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Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) is a public university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, founded in 1949.
- Type
- Public university
- Location
- Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Founded
- 1949
- Teaching language
- Indonesian, English
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Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) is a public research university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Founded on 19 December 1949, shortly after Indonesian independence, it was the first university established by the Indonesian government and remains one of the country's largest.
UGM's main campus in the Bulaksumur area of Sleman occupies a large area north of Yogyakarta city centre. Its eighteen faculties and vocational school span medicine, public health and nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, engineering, mathematics and natural sciences, agriculture, forestry, animal science, agricultural technology, biology, geography, economics and business, law, social and political sciences, psychology, philosophy and cultural sciences. UGM is known for its community service programme (KKN), which sends students to work in villages across Indonesia.
Teaching is mainly in Indonesian, with international undergraduate programmes and many graduate programmes taught in English. Admission is through national selection (SNBP and SNBT) and UGM's own entrance routes.
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Courses at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) are taught in Indonesian, English.
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Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) was founded in 1949.
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