Ranking
The university was ranked 111st in the World University Rankings 2004 published by the Times Higher Education Supplement. However, it dropped out of the list of top 200 universities in the world in 2005.
USM vice-chancellor Prof Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said that the addition of new criteria such as the employer survey could have contributed to the sharp drop in the university's integrity: "Our poor standing could also be attributed to the fact that we are a relatively young university compared to UM which is 100 years old. They have built up a stable reputation in that time." Prof. Dzulkifli also cited the poor staff-student ratio in Malaysian universities: "Over the past years we have doubled our intake. USM now has 35,000 students including 28,000 undergraduates but the number of lecturers, about 1,400 has not increased in tandem."
On 3 Sept 2008, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) was declared the Apex (Accelerated Programme for Excellence) University by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia. In 2010, USM achieved the position of 123 under the category of Life Sciences and Biomedicine (Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings).
For the 2010 QS Asian University rankings, USM was at 69th place. For particular subjects, the rankings were as below:
| Year | Subject | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Arts & Humanities | 58 |
| Engineering & Technology | 63 | |
| Social Sciences & Management | 37 | |
| Natural Sciences | 39 | |
| Life Sciences & Medicine | 20 |
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