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2. 8th Best University in the Indonesian, University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM) finished eighth in the ranking web of world universities from all universities in Indonesia. The giver ranking institutions, Webometrics, UMM also put in the position of 20 thousand 1,264 universities around the world. "UMM this time also successfully broke into 35 ASEAN," said Head of ICT Center UMM, Suyanto, Saturday (30/7).

3. According to Suyanto, UMM positions rose significantly compared to last January. At that time, UMM are 18th in Indonesia and 1,495 in the world order. In the new Webometrics ranking, UMM is under UI, ITB, UGM, IPB, Gunadarma University, UM, and Petra Christian University.

4. After UMM, the next position is occupied Undip, Unand, UNS, Unsri, and UB. Webometrics since it was first released in 2004, UMM has never entered the world-class category. However, since the end of last year, achieving world rankings continues to be strengthened. "We started a new one last year, and will continue to strive to improve the ranking," he said.

5. "Suyatno optimistic ranking UMM strengthen over academic awareness publish their works through the website. He said the website has been designed with dynamic would be a good means of communication between the UMM with the outside world. "The works we are actually quite a lot. Achievement is also very good. So there is no barrier to increase the volume of website content," said Suyanto.

6. The worldwide ranking of universities by Cybermetrics Lab, Spain by assessing more than 20 thousand websites universities worldwide. Ranking made twice a year, namely: January and July. In Webometrics, there are four indicators are assessed, namely: size (size), visibility (number of external websites that link to the website UMM), rich files (a lot of content documents in pdf format, doc and ppt), and scholar (the number of scientific papers UMM recognized as a scientific source by Google Scholar).

7. Of the four indicators, the value of rich files UMM pretty good. "While the three other indicators still need to be improved. Was still needed to work harder to maintain and even improve on Webometrics ranking in January next year," said Suyanto.

8. Vice Rector I, Sujono said position proves UMM received international recognition. Domestically, UMM also enter the best universities rank 13 Globe Asia magazine (2008), 50 promising universities Directorate General of Higher version (2007), and four times in a row as the most superior PTS Kopertis region VII (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ).

9. Besides Weobometrics, university websites assessment is also carried out by an institute in Australia. UMM, according to the ranking of a website assessment by 4icu, Australia, http://www.4icu.org/id/ in the June 2011 issue, ranked UMM Indonesia rose to 14th place from the original order of 20 (January 2011).

10. Some foreign cooperation programs have been utilizing this website UMM UMM so selected by the European Commission as a cooperation partner of student and faculty exchanges with universities in Europe since 2010. Cooperation in the Erasmus Mundus program was even extended to the other until 2014.

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