the Best Private University in Indonesia
Bandung, Telkom University successfully achieved several honors at once which made Telkom University becoming the best private university in Indonesia in July 2018. The rapid growth of Telkom University’s education quality leads the university in various recognition. Those honors are SCIMAGO, The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti), Webometrics, and UniRank.
Proudly nominated as the best university within three years in a row for reputable scientific publications based on Science and Technology Index (SINTA) by The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti). Which is mean Telkom University is the 1st private university that publish the biggest number of research. Kemenristekdikti’s education quality rated by four main components: Institutional quality, quality of human resources (HR), quality of student activities, quality of research and scientific publications.
Furthermore, Telkom University scale up internationally as the best private university in Indonesia in International journal indexed by SCOPUS based on SCIMAGO (The SCImago Journal & Country Rank) in the website www.scimagojr.com. SCIMAGO is a research group of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcala de Henares, dedicated to information analysis, representation and retrieval through visualization techniques. SCIMAGO (The SCImago Journal & Country Rank) is a publicly available portal that includes journals and country scientific indicators which developed from information contained in the Scopus database.
Meanwhile, Webomatrics scales the universities in another way. Webomatrics’s institution quality rated by data: Presence, Impact. Openness and Excellence. Presence is the amount of the university’s website available in Google. Impact is the unique amount of external links (amount of backlinks) received by the university web domains (in links) detected by the Google search engine. Openness is the number of document files, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint are online / open under the domain of university websites detected by the Google Scholar search engine. Excellence is the number of scientific articles of the respective college publications indexed at Scimago Institution Ranking and in Google Scholar.
UniRank or formerly known as 4ICU (4 International Colleges and Universities) institution quality rated by: institution accreditation, the institution has to be at least consist of 4 years study program of undergraduate or post-graduate programs, and the institution provides traditional or face to face learning method of teaching.
Based on these criteria from; SCIMAGO, Kemenristekdikti, Webomatrics and UniRank combined all together, Telkom University in this 2018 successfully achieved the best private university in the whole country and rank 6thposition among all Universities in the country. Telkom University is dedicated to improve the institution quality and performance since we are here creating the future!