State University of Surabaya
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University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 of Surabaya
(Indonesian: Universitas Negeri Surabaya or UNESA) was formerly named IKIP Surabaya (English: Surabaya Institute of Teaching and Education Sciences) is one of the state universities that was specially designed for graduating teachers, qualified for preschool, elementary, junior high, and senior high. In 1999, IKIP Surabaya changed its name to State University of Surabaya and has two main goals: graduate education and non-education students. It has seven faculties, 45 undergraduate programs, 12 diploma programs, and 15 postgraduate and doctorate programs. It has approximately 24,986 students and 834 lecturers (244 undergraduates, 470 postgraduates, 76 doctoral, and 27 professors).

History

In 1950, UNESA was founded from B-I and B-II courses majoring in Chemical Sciences and Exact Sciences. It used classrooms and laboratories belonging to the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 Hogere burgerschool
Hogere burgerschool
The Hogere burgerschool or HBS was a secondary school type in the Netherlands, existing between 1863 and 1974. The school, with a five or sometimes six year program, was continued in 1968 as havo and vwo. The last hbs diplomas were given out in 1974.-External links:*...

 (HBS). That course was held to ensure the availability of junior and senior high school teachers. In 1957, B-I courses was grouped into two main groups: General B-I Courses and Special B-I Courses. The General B-I Courses included English and Germans language. The Special B-I Courses included Chemical Sciences, Exact Sciences, Economics, Technical, Sports, and Airplane Sciences; it course was held until 1960.

The B-I and B-II courses was integrated with Faculty of Education and Teacher Training (Indonesian: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan or FKIP) in 1960 to graduating advanced school teachers. In 1961, it was integrated with FKIP Universitas Airlangga Cabang Malang and named FKIP Universitas Airlangga Cabang Surabaya. January 3, 1963, FKIP and Institute of Teacher Training (founded in 1962) was integrated into IKIP Malang Cabang Surabaya.

December 19, 1964, IKIP Surabaya was officially established and had five faculties: Education, Social Teaching, Language Art Teaching, Exact Science Teaching, and Engineering Sciences Teaching. In 1977, the Faculty of Sports Science Teaching becomes the sixth. That year, five of six faculties changed their named become the Faculty of Languages and Art, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Sport Sciences.

According to Presidential Order dated August 4, 1999, IKIP Surabaya changes its name become Universitas Negeri Surabaya. In 2006, UNESA opens a new Faculty of Economics divided from its parent's faculty, Faculty of Social Sciences. UNESA has two main campuses in Ketintang and Lidah Wetan.

Faculties

UNESA has seven faculties offering 62 study programs ranging from undergraduate level to doctorate.
  • Faculty of Education
    Education
    Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

    • Department of Counseling Guidance
    • Department of Education
      Education
      Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

       Technology
      Technology
      Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

    • Department of Out of School Education
    • Department of Extraordinary Education
    • Department of Pre-school and Elementary
      Elementary
      Elementary may refer to:*Elementary or Primary education, the first years of formal, structured education that occur during childhood*Elementary school, a school providing elementary or primary education*Elementary , 2007...

    • Department of Psychology
      Psychology
      Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

    • Department of Early Childhood Teacher Training Education
    • Department of Education
      Education
      Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

       Management
      Management
      Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

  • Faculty of Languages and Arts http://fbs.unesa.ac.id/
    • Department of Indonesian Education
    • Department of English Education
    • Department of Germans Education
    • Department of Japanese Education
    • Department of Javanese Education
    • Department of Mandarin Education
    • Department of Drawing Art Education
    • Department of Dancing Art Education
    • Department of Indonesian literature
    • Department of English literature
    • Department of English Business
    • Department of Germans literature
  • Faculty of Mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     & Natural Science
    Natural science
    The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...

     http://fmipa.unesa.ac.id/
    • Department of Mathematics
      Mathematics
      Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

       Education
    • Department of Physics
      Physics
      Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

       Education
    • Department of Chemistry
      Chemistry
      Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

       Education
    • Department of Biology
      Biology
      Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

       Education
    • Department of Sciences Education
    • Department of Mathematics
      Mathematics
      Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

    • Department of Physics
      Physics
      Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

    • Department of Chemistry
      Chemistry
      Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

    • Department of Biology
      Biology
      Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
    Social sciences
    Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

     http://fis-unesa.net/
    • Department of Pancasila
      Pancasila
      The Five Precepts constitute the basic Buddhist code of ethics, undertaken by lay followers of the Buddha Gautama in the Theravada as well as in Mahayana traditions. The precepts in both traditions are essentially identical and are commitments to abstain from harming living beings, stealing,...

       and Citizenship Education
    • Department of Geography Education
    • Department of History
      History
      History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

       Education
    • Department of Sociology
      Sociology
      Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

    • Department of State Administration Science
    • Department of Law
      Law
      Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

       Science
  • Faculty of Engineering
    Engineering
    Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

     http://ft-unesa.org/
    • Department of Electrical Engineering Education
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering Education
    • Department of Building Engineering Education
    • Department of Family Welfare Education
    • Department of Make up Education
    • Department of Civil Engineering
  • Faculty of Sports Sciences http://fik.unesa.ac.id/
    • Department of Sport Science
    • Department of Health
      Health
      Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

       and Recreation Education
    • Department of Sport Coaching Education
  • Faculty of Economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

     http://fe.unesa.ac.id/
    • Department of Economics Education
    • Department of Managements
    • Department of Accounting

Achievements

Here are several UNESA's achievements:
  • Winner of 2009 Indonesia Intelligent Robotic Contest in Gadjah Mada University
    Gadjah Mada University
    The Gadjah Mada University is the largest and the oldest national university in Indonesia . founded on December 19, 1949; although the first lecture was given on 13 March 1946. The name was taken from the name of Majapahit's Prime Minister, Gajah Mada.UGM is located in Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa...

    . Represented Indonesia in international robotic contest held at Trinity College, USA.
  • Second runner-up at Pekan Ilmiah Mahasiswa Nasional 2009 in Brawijaya University
    Brawijaya University
    Brawijaya University , established in 1963 and located in Malang, is one of the state universities in Indonesia. UB is one of the leading universities in Indonesia with more than 30,000 students in degrees ranging from the diploma programs , Bachelor’s degree program, Master’s degree program,...

    , category entrepreneurship.
  • 2009 National Student Sports Festival in Aceh, 11 Gold medals, 9 Silver, 10 Bronze.
  • Home of 2008 Asia BMX Championship.
  • Winner of 2008 Indonesia Higher Education Sports Festival, Surabaya.
  • Runner up of 2008 President Cup Volley Ball Championship.
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