The University of Malta embarked on a Strategic Planning Process to update its vision and mission for the forthcoming years. The Strategic Plan 2020-2025 presents a set of overall goals and a roadmap on how to achieve them.
The following is a snapshot of the metrics used by various organisations to rank universities around the world. The metrics were taken into consideration when developing the University's Strategic Plan.
Teaching (the learning environment): 30%
- Reputation survey: 15%
- Staff-to-student ratio: 4.5%
- Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio: 2.25%
- Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio: 6%
- Institutional income: 2.25%
Research (volume, income and reputation): 30%
- Reputation survey: 18%
- Research income: 6%
- Research productivity: 6%
International outlook (staff, students, research): 7.5%
- International-to-domestic-student ratio: 2.5%
- International-to-domestic-staff ratio: 2.5%
- International collaboration: 2.5%
Citations (research influence): 30%
Industry income (knowledge transfer): 2.5%
Engagement: 40%
- Student engagement: 10%
- Student interaction: 10%
- Student recommendation: 10%
- Student career preparation: 5%
- Links to labour market: 5%
Resources: 20%
- Staff-to-student ratio: 7.5%
- Papers-to-staff ratio: 7.5%
- Quality of services: 5%
Outcomes: 20%
- Academic reputation: 10%
- Graduation rate: 5%
- Skills development: 5%
Environment: 20%
- Gender balance of academic staff: 10%
- Gender balance of students: 10%
- Academic reputation: 40%
- Employer reputation: 10%
- Faculty/student ratio: 20%
- Citations per faculty: 20%
- International faculty ratio: 5%
- International student ratio: 5%
- Top-cited publications
- Student mobility
- Research publications
- Co-publications with industrial partners
- Income from continuous professional development
- Inter-disciplinary publications
- International joint publications
- Patents awarded
- Regional joint publication
- Coverage and outreach
- Teaching mission
- Research bibliometrics