Saw this article in The Sunday Star - Education section.
Last month, USM was named the top research university in the country by the Higher Education Ministry.
This is based on a five-year evaluation against eight criteria: research quality, research quantity, researcher quality and quantity, postgraduate quality and quantity, level of innovation, support such as facilities and human expertise, level of networking and internationalisation, and number of awards and recognition received.
According to Prof Dzulkifli, the university scored high marks in all eight areas used in the appraisal, which took place from 2000 to 2005.
USM received 100% for innovation, awards and recognition and at least 88% in most categories.
A lot of interesting points brought up in the article such as a better remuneration scheme to attract more postgraduate students and how USM will spend the RM153 million grant received by all research universities.
Read the full article here.