Padjadjaran University

Universitas Padjadjaran (Padjadjaran University or UNPAD) is an institution of higher learning located in Bandung, which is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia.

History

Through the initiative of wealthy citizens of West Java, the Universitas Padjadjaran was established on September 11, 1957, and ratified through Government Regulation No. 37 thirteen days later.

When established, the University had only four departments. Now it has developed into several departments comprising of fifteen undergraduate programs, a number of specialist programs, nine doctorate programs, twenty Master's Degree programs, nine extension programs, one four-year diploma program (D4), and seven three-year diploma programs (D3). Initially established in Bandung, currently almost all of undergraduate departments have been relocated to Jatinangor, a town near Sumedang. Postgraduate departments still have their teaching facilities in Bandung.

For a time, Semaun was on the economics faculty.

Faculties

* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Economics
* Faculty of Medicine
* Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
* Faculty of Agriculture
* Faculty of Dentistry
* Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
* Faculty of Literature
* Faculty of Psychology
* Faculty of Animal Husbandry
* Faculty of Communication Sciences
* Faculty of Fisheries
* Faculty of Agriculture Industrial Technology
* Faculty of Nursing Science
* Faculty of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Geological engineering
* Post Graduate Program