For those who doesn't know, Nottingham city is also known as "Shottingham" or the notorious gun-crime capital of UK.

Take note that Nottingham City is one of the most crime ridden city in UK and the bad economy is not helping in this situation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/7170441.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham#Crime

Nottingham's new mock name given by the British themselves: Shootingham

Where is Nottingham's reputation going over the years?

Because lo you know Nottingham la in Malaysia ranking among the other local universities:

You see hor,
Nottingham U Malaysia campus ranks 19th in Malaysia. Even Universiti Utara Malaysia is ranked higher than it when they can produce 300 Dean List recipients alone this year.
Nottingham Malaysia and Nottingham UK both have different world rankings score.

845 Universiti Sains Malaysia
920 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
962 University of Malaya
1053 Universiti Putra Malaysia
1146 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
1230 Multimedia University
1340 Universiti Teknologi Mara
1444 International Islamic University Malaysia
1630 Universiti Utara Malaysia
2770 Universiti Malaysia Sabah
3037 Monash University Malaysia
3086 Universiti Tenaga Nasional
3121 Universiti Teknologi Petronas
3297 Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
3495 Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
3521 Curtin University of Technology Sarawak Campus
4009 Universiti Malaysia Pahang
4112 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
4350 University of Nottingham Malaysia
4491 Universiti Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia
4528 Universiti Tun Abdul Razak
4758 Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology
4834 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
4894 Taylor's College Malaysia
5602 INTI International Group of University & Colleges
5667 Help University College
5745 Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
5793 Sunway University College
5867 Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM)

http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=my

Don't joke with me with THES Rankings ok?
It's regarded as the most biased UK ranking around which heavily promotes UK universities as well as Commonwealth nations such as Australia, NZ and Malaysia.

Now could you all tell me why isn't Webometrics not accurate about Malaysian universities?
USM which is the only APEX university is top up there with UTM and UM taking 2nd and 3rd places.

They have even single out Oxbridge from their top 10 list because there are universities in the US who won Nobel Prizes 2-3X more than what Oxbridge has accomplished.

Source:

The latest criticism of the QS-THE league tables came from Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics at University of Warwick:[12]

"Such claims do us a disservice. The organisations who promote such ideas should be unhappy themselves, and so should any supine UK universities who endorse results they view as untruthful. Using these league table results on your websites, universities, if in private you deride the quality of the findings, is unprincipled and will ultimately be destructive of yourselves, because if you are not in the truth business what business are you in, exactly? Worse, this kind of material incorrectly reassures the UK government that our universities are international powerhouses. Let us instead, a bit more coolly, do what people in universities are paid to do. Let us use reliable data to try to discern the truth. In the last 20 years, Oxford has won no Nobel Prizes. Cambridge has done only slightly better. Stanford University in the United States, purportedly number 19 in the world, garnered three times as many Nobel Prizes over the past two decades as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge did combined. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THES_-_QS_Wor...kings#Criticism

Do not underestimate the power of the internet. Most of the journals and work published by universities are made on the net. Webopedia believes that by measuring how much formal traffic and activity of a university, they can determine roughly how good the university is. By referring to the internet as a main source, they are not only referring to websites or student activities but library databases, discoveries, news and achievements are taken into account.

As for THES, if you read their method peer evaluation makes up a huge portion of the way they rate universities which many professors and education related staffs claimed that it's flawed as who knows anyone can be bribed to say good about another. There can be many discreet reasons when you rely on people's opinion.