Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Admission Overview - UI (Indonesia University)


From its founding in 1849, academic excellence has been the hallmark of Universitas Indonesia (UI), one of the foremost research and teaching of the world class universities. UI students acquire benefits from the University’s position as a national and international crossroads for intellectual, political, cultural, and artistic exchange. Today, UI offers its students with global standard educational learning, an exceptional curriculum and mentoring experiences and supported by professionally renowned faculty. Students accepted in UI are very competitive, in which only 5% of applicants are accepted yearly. For example in the year 2008 only 5.000 students accepted out of 100.000 applicants. UI acknowledge the importance of graduate students and by the year 2012 more than 50% of students are for Master and Doctoral studies. UI produces the highest and world class number of PhD graduates. International academic research publications produced by faculty-staff and PhD students are increasing tremendously. Our commitment is to produce high quality standard of researchers and by 2012 UI will graduate more than 500 PhDs a year. 
Undergraduate Admission 

As the leading university in Asia, UI is a magnet to attract many applicants nationally and internationally. UI offers a world standard of opportunities for social interaction, a safe and comfortable place to live, or information about your education and career options. To be able to become a part of highly qualified undergraduate students, candidates must demonstrate readiness to study through some specific standard of achievement in a common entry examination. 
UI has proposed several admission methods for undergraduate program such as:
PPKB (Achievement and Equal Education Opportunity) 
SIMAK (UI Entrance Examination) 
SNMPTN (National Selection to Entrance State University) 
KI (International Class) 
KSDI (Collaboration with Local Government and Industry). 

Master and Doctoral Admission

Admission to Master program requires a good Honor at Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and in the subject or related discipline. For Doctoral program, candidate must display an excellent record and capability in conducting academic research. As one of the leading research university, UI is fully committed to the scientific advancement. In addition, Master and Doctoral programs require candidates to demonstrate readiness to study through a specific standard of achievement in:
A common placement examination (eg., the subject GRE, GMAT)
A program-administered placement test in the relevant field (which may also consist of a structured interview to test the candidate’s understanding of the field)



UMB News

Almost 100,000 students this weekend are participating across the country in a two-day Joint Admission Test (UMB) to contest just over 10,000 seats at five state universities. 

The number of participants this year increased 27 percent to 98,686 from a year ago. 

The students are competing to secure 10,672 seats at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta State University and Syarief Hidayatullah Islamic State University in Jakarta, North Sumatra University in Medan and Hasanuddin University in Makassar. 

According to the national admission test for new university students association (SPMB), which was formed by the five universities to regulate admissions, only 77,360 candidates competed last year for 12,921 available seats. 

"This year, the ratio of candidates to university seats is 9:1," SPMB association chairman Asman Boedi Santoso said Saturday, adding that in 2007 the ration was 6:1. 

He said the team was surprised by the increase in the number of participants. 

"It's beyond our expectation. For Jakarta, for example, we actually estimated the test would be taken by about 30,000 candidates, but the fact is that it has drawn more than 49,000 students," he said. 

The test is being held from Saturday to Sunday at hundreds of schools in several cities, including Ambon in Maluku, Jakarta, Jayapura in Papua, Lampung, Makassar in South Sulawesi, Manado in North Sulawesi, Medan and Padang in West Sumatra, Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Surabaya in East Java and Yogyakarta. 

However, Spmb Secretary said some participants had come late to their exams. 

"They lost their way because they misread their test numbers and ended up going to the wrong addresses. However, they were still able to take the exam," she said. 

In Jakarta, disabled students are taking the exams at the SPMB association's office in Salemba, Central Jakarta. Blind students were each assisted by two volunteers. 

Wijaya, an 18-year old blind participant said the first day had gone smoothly.

Regards,

Dewan