Univesitas Muhammadiyah Malang bekerjasama internasional dengan berbagai universitas luar negeri dalam kegiatan penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat. Hasil kerjasama penelitian dan pengabdian telah dipublikasikan di jurnal ilmiah. Berbagai universitas yang bekerjasama dalam penelitian dengan UMM adalah sebagai berikut.

1. Aarhus University, Denmark
2. Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
3. ATILIM University, Ankara, Turkey
4. Beijing Jiaotong University, China
5. Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
6. Clark University, MA, USA
7. De Montfort University, United Kingdom
8. Edith Cowan University, Australia
9. Evora University, Portugal
10. Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
11. Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
12. Khon Kaen University, Thailand
13. Kozminski University, Poland
14. Mindanaou State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines
15. Osaka University, Suita, Japan
16. Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal
17. Rennes School of Business, France
18. Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, Sweden
19. Reykjavik University, Iceland
20. Sungkyunkwan University
21. Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
22. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
23. University at Albany, NY, USA
24. University of California Berkeley, USA
25. University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
26. University of Derby, United Kingdom
27. University of Michigan, MI, USA
28. University of Oslo, Norway
29. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
30. Zittau/Gorlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany