This Month the Graduation of the Alumni of IPB Totaled 143,711

Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) again graduated its best graduates in the open session with a single event of the Graduation and Diploma Delivery of the Phase VII in the Academic Year 2016/2017, Wednesday (10/5), in Grha Widya Wisuda (GWW), the Campus of IPB Dramaga, Bogor. At this graduation stage, IPB submitted the diploma to 750 graduates, consisting of 31 graduates holding the Doctorate, 209 graduates holding the Master of Science, 40 graduates holding the Master of Management, 3 graduates holding the Professional Master, 9 graduates holding the Veterinarian, and 458 graduates holding the Sarjana / Scholar.

The Graduation was opened directly and led by the Rector of IPB, Prof.Dr. Herry Suhardiyanto. On behalf of the entire academic community of IPB, the Rector congratulated the graduates on the successful completion of the education. He said, the graduates of IPB  should be ready to face the challenge, one of the challenges that we were and would face was the issues of the agricultural competitiveness. The trading cooperation scheme, which was the regional like ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), ASEAN Economic Community, as well as the global ones, provided the challenge on how to improve the competitiveness of the agricultural sector. Therefore, IPB as one of the leading universities in Indonesia always committed high to generate the useful innovations for the nation and the country.

In the nine consecutive years i.e. from 2008 to 2016, IPB had always been the most prospective contributor to most innovations in Indonesia according to the assessment of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education together with the Business Innovation Center (BIC) Indonesia. The total innovation of IPB in that period was 359 innovations from  936 innovations in Indonesia, the most if it was compared with other universities and the research institutions.

Therefore, IPB had set the research agenda that included the food, the energy, the ecology, the poverty alleviation, and the biomedicine. With that research agenda, IPB could more easily direct the research theme, so that converging to generate the useful innovations and the policy recommendations in providing the solution for various national problems.

In March 2016, the international rating agency of QS announced that IPB was being one of 100 Best Universities in the world, with the version of QS World University Ranking by Subject i.e. Agriculture and Forestry. In 10 August 2016, IPB got the Intellectual Property Award 2016 from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education for the category of the Award of the Productive Intellectual Property Achievement Center and the Award of the Cooperation of Foreign Researchers.

“On this occasion, I would like to convey that in the annual roadmap of the Strategic Plan of IPB, in 2017 is the Year of the Agricultural Mainstreaming. In this year, we need to further optimize the basic capital which has become the excellence of IPB so far namely in the form of the innovation, the excellent educated human resources, the relevant scientific substance, and the academic excellence in the field of agriculture in a broad sense,” said the Rector. 

The Rector added that, IPB awarded the 3rd Ranking of Anugerah Keterbukaan Informasi Publik, the Category of University submitted by the Vice President of RI, and the 2nd Ranking of Anugerah Cinta Karya Bangsa, the Category of University submitted by the Minister of Industry of RI. “We are grateful that IPB has achieved many achievements, but we must also continue to prepare to achieve and answer the challenges in the future,” he added.

The Rector also suggested that the Alumni Association had the strategic position for IPB as the important partner in building the nation and country in general and building IPB in particular. The alumni of IPB could continue to improve and develop the existing cooperation for the advancement of the alma mater. Please note that up to the graduation at this stage, IPB had 143,711 alumni. (Awl)