SEMARANG – The ranking of Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) in the list of the best universities in Indonesia had improved by entering the top 3 in 2021 from the position in 2020 which was ranked 4th nationally. Based on the publication of the higher education rating agency 4 International College & Universities (4ICU) UniRank, UNDIP was in the top three with Universitas Gajah Mada (UGM) in first place, and Universitas Indonesia (UI) in second place.

UniRank was the result of the ranking of the higher education institutions that were routinely carried out by the 4ICU. Referring to the publication on the https://www.4icu.org/id/ website in 2021, 577 universities in Indonesia were included in the ranking. The distribution based on the existence of universities included in the UniRank ranking was the East Java with 98 universities (PT), West Java with 56 PT, Jakarta with 55 PT, Central Java with 51 PT, North Sumatra with 35 PT, Yogyakarta with 26 PT, South Sulawesi with 23 PT, Banten with 20 PT, and for West Sumatra and South Sumatra with respectively 16 PT.

Meanwhile, there were the Aceh Province with 15 PT; followed by the provinces of West Sumatra, South Sumatra, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara, each of which had 14 PT rated the UniRank. The North Sulawesi Province and Lampung Province had 11 ranked PTs, while Riau and East Kalimantan with 10 PT. Moreover, the other provinces had less than 10 universities ranked by UniRank.

UniRank required three criteria for universities to be included in its ranking. The first requirement was that it must have been accredited by the appropriate institution  related on the higher education in each country. The second one was that it must offer a four-year undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. The third requirement was to provide the education in traditional, face-to-face and non-distance formats.

The technical assessment for the UniRank was carried out using an algorithm system from five websites that were considered neutral and independent, namely the Moz Domain Authority, Alexa Global Rank, SimilarWeb Global Rank, Majestic Reffering Domains, and Majestic Trust Flow. “Our goal is to provide non-academic rankings of the best universities in Indonesia based on valid, unbiased and unaffected web metrics, derived from independent web information sources, not from data submitted by the universities,” this was the statement accompanying the publication of the 2021 edition of the 4ICU UniRank.

Universitas Diponegoro was a public higher education institution with the status of PTN BH (Legal Entity State Higher Education) which was established in Semarang in 1957. Undip with A Accreditation (Excellent) had 11 faculties, one graduate school and one vocational school. Currently, Undip was one of the largest campuses in Indonesia, with a population of around 35,000 to 39,999 students.

The education levels held by Undip were very complete, ranging from the diploma programs (D III), applied undergraduate (D IV), undergraduate, professional, specialist, master or strata-2 program and doctoral or strata-3 program. Currently, there were 167 study programs carried out by Undip, with the ratio of lecturers that were still relevant. This campus, which was located in the city of Semarang, was determined to create a minimum of 10% of its teaching staff with professor predicate.

The following information was the ranking of the 10 best universities in Indonesia according to the 2021 edition of UniRank: 1. Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta; Universitas Indonesia (UI) Depok, West Java; 3. Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) Semarang; 4. Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) ) Bandung; 5. Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) Sleman, Yogyakarta, 6. Universitas Brawijaya (UB) Malang; 7. Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) Surabaya; 8. Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta; 9. Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Bogor, West Java; 10. Universitas Lampung (UNILA) Bandar Lampung.

Source: undip.ac.id