University of Muhammadiyah Malang Getting rank "A"

 










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TEMPO.CO, Malang - Malang Muhammadiyah University is the only university in East Java that received an A rating from the institutional accreditation of National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT) Ministry of Education and Culture in 2013.

Head of Public Relations UMM, Nasrullah, said, in 2012, none of the 14 colleges that receive accreditation certificate A. This year, as many as 28 universities assessed BAN-PT and UMM rank or value A with seven other universities. All is applicable accreditation ratings of five years from 2013 to 2018.

There are 8 winners of universities for rank A, five of them are state universities (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bogor Agricultural University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universitas Indonesia and Universitas Hasanuddin). While two private colleges are UMM and Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta. Universities in Malang who got first rank A accreditation is UB.

"Alhamdulillah, the A of rank or institutional accreditation makes us proud and would be a big challenge for us to maintain as well as continuing to improve the quality of education. Previously, we were able to rank B for five years," said Nasrullah, Wednesday, March 6, 2013.

According to the Communication Faculty, accreditation of UMM held on 13 to 15 December 2012, starting with gathering Accreditation Forms and Self Evaluation Report, followed by the implementation of the desk evaluation and assessment field (site visit) by four assessors from BAN.

As the result, final score 364 UMM got rated A as stated in the Decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture No. 074/SK/BAN-PT/Ak-IV/PT/II/2013 dated February 21, 2013, signed by the Chairman of BAN-PT Mansur Ramli. This decree is received by UMM yesterday.

A ranking of receipt, said Nasrullah, means that UMM become one of the leading colleges and excel that gets right to greater autonomy, such as the right to select the research proposals from academic community UMM to the Directorate General of Higher Education and eligible for special grant funds for accredited universities A, such as grants from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Research and Technology.

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