IPB receives 1,100 Postgraduate Students in 2018
Bogor Agricultural University Graduate School (IPB) held an inaugural public lecture for new students in the 2018-1919 Academic Year. The event was held at Graha Widya Wisuda, Campus of IPB Dramaga, Bogor (30/8) and attended by new students of the master and doctoral programs of IPB.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Anas Miftah Fauzi, M.Eng as the Dean of Graduate School in his speech explained that there are 1,100 people who have been verified as new students of IPB postgraduate this year. This number consists of 974 master students and 126 doctoral students. At the Business School itself contains 95 students of master programs and 15 doctoral students have also been accepted.
"We congratulate students who have been accepted at the Graduate School of IPB. I hope students can graduate on time, " said Anas Miftah.
The IPB Graduate School (SPs) is the first Postgraduate Program in Indonesia. The establishment of the IPB postgraduate in 1975 took place during led of Prof. AM Satari. Currently, SPS IPB has 120 study programs. Consists of 76 Masters and 44 S3 study programs.
Rector of IPB, Dr. Arif Satria in his speech said that the times were always dynamic and experienced a shift. He said that at this time the era came to the 4.0 technological revolution. The technological revolution will color human life. This will have a broad impact on various sectors. For this reason, the development of Human Resources (HR) becomes very important.
"The impact of the technological revolution on business, we will see unexpected new players. Who knows Jack Ma with Ali Baba, Achmad Zaky with Bukalapak, Nadiem Makarim with Go-Jek ten years ago. Now they are big players in the business world, "said Arif Satria.
The Rector of IPB said that if we do not want to read the signals of change, we will be left behind and crushed. An example is a large mobile phone company, Nokia. "At that time Nokia was a big company, but because it felt great, feeling that they did not have dangerous rivals and were too late to read the change signals they were finally crushed and collapsed," said Arif Satria.
Same with aspects of high-precision agriculture, the use of drone, robotica technology to artificial intelligence that will massively color our world of agriculture in the future. Therefore, creativity is the key to success.
"For that we must be vigilant and read opportunities and inevitably have to change and not to feel satisfied. If we don't want to change, we will be left behind. I am sure that Indonesia can move forward and become a strong country because its strength is creativity, "said Arif Satria.
The public lecture was continued with a presentation on the life of graduate students. Speakers from the IPB Graduate School explained the rights and obligations received by graduate students and continued with a question and answer session. (Jhn)
