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.
- Aarhus University, Denmark
- Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
- ATILIM University, Ankara, Turkey
- Beijing Jiaotong University, China
- Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
- Clark University, MA, USA
- De Montfort University, United Kingdom
- Edith Cowan University, Australia
- Evora University, Portugal
- Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
- Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- Kozminski University, Poland
- Mindanaou State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines
- Osaka University, Suita, Japan
- Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal
- Rennes School of Business, France
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, Sweden
- Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Sungkyunkwan University
- Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- University at Albany, NY, USA
- University of California Berkeley, USA
- University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
- University of Derby, United Kingdom
- University of Michigan, MI, USA
- University of Oslo, Norway
- Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Zittau/Gorlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany