APA ADA PADA "RANKING DUNIA"

Ya, saudara. Apa ada pada nama. Apa ada pada ranking dunia. Apa ada pada pengiktirafan. Apa ada pada akreditasi. Apa pentingnya piawaian/standard. Apa pentingnya kualiti. Apa pentingnya piala. Apa pentingnya jadi juara. Apa pentingnya.........................

Datuk Nicole David telah dinobatkan ratu skuasy dunia atau pemain nombor satu dunia untuk beberapa musim . Lee Chong Wei baru saja menduduki tangga kedua dunia di belakang pemain Cina dalam acara badminton perseorangan lelaki. Baru boleh disebut sebagai cermerlang, gemilang terbilang. Tahniah untuk mereka dan syabas. Saya sebagai rakyat Malaysia menumpang gembira dan kagum dengan prestasi serta pencapaian anda berdua. Dan, teruskan usaha kerana adalah lebih sukar untuk mengekalkan satu-satu kemenangan berbanding dengan mencapainya buat kali pertama.

Dalam dunia pendidikan khususnya kedudukan Universiti kita berbanding dengan negara di Asia dan dunia, kita agak ketinggalan jauh di belakang jiran kita Singapura,Indonesia,Thailand, Jepun, Taiwan dan Korea. So what? Penting ke untuk bersaing di peringkat antarabangsa dalam bidang pendidikan tinggi? Jangan cuba nak membandingkan Universiti di mana saya lulus dengan Universiti anak saya belajar? anak jiran saya, anak menantu saya, dan seterusnya.

Semuanya sama sahaja apabila keluar nanti dapat segulung kertas, kerja makan gaji dengan kerajaan , tak ada bezanya tangga gaji graduan lulusan Harvard Universiti dengan graduan Universiti XYZ Malaysia. Jika adapun mungkin sedikit kelebihan bagi lulusan Harvard berbanding dengan MIT (yang mana satu agaknya, MIT Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, atau Melbourne Institute of Technology atau **** Institute Of Technology) jika bekerja di sektor swasta.

Jadi kenapa dijadikan isu universiti mesti berdaya saing, berdaya maju dan mampu menangani cabaran gobalisasi jika semua universiti adalah sama sekadar menjadi "alat" untuk mendapat segulung kertas sebagai tiket untuk mendapat kerja, seterusnya menerima gaji dan menjalani kehidupan sementara di atas muka bumi?

Boleh atau tidak kita samakan "Universiti" dengan sebuah "kilang"? Proses yang berlaku antara pengeluaran graduan universiti dengan pengeluaran "produk" dari kilang tidak sama tetapi ada kesamaan. Jadi kesimpulannya, jangan susah hati kalau tak dapat masuk Cambridge atau Oxford. Tak penting. Apa ada pada nama. Bila mati tinggal segala kecuali "nama".



Kedudukan (Ranking) Universiti di Asia

CONTINENT RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	WORLD RANK
1	University of Tokyo		54
2	National Taiwan University		70
3	Kyoto University		89
4	National University of Singapore		111
5	Beijing University		112
6	Chinese University of Hong Kong		123
7	University of Hong Kong		148
8	Keio University		165
9	University of Tsukuba		234
10	Tsinghua University China		238
11	National Chiao Tung University		239
12	National Sun Yat-Sen University		242
13	Nagoya University		256
14	Osaka University		266
15	Tohoku University		284
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University		285
17	National Taiwan Normal University		307
18	Tokyo Institute of Technology		308
19	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology		309
20	National Cheng Kung University		310
21	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology		312
22	Seoul National University		332
23	University of Science & Technology of China		334
24	ZheJiang University		337
25	National Tsing Hua University Taiwan		338
26	Kyushu University		363
27	National Central University		373
28	Prince of Songkla University		384
29	Kobe University		394
30	Fudan University		418
31	City University of Hong Kong		438
32	Chulalongkorn University		444
33	Hong Kong Polytechnic University		456
34	Nanyang Technological University		474
35	Ritsumeikan University		482
36	National Chengchi University		486
37	United Nations University		498
38	Tamkang University		509
39	Pohang University of Science & Technology		518
40	National Chung Cheng University		519
41	Hiroshima University		524
42	Nanjing University		529
43	Shandong University		541
44	Kasetsart University		544
45	I-Shou University		559
46	Wuhan University		570
47	Hong Kong Baptist University		573
48	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore		605
49	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay		607
50	Korea University		630
51	Nankai University		643
52	Tokyo University of Science (Note 29)		646
53	Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology		668
54	Yonsei University		676
55	Xiamen University		691
56	Beijing Normal University		694
57	National Chung Hsing University		707
58	Hosei University		711
59	Waseda University		718
60	Harbin Institute of Technology		736
61	Mahidol University		740
62	Asian Institute of Technology Thailand		741
63	University of Electro-Communications		753
64	Xi'An Jiaotong University		769
65	Nara Institute of Science & Technology		774
66	Fu Jen Catholic University		777
67	Doshisha University		778
68	Renmin University of China		779
69	Yamagata University		780
70	Providence University		787
71	Okayama University		789
72	East China Normal University		794
73	Tokai University		812
74	Gadjah Mada University		819
75	Feng Chia University		821
76	Yuan Ze University		823
77	Ryukoku University		825
78	Institute of Technology Bandung		826
79	Nihon University		828
80	Shinshu University		832
81	Gunma University		834
82	Pusan National University		844
83	Niigata University		847
84	Thammasat University		850
85	Huazhong University of Science & Technology		859
86	Hanyang University		871
87	University of Tokushima		875
88	Chiang Mai University		877
89	Tunghai University		888
90	Mie University		897
91	Meiji University		901
92	Tongji University		911
93	Chiba University		916
94	Sungkyunkwan University		920
95	Assumption University of Thailand		921
96	Nagaoka University of Technology		926
97	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia		929
98	Khon Kaen University		937
99	Gifu University		946
100	Shih Hsin University

Kedudukan (Ranking) Universiti di Dunia

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2 Harvard University

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3 Stanford University

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4 University of California Berkeley

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5 Pennsylvania State University

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6 University of Michigan

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7 Cornell University

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8 University of Minnesota

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9 University of Wisconsin Madison

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10 University of Texas Austin

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11 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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12 University of Pennsylvania

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13 University of Washington

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14 Carnegie Mellon University

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15 Columbia University New York

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16 Purdue University

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17 University of California Los Angeles
18 University of Florida

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19 University of Chicago

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20 University of Maryland

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21 University of Arizona

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22 Texas A&M University

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23 Georgia Institute of Technology
24 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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25 Princeton University

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26 University of Cambridge

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27 Michigan State University

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28 University of Toronto (Note 1) 59 36 42 50

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29 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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30 Rutgers University

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31 New York University

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32 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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33 Indiana University

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34 University of California San Diego

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35 University of Southern California

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36 North Carolina State University

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37 Duke University

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38 University of Colorado Boulder

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39 Johns Hopkins University (Note 2)

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40 California Institute of Technology

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41 University of Pittsburgh

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42 Australian National University

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42 University of Helsinki (Note 3)

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44 Yale University

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45 University of Virginia

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46 University of California Davis

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47 University of Oxford

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48 Washington University Saint Louis

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49 University of British Columbia

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50 University of Calgary

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64 University College London

202 Tel Aviv University

929 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

977 Universiti Sains Malaysia

1219 University Kebangsaan

1281 Universiti Putra Malaysia

1328 University of Malaya

1802 Universiti Teknologi Mara

1961 Universiti Utara Malaysia

2536 Universiti Malaysia Perlis

2816 Universiti Malaysia Sabah

3308 Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

3458 Universiti Teknologi Petronas

3,758Universiti Tenaga Nasional

3978 Universiti Tun Abdul Razak