Yogyakarta State University

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Yogyakarta State University (formerly IKIP Yogyakarta or Yogyakarta Institute of Teacher Education and Educational Sciences) was founded on May 21, 1964. Historically, IKIP Yogyakarta was a merger of two educational institutions: the Faculty of Pedagogy of Gadjah Mada University and the Institute of Teacher Education. These two institutions offered study programs of educational sciences and teacher education. The merger itself was mandated by the Presidential Decree of the Republic of Indonesia, Number I/1963.

About thirty-six years later, on August 4, 1999, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, by Presidential Decree No. 93/1999, officially declared that IKIP Yogyakarta was converted into Yogyakarta State University (abbreviated as YSU) with a broader mandate. This university is also legitimate to offer non-education study programs. The conversion of IKIP Yogyakarta into a university was based on some considerations. One of them is the observation that an educational institution's organizational structure was insufficient to support scientific development and that the number of graduates of IKIP Yogyakarta who entered non-teaching fields also increased. In carrying out the broader mandate, YSU initially offered 12 non-education study programs at the bachelor level and three-year undergraduate diploma levels in the following faculties:

• the Faculty of Languages and Arts Education
• the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Education
• the Faculty of Engineering and Vocational Education

The non-education study programs include those offered in the Faculty of Sport Sciences and the Faculty of Economics.

By 2025 UNY envisions that the university will have enjoyed a world-class education with piety, autonomy, and intellectuality as the foundational values. Mission UNY has some missions as follows:

• Conducting professional education, academic education, and vocational education in teacher training with the support of non-educational fields to facilitate the development of students in becoming graduates who uphold piety, autonomy, and intellectuality.
• Conducting researches to unearth and disseminate knowledge, to invent and disseminate technology, to create and disseminate arts, and to develop and disseminate sports to improve individual and social welfares supporting regional and national developments and answering global challenges
• Conducting community services and empowerment to enhance the development of human, social, and natural potentials to achieve social welfare
• Establishing good university governance and a clean university government in implementing the university autonomy.

UNY has some goals as to develop pious, autonomous. Intellectual graduates who uphold the values of Pancasila (the Five Principles of the Republic of Indonesia)m to unearth and disseminate, to invent and disseminate technology, to create and disseminate arts, and to develop and disseminate sports which support the regional and national development and contribute to answering global challenges, to conduct community service and empowerment activities to enhance the development of human, social, and natural potentials to achieve the social welfare, to establish good university governance and clean university government in implementing the university autonomy.

Despite its new status as a university, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta has made many efforts to improve its quality to be a leading university. Those improvements are expected to support its endeavors to become a world-class university. Up to the middle of 2017, the profile is as follows:

• Seven faculties
• One graduate school
• 64 undergraduate programs (53 bachelors and 11 three-year-diploma)
• 37 graduate study programs (30 masters and seven doctoral)
• 25,146 undergraduate students (2017)
• 3,405 graduate students (2017)
• 85 international students
• 1,067 faculty members (professors: 59, doctoral degree holders: 212) 964 administrative staff
• 5,831 accepted applications out of 97,033 applications submitted in 2017,
• Two types of scholarship available for foreign students
• Darmasiswa RI Scholarship Program
• Developing Countries Partnership Scholarship
• 1131 research studies from 2010-2017,
• 9 (7 national and two international) research studies obtaining intellectual property rights in 2012

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