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Ministry of Higher Education MalaysiaValues: non-citizen academic staff · %IN BRIEF
EDUCATION · MALAYSIA
How international are Malaysia's public-university lecturer workforces?
Compare the non-citizen share of academic staff across Malaysian public universities.
SHOW ME THE DATA2014 → 2023 · non-citizen academic staff · %
VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens
2014
1Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM)18
2Universiti Malaya (UM)17
3Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMPSA)13
4Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)13
5Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)12
6Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA)12
7Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)10
8Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK)9
9Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)9
10Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)9
11Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)8
12Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP)7
13Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)6
14Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT)6
16Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)4
15Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM)4
17Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)4
18Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)3
19Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)3
20Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)3
201420142023
SourceMinistry of Higher Education Malaysia ↗01 Sep 2024 · data through 2023HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
Non-citizen share is one workforce dimension; it should not be used as a standalone proxy for internationalisation quality.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSCitizenship composition, not internationalisation quality.
PulseKita divides non-citizen academic-staff counts by the all-citizenship academic-staff total for each public university and year, using both sexes.
- Citizenship is not the same as country of qualification or research collaboration.
- A higher non-citizen share is not inherently better or worse; it is simply a workforce-composition measure.
- The latest official open-data year is 2023.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Primary evidenceLecturers in Public Universities by Citizenship & Sex
- 2TransformationPulseKita divides non-citizen academic-staff counts by the all-citizenship academic-staff total for each public university and year, using both sexes.
- 3Published visualAnimated race
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2014 → 2023
UNITnon-citizen academic staff · %
SOURCEmachine readable
UPDATED01 Sep 2024 · data through 2023




















