Universitas Indonesia (UI)

Universitas Indonesia (UI) is the country's most prestigious public university. Its origins go back to 1849 with the medical school of Batavia, and it was established as a national university in 1950. With its campuses in Depok and Salemba in Jakarta, it regularly tops Indonesian rankings and stands among the best universities in Asia. UI is structured in faculties covering medicine, law, economics and business, engineering, social and political sciences, the humanities, psychology, public health, mathematics and natural sciences, computer science, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, and health, together with business and environment schools. Its graduate school is the largest in the country and the university maintains an exceptionally dense network of international partnerships. Tuition follows the national UKT system, divided into five groups, with group 1 set at IDR 500,000 per semester and group 2 at IDR 1,000,000 for all undergraduate programmes; independently admitted students also pay a one-off institutional development contribution (IPI). Graduate programmes carry their own per-programme rates, set annually by rectoral decision.