Universitas Tanjungpura

Universitas Tanjungpura (Untan) is the first state university in Pontianak with around 5,000 students enrolling every year. Untan offers 6 diploma programs, 64  undergraduate programs, 21 master programs, 2 doctoral programs, and 3 profession programs and has 9 Faculties: Law, Economics, Agriculture, Engineering, Social and Political Sciences, Teacher Training and Education, Forestry, Mathematics and Natural Science, and Medicine. Graduates of Untan have been very well accepted at government institutions, business companies, and international organizations.

Untan has been working to standardize its services to meet international requirements. This is reflected in its vision that by 2020 Untan graduates will play an important role to advance science and technology in the international community. Pursuing its international compatibility, Untan is regularly sending its lecturers to take master’s or doctoral degrees to high-ranking universities around the world. Recently, Untan has established international cooperation with both business and governmental organizations, among others: HANBAN (Confucius Institute Headquarters), Guangxi University for Nationalities, Embassy of the United States, British Council Indonesia, Rice Research Institute of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institut Francais Indonesia, University of Poitiers, Sabre Foundation, LIPPO Group, USAID-HELM, and IDB. Besides, Untan also runs eighteen (18) research centers which mostly concern four major areas: tropical wet and peat soil; sustainable energy; border study; and ethnic and biodiversity.

VISION

A Center of scientific information as well as a preservation institution in West Kalimantan graduating alumni having morals of Pancasila and ability to compete in an international scope.

MISSION

To serve qualified education, research and community services to graduate alumni able to understand, develop and promote knowledge, technology and arts, and able to provide direction for the development in accordance with their own academic specialties.

AIMS

To prepare students to become community members who have academic and/or professional skills that can apply, develop and/or create knowledge, technology and/or arts.

To develop and disseminate knowledge, technology and/or arts to advance community life and to enrich national culture.