UGM Reveals Number of Prospective Students Who Withdrew After SNBP Acceptance

Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) has released data on the number of prospective new students who withdrew after being accepted through the 2026 Seleksi Nasional Berdasarkan Prestasi (SNBP), amid circulating claims that 60,000 candidates failed to re-register. UGM’s Vice Rector for Education and Teaching, Prof Wening Udasmoro, stated that the university received 143,595 regular applicants and 4,305 applicants for the International Undergraduate Programme (IUP) this year. A total of 10,411 regular students and 1,234 IUP students were accepted. For the SNBP route specifically, there were 29,456 applicants and 2,836 accepted students. Wening noted that only 0.6 per cent of accepted SNBP candidates, or 20 individuals, did not re-register, a figure lower than the previous year. For the SNBT (test-based) route, 64,473 applicants competed for 2,857 places, with 138 failing to re-register. Data for the independent selection route, which accepted 4,480 students from 44,972 applicants, is still being processed as registration is ongoing. Wening added that students are not required to state their reasons for withdrawing and that no sanctions are imposed on the schools of SNBP candidates who do not re-register. Unfilled SNBP seats are added to the SNBT quota, and any remaining SNBT seats are transferred to the independent selection route, in accordance with the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Regulation No. 3 of 2026. The clarification follows reports that 60,000 prospective students had not re-registered, prompting a member of the House of Representatives Commission X to call for an investigation into whether financial constraints or mismatched placements were to blame. The Chair of the SNPMB 2026 team clarified that the 60,000 figure actually represents the total number of non-registrants across all national selection pathways in 2025, not just the SNBP route, and that the re-registration rate for SNBP was 92 per cent.