University of Brawijaya


The University of Brawijaya, was established in 5 January 1963 and located in Malang. It is an autonomous state university in Indonesia. University of Brawijaya is recognized as one of the elite campuses in Indonesia and consistently ranked 5th in national level by official release from Kemenristekdikti along with University of Indonesia, Bogor Agricultural University, Gadjah Mada University, and Bandung Institute of Technology. In International level, University of Brawijaya ranked 51st in Asia and 400th Worldwide, thus made University of Brawijaya as one of few Indonesian universities which indexed by QS World University Rankings.
University of Brawijaya has 55,469 students, ranging from the vocational program, Bachelor’s, Master’s program, Doctoral degree program, and Medical Specialist program in 18 faculties and 221 departments.
University of Brawijaya has four campuses, two of them located in Malang at Veteran and Dieng. Then the rest are in Kediri and Jakarta. The main campus is located in the western part of Malang City with the total area of 60 hectares. It's very strategic location and has great infrastructure. The campus has pleasant climate with many trees and cool air.
Overall, Brawijaya possessed 9,813,664 m2 or 981 hectares and its endowment fund reached 5.12 trillion Rupiah. University of Brawijaya considered as the second biggest and wealthiest university in the country, after University of Indonesia.

History

The name of Brawijaya was granted by the president of the Republic of Indonesia through a wire sent on 11 July 1961. This name is derived from the title of kings of Majapahit, a great kingdom in Indonesia from the twelfth to fifteenth century. The University of Brawijaya transformed into a state university on 5 January 1963, following a presidential decree issued earlier in the same year. This date was later promulgated as University of Brawijaya's anniversary. Before its transformation into a state university in 1967, University of Brawijaya had started its operation in 1957 in Malang, as a branch of the University of Sawerigading Makassar. In those days, this Malang branch had two faculties: Law and Economics. Then, on 1 July 1960, its name was changed to the Municipal University of Malang. Under the new name, two more faculties were established a few months later: Administration Sciences and Agriculture.
At the time of its transformation into a state university, University of Brawijaya had five faculties: Law, Economics, State Governance and Trade Management, 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 University of Brawijaya's organizational structure, the Faculty of Fishery became a separate faculty. 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 University of Brawijaya's Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture of University of Brawijaya. The Faculty of Medicine has officially been under University of Brawijaya since 1974. 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 a decree from the Ministry of Education and Culture dated October 21, 1993. The 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 University of Brawijaya was composed by a student of the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry called Yanardhana in 1963, while the Mars of University of Brawijaya was composed by Lilik Sugiarto in 1996. Both songs are still frequently sung.

Faculties

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

Students' Representative Council

Buildings

Sports facilities:
Arts facilities:
Rest facilities:
Former facilities:
A medical student was awarded the second prize in the Indonesian Science Institute 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.

International cooperation