Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) was established on October 20, 1954 in Bandung, and was officially inaugurated by the Indonesian Minister of Education, Mr. Muhammad Yamin. UPI was initially a Perguruan Tinggi Pendidikan Guru (PTPG) or Teachers College which has undergone a metamorphosis to become a public university with wide-autonomy called PTNBH (Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Berbadan Hukum).
There are a number of faculties:
Striving for creating and developing innovative research, we build our research with local-wisdom perspectives. Besides focusing on educational theories and practices, which is our strongest point, we engage in research from variety of disciplines in order to contribute for the strategic solutions and the betterment of the society.
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Student Center as a place to develop students’ managerial skills and to accommodate and develop their creativities.
Convenient dormitories located in main campus and all regional campuses—PGSD Cibiru, Purwakarta, Tasikmalaya and Serang.
UPI has a library with a collection of about 69,802 tittles or 143,836 copies. The library opens weekdays 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, except Saturdays, it closes at 12:30 PM.
Polyclinic which provides services in general health and dental-hygiene for students, teaching and administration staff members.
The university is equipped with 123 classrooms fully accessible during office hours from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM. It also has as many as 70 laboratory rooms located in eight faculties, postgraduate school and 5 regional campuses.
As UPI has a faculty with specialization on Health and Sport education, it also has equipped with various kind of sport facilities such as Sport infrastructures which include Sport Hall, Football Fields, Volleyball Fields, Badminton Fields, Basketball Fields, Softball Fields, Tennis Fields, Golf Driving Range, Swimming Pool, to nurture and develop students’ talents and skills. These facilities are accessible by all of UPI staffs and students with Term and condition applied.
There are various kind of students association in UPI consists of University level, Postgraduate School, Faculties, Departments, Study Programs and Regional Colleges.
At the national level, UPI has obtained University Accreditation with A predicate from the National Accreditation Board of Higher Education (BAN-PT)
58.33% of study programs at UPI have been accredited with A predicate from BAN-PT. 7 study programs have obtained an excellent predicate. 16.67% of study programs have obtained B predicate, while 20.83% of study programs still get minimum accreditation because it is a new study program.
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