Sorry Malta, Our University Has Been Classified In Global Rankings And It’s Slipped 100 Places Since Last Year
Maybe it was the parking problems, questionable teaching methods or lewd lecturers, but the latest global university rankings have come in and the University of Malta has been slipping.
A new study by the Centre for World University Rankings’ looked at 20,000 universities, with 2,000 of them making it to the published final list.
In that list, UoM ranked 1,762, with a total rating of 66.7/100.
While that might mean that technically Malta’s university is in the top 10% in the world, it’s in the bottom quarter of the ones that made ranking. Worse off, Malta actually slipped over 100 ranks since last year’s survey.
In 2020, Malta came in at 1,762, right behind the University of Notre Dame in Australia and right above Diego Portales University in Chile.
In 2019, Malta’s university came in right behind Başkent University in Turkey and above the University of Madras in India which are ranked the 40th and 42nd best universities in their countries respectively.
It was ranked 1,659 then.
Source: CWUR
The study, which was aimed at providing solid data and information to improve educational and research centres, looked at 227 subject categories and four key themes: quality of education, careers of former alumni, the quality of the faculties and research performance.
Of those four themes, UoM performed best in its research performance category.
The University of Malta is the island’s main higher education institution, with its earliest precursor being set up in 1592 in Malta.
The university’s motto is ‘We should bring forth fruit unto God’ and the current rector is Professor Alfred J. Vella.
It’s produced some of the island’s greatest minds and has some notable alumni – though honestly, it’s hard to beat the fact that former North Korean despot Kim Jong-il was once taught English by one of them.
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