List of The Best Universities in Solo Indonesia
Maybe not many people know about this city. Solo City is one of Central Java province’s cities, located not far from Yogyakarta. If taken by electric train, it only takes 1 hour. However, this city also has an international standard airport as well. So, even in this city, transportation is not difficult. Solo itself is the mention of the branding name or popular name of the town of Surakarta. Because administratively, this city is called Surakarta. So, Solo and Surakarta are the names of the same village. This city also has several universities that can be selected because they are included in the ranks of the best national universities.
Sebelas Maret University (UNS)
Sebelas Maret University, or UNS, has a strategic location in the center of Solo. This college is one of the state universities in the city of Solo. There are 13 faculties with two schools covering education programs ranging from vocational, undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Not inferior to other public universities, UNS is ranked 691st in the world or 5th in Indonesia, according to the UniRank ranking agency. In addition, Indonesia is ranked 367th in the world or 6th in Indonesia in the web of repositories ranking or 1,223 in the world or 6th in Indonesia in the Webometrics ranking. UNS also has excellent accreditation and is ISO certified. Recently UNS was also included in the rankings in THE Asia University Rankings measuring university performance based on five aspects, namely teaching (25%), research (30%), research influence-citations (30%), international outlook (7.5%) ), and industry income (7.5%). The UNS scores respectively are teaching (21.8), research (16.7), citations (24.4), international outlook (25), and industry income (38.3), ranking 401-500 Asia.
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Surakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMS)
Not only in Yogyakarta but the Muhammadiyah foundation also established one of the best universities in Solo. Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, or UMS, has 12 faculties with undergraduate programs, ten postgraduate programs, and two doctoral programs. This university is also ranked in the top 400 universities in Asia in the QS World University Ranking. UMS is one of the best private universities compared to other Muhammadiyah universities. Interestingly, this college has been ranked the 3rd best Islamic university in the world. Thus, more than 200 students from other countries were interested in joining to gain knowledge at this college.
There are not too many tertiary institutions in this city, but there are several other choices that can be used as references for other universities, such as:
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- Universitas Islam Batik (UNIBA)
- Universitas Kristen Surakarta
- Universtias Nahdatul Ulama (UNU)
- Universitas Sahid Surakarta (USAHID)
- Universitas Setia Budi (USB)
- Universitas Slamet Riyadi
- Universitas Surakarta (UNSA)
- Universitas Tunas Pembangunan (UTP)
- Universitas Duta Bangsa
- IAIN Surakarta
- ISI Surakarta
From the list of universities above, several universities have low fees because the city of Solo is also suitable for students. After all, the cost of living is cheap too. Several universities with low expenses, namely UNS, UMS, IAIN Surakarta, ISI Surakarta, and UTP Surakarta. Let’s study in Solo, Indonesia!
