| Padjadjaran University | |
|---|---|
| Universitas Padjajaran | |
| Established | September 11, 1957 |
| Type | State university |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. Ir. Ganjar Kurnia, DEA |
| Students | 43.519(2008) |
| Postgraduates | 2.027 |
| Doctoral students | 1.346 |
| Location | Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
| Campus |
Dipatiukur Campus, Bandung Jatinangor Campus, Sumedang |
| Nickname | UNPAD |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL, AUAP[1] |
| Website | http://www.unpad.ac.id/ |
Universitas Padjadjaran (Padjadjaran University or UNPAD) is an institution of higher learning located in Bandung, which is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. After a thoroughful processes, on the 11th of September 1957, Unpad was established through the Government Regulation No. 37 of 1957 and officially opened by the President of Republic Indonesia Soekarno on the 24th of September 1957.
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Through the initiative of wealthy citizens of West Java, the Universitas Padjadjaran was established on September 11, 1957, and ratified through Government Regulation No. 37 thirteen days later.
When established, the university had only four departments: Law, Economics, Medicine, and Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Now it has developed into 16 faculties and several postgraduate programmes, 44 undergraduate programmes (Strata 1/S1), two specialist programmes, nine doctorate programmes (Strata 3/S3), 19 Master's degree programmes (Strata 2/S2), five profession programmes, one four-year diploma program (D4), and 32 three-year diploma programs (D3).
Initially established in Bandung, almost all undergraduate departments have been relocated to Jatinangor, a town near Sumedang, except for the departments of Law and Economics. Postgraduate departments still have their teaching facilities in Bandung.
For a time, Semaun was on the economics faculty.
The faculty has five main buildings at the Jatinangor campus:
Each tutorial room was completed with multimedia facilities (computer and LCD) for education presentation. The faculty has two parallel tutorial rooms at A3 and A5. Beside those rooms, there are many spaces spread at Hasan Sadikin Hospital.
The faculty has the main library at Jatinangor campus and many libraries at each departments of the faculty as well as the library at Hasan Sadikin Hospital.
The main library in A3 has 30.836 holdings (textbooks, national and international journals, newsletter, magazine, dissertation/thesis/final papers). Besides those, the library has electronics journals which provides 300 titles with full and free access by all faculty members. The faculty has serious concern for the importance of the library's role in supporting, teaching and learning process.
The library has comfortable air-conditioned rooms, reading rooms (100 users capacity), computer facilities connected to the internet to access electronic journal (e-library).
The aim of the service is to give users easy way for information searching without any limitation by distance as well as by time.
The faculty has four libraries to support tutorial activities:
The faculty has student dormitories. The first dormitory was built in 2006 (three floors and 50 bedrooms).
Previously the dormitories were accommodation facilities for all international students during their first year of study. The dormitory were also built to give students chances to adapt during their first year.
Beside its function in providing comfortable accommodation, in the dormitory students are trained to have responsibilities, integrity and cooperation with students who have differences in race, religion, culture and environment. Living in the dormitory makes all students actively participate in many students activities and build their discipline.
In September 2011, the University has announced to build a shopping centre and a three storey hotel in Jl. Dago which the profits from this business would be used to finance the university.[2]