One other program that is believed to be able to raise the assessment parameters in QS WUR and QS AUR is the international collaboration between USU researchers and researchers from foreign universities (PT) who have entered the top 500 in the world. This will have an impact on academic reputation, citation per faculty and also indirectly on employer reputation. Another benefit of this activity is expected to involve exchange of students who take part in this international collaborative research.

This activity will be initiated by utilizing the collaborative relationship that USU researchers have, USU lecturers who have just completed a doctoral program from a reputable overseas university or the MoU that USU has with reputable universities abroad. The output of this research is publication in a reputable international journal (Q1) and has a high impact factor.