In the recent Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) World University Rankings.
university MalayaÂ’s (UM)overall position in the World University Rankings dropped from 89 in 2004 to 169 this year, whileuniversityi Sains Malaysia(USM), which placed 111 last year did not make it to the top 200.
Most of the comment target on UM while our 33 years old CEO and founder of Sesdaq listed company Cyber Village, Tony Pua choose to comment on USM in his blog.
I intend to do the same to comment on USM but from different point of view. While the ranking is important to UM as it is inherent from our Britishcoloniall education system and act as a benchmark against Nationaluniversityy of Singapore which demerge from UM.
I feel USM should have different mission. USM located in Penang, Silicon Valley of Malaysia. USM mission should benchmark against National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. As Taiwan view as Silicon Valley in Asia.
Nasional Chiao Tung University in Taiwan produced many techpreneur in Taiwan including Acer's founder Stan Shih. Mitac's President and Vice Chairman Francis Tsai, Mitac's Vice President Stone Chen. Co-founder and Vice Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited (TSMC) Dr. F.C. Tseng. ASUSTek Computer's Chairman. Founder and Chairman of Winbond Electronics Corporation, Chairman of Leo Systems Inc, Chaiman of Quanta Computer.................and the list go on.......................................
Number of research paper from Nasianal Chiao Tung University published on professional journal IEEE areconsistentlyy higher than MIT, Stanford, UCLA and Berkeley every year yet the University in not on the THES ranking. I think this might cause by the University teach in Mandarin rather than English. This cause the University has limited foreign student.
USM has been ranking as one of the top IT user in Malaysia and in Asia. The University also winnumerouss award in the country during the year.
Founder of e-Business Sdn Bhd Mr Chan Hong Saik said majority of their staff are hire from University Sains Malaysia of Penang. The company's product are used by a lot of multinational bank. This proved that graduate from USM is competitive.
University Sains Malaysia(USM) has a incubator and commercial arm USAINS Holding Sdn Bhd that help to incubate andcommercialesee scientific research.
I feel that USM should benchmark against Nasional Chiao Tung University in Taiwan rather than try to be reincluded in THES ranking
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