Malaysia's 5 research universities make it in Top 100 QS University Rankings Asia 2013

• UM, UKM, USM, UTM and UPM are in this year's QS University Rankings Asia for the second time in a row.

Malaysia's oldest public research universities made it in the top 100 of this year's QS University Rankings: Asia for the second time in a row. All 5 universities improved their rankings from last year's results. The ranking method has been the same - academic reputation, employer reputation, student/faculty ratio, papers per faculty, citations per paper, internationalisation and inbound/outbound student exchange. This year 469 universities joined.

UM vice-chancellor Prof Tan Sri Dr Ghauth Jasmon said he was elated with the continued rise of the university in the rankings. "UM scored distinction in all criteria except for citations and papers per staff, which take time to build up,"he said, adding the improvement over the past four years was due to the university's strong drive for high impact research.