Brawijaya University

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University of Brawijaya
Universitas Brawijaya
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Established January 5, 1963
Type State university
Rector Prof. Dr. Ir. Yogi Sugito
Academic staff 1,475
Admin. staff 957
Students 30,278
Undergraduates 27,966
Postgraduates 2,312
Other students 1,978 (one-year (D-I) program)
Location Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Campus Urban 1,813,664 m²
Colors Blue     
Nickname UB
Mascot Join UB, Be The Best
Affiliations ASAIHL,[1] AUAP[2]
Website www.ub.ac.id

University of Brawijaya (UB) (Indonesian: Universitas Brawijaya), established in 1963 and located in Malang, is one of the state universities in Indonesia. UB is one of the leading universities in Indonesia with more than 30,000 students in degrees ranging from the diploma programs (one-year and two-year), Bachelor’s degree program, Master’s degree program, Doctoral degree program, and Medical Specialist program in 11 faculties.

UB campus is in the city of Malang, East Java, in a strategic location easily reached by public transportation. The campus has a pleasant climate with many trees and the cool air of Malang at 475 meters elevation.

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[edit] History

The name Universitas Brawijaya was granted by the President of the Republic of Indonesia through a wire sent on July 11, 1961. This name is derived from the title of kings of Majapahit, a great kingdom in Indonesia from the 12th to 15th centuries. University of Brawijaya transformed into a state university on January 5, 1963, following a presidential decree issued earlier in the same year. This date was later promulgated as UB's anniversary (specially called Dies Natalies among Indonesian academic society members). Before its transformation into a state university in 1967, UB had started its operation in 1957 in Malang, as a branch of University of Sawerigading Makassar. In those days, this Malang branch had two faculties: the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics. Then, on July 1, 1960, its name was changed into the Municipal University of Malang. Under the new name, two more faculties were established a few months later: the Faculty of Trade Administration and the Faculty of Agriculture.

At the time of its transformation into a state university, UB only had five faculties: Law, Economics, State Governance and Trade Management (an extension of the Faculty of Trade Administration now called the Faculty of Administrative Science), Agriculture, and Veterinary and Animal Husbandry. In 1973, the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry was then divided into the Faculty of Animal Husbandry and the Faculty of Veterinary, which were under Airlangga University. The Faculty of Engineering was established in 1963 based on a decree form the Ministry of Universities and Education Science in the same year.

In 1982, due to a change in UB's organizational structure, the Faculty of Fishery became a separate faculty (since 1977, it had been under the Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Fishery, which was later called the Faculty of Animal Husbandry). Before this date, the Faculty of Fishery had operated since 1963, in Probolinggo, a town about three hours to the northeast from Malang, as a department under UB's Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture of University of Brawijaya. The Faculty of Medicine has officially been under University of Brawijaya since 1974. Previously, since its establishment, it had been under the Foundation of Higher Education of East Java. The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was inaugurated following the issuance of a decree from the Ministry of Education and Culture dated October 21, 1993. University of Brawijaya added one more faculty: the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, which was upgraded from the Department of Agricultural Technology, which had been under the Faculty of Agriculture.

The hymn of UB was composed by a student of the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry called Yanardhana in 1963, while the Mars of UB was composed by Lilik Sugiarto in 1996. Both songs are still frequently sung.

[edit] Faculties

  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Faculty of Administrative Sciences
  • Faculty of Agriculture
  • Faculty of Animal Husbandry
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Medical
  • Faculty of Fisheries
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Agricultural Technology
  • Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
  • Faculty of Culture Studies

[edit] Student activities

These are executing units for extracurricular activities university-wide. These activity units are divided based on their characters/fields:

[edit] Students' Representative Council

  • DPM

[edit] Faith and reason interest

  • FORMASI (Student Forum for English Conversation)
  • FORDIMAPELAR (Student Forum for Reason Development)
  • UAPKM (Activity Unit of Campus Press)
  • IAAS (International Association of Agriculture Students)
  • LPM Manifest Law Faculty (Law Press students Association)
  • HMI (Islamic Students Association - It has representative in each faculty)

[edit] Sports interest

  • Basketball
  • Volleyball
  • Tennis
  • Football
  • Kempo
  • Kendo
  • Karate
  • Pencak Silat, etc

[edit] Art interest

  • Choir
  • Dance and Traditional Music of Karawitan
  • Theater
  • Band

[edit] Special interest

[edit] Student welfare interest

  • UAKI (Activity Unit for Islamic Spirituality)
  • UAKK (Activity Unit for Christian Spirituality)
  • UAKKat (Activity Unit for Catholic Spirituality)
  • UNIKAHIDHA (Activity Unit for Hindu Spirituality)
  • UAKB (Activity Unit for Buddhism Spirituality)
  • KOPMA (Student Cooperative)

[edit] Facilities and campus service

[edit] Buildings

  • Widyaloka Building is usually used for regional, national, or international seminars; important meetings such as official ones; discussion; studium general.
  • Samantha Krida is the biggest building in UB. In this building, many activities have taken place, graduation (diploma, bachelor, master and doctor) and contests, such as choir or English skill contests.
  • Student Center Building is a place where student activities or scientific seminars, student admission, contest/competition, student congress, book fair, and other activities take place.
  • Graha Medika Building is the newest building in UB, located in the Faculty of Medicine. In this building special events, such as meetings and wedding receptions, take place regularly.
  • PPI Building is a multifunction building where events such as international, national and regional seminars, workshops, etc., take place.
  • Alumni Building for the activities of UB alumni association. This building functions as a meeting hall such as working meeting, congress, and so on.

[edit] Sport and arts facilities

Sports facilities available in University of Brawijaya:

  • Volleyball Court, Behind the old central building
  • Basket ball Court, behind Samantha Krida building
  • Badminton Court, Samantha Krida building
  • Tennis Court, behind Samantha Krida

Former facilities, not longer available

  • Brawijaya Stadium, been demolished, now the space used for new Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) building


Arts facilities available in University of Brawijaya:

  • UB Homeband (activity unit for band lovers). Facilities for playing music organized by the activity unit of band lovers in UB.
  • Traditional Javanese Music and Dance

[edit] Award

A medical student was awarded the second prize in the Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) experiment competition. Using lab rats, he found salmonella bacteria can get rid of fatty residue in subject's arteries which may be used as a future remedy for people suffering from heart disease.[3]

[edit] International Cooperation

  • Miyazaki University
  • International Institute of Multicultural Studies Annaka
  • Kumamoto University
  • Shibaura Institute of Technology
  • Burapha University
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Chiayi University
  • Massey University
  • Yamaguchi University
  • Universitat Leipzig
  • University of Wollongong

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.seameo.org/asaihl/
  2. ^ http://auap.sut.ac.th/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=82
  3. ^ "Malang student claims new cure for heart disease". October 13, 2011. 

[edit] External links
Public universities
Private universities
Foreign universities,
Indonesia campus

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