Bambang Cipto was elected and endorsed by the Muhammadiyah Central Board as Rector of Muhammadiyah University (UMY) in Yogyakarta in December 2012. Rector Bambang, who is professor in International Relations, is a Fulbright program alumnus who earned his Master’s from Ohio State University and conducted research at Arizona State University.
UMY currently has a student body of 12,000 and is one of the top 44 from 3,100 private universities in Indonesia. One of his targets is to increase the number of Doctorate degree holders from 66 (16%) to 160 (40%) of the total 270 UMY faculty members by 2016. UMY is host to the U.S. Embassy American Corner serving the vast college town of the Yogyakarta special province.
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