UI accepts 212 'special' students

JAKARTA: The University of Indonesia announced on Saturday that it had accepted 212 undergraduate students through a special admissions test, representing 6 percent of its 3,553 undergraduate students this year.

"So it's not true that we are 'selling' seats since only 212 students were accepted from 1,021 candidates (who joined the special tests)," university rector Usman Chatib Warsa said after an inauguration ceremony at its campus in Depok.

It was reported earlier that students who passed the tests were required to pay an admission fee of between Rp 15 million (US$1,764) and Rp 75 million.

Besides the undergraduate students, the university also accepted 110 doctoral students, 2,609 graduate students, 2,614 students from its extension program and 2,720 diploma students. - Antara