Inbound International Students: Top Ten Universities 2023
Inbound International Students, in this case, are the students who come from abroad holding non-Indonesian passport to study at universities in Indonesia. Top Ten universities in Indonesia with the most inbound international students 2022 has been released by Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology. This ranking is carried out based on the number of inbound international students’ study permits applied and reported by the universities. Generally, this ranking is released at the end of the year, yet now it has been released to encourage all universities to implement international mobilities and report the existence of their international students.
Telkom University as the best private university in Indonesia is ranked 3rd with 867 international students. This number is spread over several programs including Degree and Non-Degree Programs. Degree Program is a regular program with a duration of 1 semester to 8 semesters where inbound international students study at Telkom University by taking the following programs:
- Bachelor Degree Program
- Master Degree Program
- Student Exchange Program
- Credit Earning/Transfer Program
Inbound International students who enrolled in the Degree Program will receive an academic transcript and diploma (Bachelor & Master Program) at the end of the program which set them apart from Non-Degree Program.
Non-Degree Program includes 1) Short Course Program, 2) Joint Class Program, 3) Engineering Service Learning, and 4) Visit Program which only take short period of time. It is the Non-Degree Programs that contribute the largest number of inbound international students at Telkom University. This is because Telkom University has a variety of interesting short courses collaborated with partner universities and consortia both nationally and internationally. For 2022, Telkom University receives quite a lot of inbound international students from the Online Joint Class Program with partner universities, including Batangas State University. Likewise, another joint course program with international consortium like ATUNet and P2A has also add numbers of inbound international students.
Inbound International Students in Telkom University
In line with Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), as the 1st rank university with highest number of inbound international students, Telkom University is optimistic that the number of inbound international students will continue to increase because 2022 is still not over and Telkom University still has on going mobility programs and other various mobility programs that will be implemented until the end of 2022.
Besides Telkom University, here are the list of top ten universities in Indonesia with the most inbound international students, according to Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology:
- Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), 793 international students
- Universitas Surabaya, 161 international students
- Telkom University, 867 international students
- Universitas Airlangga, 852 international students
- Universitas Islam Indonesia, 816 international students
- Universitas Tarumanegara, 356 international students
- Universitas Dipenogoro, 299 international students
- Universitas Indonesia, 280 international students
- Universitas Sulawesi Utara, 268 international students
- Universitas Gadjah Mada, 236 international students
Telkom University along with other universities in Indonesia for the past few years, has been aggressively organizing mobility programs to recruit inbound international students, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all challenged to keep moving forward and increasing the number of inbound international students by holding many virtual mobility programs. “Since 2020, we have tried to organize interesting virtual mobility so that internationalization activities at ITS can continue even during the pandemic”, said Maria Anityasari, an ITS Global Engagement.
We hope that this collaboration both with both Indonesian partner universities and international partner universities, will continue so that we can increase the number of inbound international students together to continue to support the internationalization program.(IO)***
