Top 15 Universities According to the Directorate General of Higher Education

Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) was named the best university by the Directorate General of Higher Education (Ditjen Dikti) of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) in 2020. IPB achieved this position by receiving a score of 3.648 from four assessment indicators: input, output, process, and outcome.

Furthermore, IPB led in the process, output, and outcome indicators. The scores achieved by IPB in these three indicators were 3.757, 3.554, and 3.427 respectively.

University of Indonesia (UI) and Gadjah Mada University (UGM) followed with scores of 3.414 and 3.315 respectively. The next best universities were Airlangga University (Unair) with a score of 3.299 and Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) with 3.275.

These five universities are included in cluster 1 along with 10 other universities. Ditjen Dikti Kemendikbud grouped thousands of universities in Indonesia into four clusters, ranging from 1 to 5. This clustering was done according to the level of development of each university.

The input indicator contributed 20% to the Ditjen Dikti Kemendikbud assessment. This indicator consists of the percentage of lecturers with doctoral degrees (S3), lecturers holding senior lecturer and professor positions, the student-to-lecturer ratio, the number of foreign students, and the number of lecturers working as practitioners in industry for at least six months.

The process indicator contributed 25%, consisting of the assessment of university and study program accreditation, university collaborations, online learning, the implementation of the Merdeka Campus program, and the completeness of reports. The output indicator, which also contributed 25%, consisted of the assessment of the number of scientific articles, research performance, student performance, and the number of internationally certified study programs.

Meanwhile, the outcome indicator had a weight of 30%. This indicator includes the assessment of innovation performance, the number of graduates who obtained employment within six months, the number of citations per lecturer, and community service performance.