Banjarmasin, S Kalimatan (ANTARA) - The University of Lambung Mangkurat (ULM) received a grant of IDR10 billion from the District Government of Kotabaru to open campus in the district in a program called as Study Program Outside the Main Campus (PSDKU).
"We thank the Regent of Kotabaru H. Sayed Jafar for his trust in supporting the realization of ULM's PSDKU in Kotabaru," said ULM Chancellor Professor Ahmad Alim Bachri in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Thursday.
He said Kotabaru government and ULM had agreed to work together to realize PSDKU for the sake of enhancing education for regional's sons and daughters, especially Kotabaru.
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The ULM's PSDKU program provides five postgraduate study program. They are Master in Educational Administration, Master in Development Studies, Master in Civil Engineering, Master in Management, and Master in Public Health.
New student admissions is opened for the first time for the 2024/2025 academic year.
Alim hopes the ULM's PSDKU program continue to develop to cover other areas in South Kalimantan, and even outside the province on the Island of Kalimantan or Borneo.
"This is ULM's commitment as the best state university in Kalimantan to reach more students without being limited by distance and time," he pointed out.
PSDKU is a program of a university to provide a number of study programs which location is far from the main campus.
Based on Permenristekdikti (Regulation of the Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education) No 1 of 2017 article 6 paraghraph 2 b, the requirement to open PSDKU is to have the same major as the main campus with A or superior accreditation.
ULM's main campus in Banjarmasin, for instance, has Master in Educational Administration, so it also has this major at ULM's PSDKU in Kotabaru.
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