The establishment of the Department of Ranking (DoR) under the purview of UiTM Global is a significant milestone as far as the UiTM internationalization agenda is concerned. Its inception reflects the emphasis and priority given by the management in positioning UiTM to become an outstanding higher education institution at a global level. The importance of ranking is straight forward – it provides a shorthand list of institutions that may provide prospective students and parents with some information on what they are looking for in a university. However, this function keeps on expanding as it has increasingly influenced governments, external stakeholders and institutional management in decision-making for funding and budgeting research activities among others.

At the operational level, DoR is responsible for managing all relevant tasks related to ranking, including data compilation, data cleaning as well as data submission to various ranking bodies both nationally and internationally. At the strategic level, DoR is responsible for proposing recommendations to UiTM's top management in planning the strategies to improve visibility and reputation at the national, regional and international levels. Consequently, these actions items are then conveyed and communicated to the faculty and branches with the help of the Ranking Champion (RC) who functions as an ‘agent of change’ to bring everybody in their department to join the force in executing the initiatives for better ranking performance.

Even though ranking has often been critically emphasised in communications by the Vice Chancellor, this agenda will never supersede the main social responsibility of UiTM in providing wide education access for the Bumiputra. At its core, what ranking does is to complement this task by benchmarking UiTM against other outstanding institutions to raise the standard and ensure that this university stays relevant in becoming a globally renowned university as stipulated in the UiTM2025 Blueprint.