The whole point of this thread is to point out how badly UM has slid in the past few decades.

If you're only 20 years old and only know of it's current semi-crappy condition, let us tell you that it was much better in the past. UM was never better than NUS in Singapore. But the gap was much closer. While NUS had climbed up the rankings, UM had spent the past 20 years climbing down.