Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) is a public university located in Yogyakarta on the island of Java. Founded in 1949, it is Indonesia's oldest university and remains one of the country's two most prestigious institutions, regularly ranked first or second nationally and featured in world rankings. UGM has eighteen faculties covering medicine, law, economics and business, engineering, agriculture, forestry, pharmacy, social and political sciences, veterinary medicine, mathematics and natural sciences, biology, psychology, the humanities, geography, tropical agriculture and public health. Its graduate school, one of the largest in the country, administers around one hundred master's and doctoral programmes. Tuition follows the national "Pendidikan Unggul" UKT system, divided into six groups according to family economic capacity with subsidies of up to 100%: the 75%-subsidised bands pay around IDR 3,000,000 per semester, while graduate programmes cost from about IDR 8,000,000 to IDR 25,000,000 per semester depending on the discipline, with the common doctoral rate set at approximately IDR 25,000,000 per semester for science tracks.