and ties with industries.