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The Best Five Universities in Indonesia
Where do you find the best universities in the world? Well, pretty much anywhere - including Indonesia! Cool, huh? In Indonesia you can find plenty of top-ranked universities that take their rightful place next to some of the biggest international university names out there.
Indonesia's universities, colleges, medical schools, engineering schools, and law
schools are highly respected and well-known in the education and academic communities, and they continue to offer prestigious Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D programmes for smart, driven adventurers like you. Feel free to choose from some of the most competitive degrees in the best universities in Indonesia.
Eight universities in Indonesia are featured among the world’s best in the QS World University Rankings® 2021, including three in the top 450. These are:
University of Indonesia
Established in 1849, Universitas Indonesia (University of Indonesia, or UI) is the
oldest university in Indonesia and also joint 305th in the World University Rankings. Universitas Indonesia also ranks 59th in the QS Asia University Rankings, and has campuses in Depok, West Java and Jakarta. The university’s library is considered the largest in Southeast Asia, with a capacity of 1.5million books.
Universitas Indonesia underwent substantial reform in 2007, which led to an
increase in revenue and research publications. The university’s distinctive logo signifies the idea of kala-makara (the two sources of energy in nature, from the sun and the Earth); the tree represents science and its branches and buds which will blossom into new knowledge, while the water pouring down represents the works of science.
Bandung Institute of Technology
Ranked joint 313th in the world rankings, and 62nd in the Asia rankings, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) was originally opened in 1920 as a branch of the Dutch Delft Institute of Technology. It was then known as Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng, but was renamed when it became a separate academic entity in 1959. ITB has since become an internationally recognized university, and is ranked among the top 300 institutions in the world for mechanical engineering. It teaches around 20,000 students and is located in Bandung (one of Indonesia’s largest cities) with its campuses making up a total area of 770,000 square meters.
Gadjah Mada University
Another of the most prestigious universities in Indonesia, Gadjah Mada
University (UGM) is ranked joint 254th in the QS World University Rankings and joint 57th in Asia. Founded in 1949, it’s the largest university in the country, with around 50,000 students enrolled in 18 faculties, including 1,187 foreign students. Its 360-acre main campus is located in one of the country’s smaller cities, Yogyakarta, helping to earn the city a reputation as a center of education. UGM has recently been implementing an "educopolis area", creating an encouraging learning environment by developing multidisciplinary collaborations and responding to key environmental issues.
IPB University
IPB University is a higher education institution that produces both national and internationally acclaimed innovations. For ten years in a row (2008-2018), IPB University has been the number one university in Indonesia in terms of producing the most innovations in the country. This achievement was appraised by the Business Innovation Center of Indonesia’s Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education with the award of Indonesia’s Most Prospective Innovation.
IPB University offers various courses in tertiary education, from diploma,
undergraduate, post-graduate, to professional program. Currently, there are nine faculties, namely: Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Fisheries and Marine Science, Animal Science, Forestryand Environment, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Economics and Management, and Human Ecology, as well as three schools, namely: Business School, Graduate School, and VocationalSchool.
IPB University Ranked #1 in South-East Asia in the QS World University Ranking
by Subject Agriculture and Forestry, making IPB University the best agricultural university in Indonesia. IPB University has also placed #511-520 in the QS World University Ranking and #112 in the QS Asia University Ranking. As a research university, IPB has 24 research centers with agendas focusing on food, energy, environment, poverty alleviation, and biomedicine. We have launched the new concept of Agro-Maritime 4.0 to strengthen the interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research foci. In 2021, IPB University has 37 consortia, including 9 new consortia. As many as 1000 students graduate from IPB University each year, creating a strong network of over 100,000 alumni across numerous disciplines, working as leaders in their respective fields.
IPB university is one of the founding higher education institutions in Indonesia,
third best university nationwide, and constituted within the Top 100 universities in the world by subject Agriculture and Forestry. IPB university encourages our students and staffs to purse science through research and innovation. We take pride in our strengths: agriculture (comprehensively in several aspects, such as: engineering and technology. Socioeconomics and human dimension), animal and veterinary science, fisheries and marine science, forestry, and other life- based research.
IPB University motivates our civitas to think globally in the era of the 4.0 industry through several international programs that may vary: short courses, exchanges, mobilities, credit earnings, international publication scholarships, double/joint degrees, and stadium generals.
Airlangga University
Airlangga University Postgraduate program has been founded since November
10, 1954. The promotion to get the doctorate was held for the first time in 1959. Thus, in 1959 until 1976, Airlangga University has generated ten doctors. On that time, the free program was used to get the doctorate title.Since 1975, the Minister of Academic and Culture has been formulated the basic policy of the Higher Education development. In accordance with it, Airlangga University start to develop the program of post graduate and graduate studies with three study programs; Basic Medicine Science, Dentistry Science, and Law Science in 1976. For the next, several study programs are opened until now.In fact, the postgraduate program is started after the Dean inauguration based on letter of the Minister of Academic and Culture on March 10, 1983. Thus, the post graduate programs are considered since 1983 and start the class on September 1983.After years, based on the Rector decision on July 30, 2007, the eighteenth masters/magisters programs have been delivered to each Faculties in order to get the more effective and efficient education in Airlangga University.
