Hasanuddin University (UNHAS) is located in Makassar, Indonesia. Makassar is the capital of the South Sulawesi Province. It is the gateway to Eastern Indonesia and the epicenter of West and East Indonesia and between Australia and Asia. UNHAS was established in 1956, and the university is one of the fully autonomous public universities in Indonesia. The university is also one of the most prominent universities in Indonesia's eastern part in terms of the number of students and academic staff, the number of undergraduate and postgraduate programs, facilities, and research and publication outputs.
UNHAS plays an important role as a centre of excellence for Indonesian maritime-based development in the humanities, sciences, technology, arts, and culture as a fully autonomous public university. Moreover, the university is located in the center of the coral triangle, making the university one of Indonesia's best places or even in the world to study coral reefs and other tropical marine ecosystems.
Campuses and Faculties
UNHAS has two green campuses: Tamalanrea campus and Gowa campus. Tamalanrea campus occupies 220-hectares and has 14 faculties, including Economic and Business, Pharmacy, Law, Cultural Studies, Marine Sciences and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Agriculture, Forestry, Public Health, Dentistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Social and Political Sciences, Nursing, and a graduate school. Gowa campus, in the Gow regency, occupies 11-hectares and is the new home for the Hasanuddin engineering faculty.
UNHAS has 15 faculties, one postgraduate school, 65 undergraduate study programs, and 63 postgraduate study programs which are taught primarily in Bahasa Indonesia. The university also offers English-taught programs for several undergraduate and postgraduate international programs with social science, economics and business, law, literature, health, engineering, natural science, agriculture, and marine science and fisheries.
World-Class Teaching and Research Facilities
UNHAS has several facilities to support world-class teaching and research activities:
- Center of Technology (COT) of UNHAS
- Teaching Hospital
- Teaching Forest
- Maiwa Breeding Center
- Marine Field Station
- Teaching Aquaculture Pond
- Excellent Paddy Hatcheries
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)' Center
- Center for Microfinance
- Center of Rice Seed Research
- Center for Attorney
In addition, the university has two support systems in place for students to use: SIKOLA-a Learning Management System of Hasanuddin University and NeoSIA- a Management information System of Hasanuddin University. The university also has the following research and community-service institutions of excellence:
- Center for Health Sciences
- Center for Energy and Electricity
- Center for Democracy, Cultural Conflict, and Humanities
- Center for Biotechnology
- Center for Population and Gender Studies
- Center for Heritage, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
- Center for Regional and Spatial Planning and Information
- Center for Natural Resources
- Center for Living Environments
- Center for Disaster Research
- Center for Students Community Services
- Center for Dissemination and Intellectual Property Rights
- Center for Ocean, Coastal, and Small Island Research and Development
- Center for Peace, Conflict, and Democratic
Internationalism
UNHAS has had 116 active international partnerships over the last five years with university and research institutes spread among the four continents (Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America). We strive to provide education of the best quality. We continuously establish cooperation through the exchange of student and academic staff, joint research, publications, international conferences, joint general lecture series, student internships, staff capacity building and international cultural programs.
As an effort towards impactful teaching and research development, UNHAS has also expanded its collaboration network by joining international communities such as AUN-QA, ASAHIL, ASEA-UNINET, and YCU consortium. The university will gain more opportunities to engage in global impacts in teaching, research, and community services through this effort. The university has several internationally accredited study programs: 25 study programs accredited by AUN-QA, 4 study programs accredited by ASIIN, 2 study programs accredited by ABEST21, and two study programs accredited by ABET.
The total number of international students is 1,427 or 5% of the total number of students of UNHAS. They come from 18 countries, including Malaysia, China, Timor Leste, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Japan, Cambodia, PNG, South Korea, Sudan, Jordan, Salomon, Bangladesh, Yemen, Australia, and Iraq.
