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Airlangga University

Universitas Airlangga
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Motto Excellence with Morality
Type Public
Established 1954
Rector Prof. Dr. H. Mohammad Nasih, S.E., M.T., Ak., CMA
Academic staff
2,207
Students 35,985
Undergraduates 33,642
Postgraduates 2,343
Location Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
7°16′18″S 112°45′29″E / 7.27167°S 112.75806°E / -7.27167; 112.75806Coordinates: 7°16′18″S 112°45′29″E / 7.27167°S 112.75806°E / -7.27167; 112.75806
Campus Campus A: Prof. Dr. Moestopo 47 St.
Campus B: Airlangga 4-6 St.
Campus C: Mulyorejo Blvd.
Campus D: Giri, Banyuwangi
Student newspaper UNAIR News
Colours Yellow and blue          
Mascot Garuda Mukti
Affiliations ASAIHL, AUAP,AUN, AUN-ACTS
Website www.unair.ac.id/en, http://international.unair.ac.id

Airlangga University (UNAIR or UA; Indonesian: Universitas Airlangga) is the second-oldest university in Indonesia and also a public university located in Surabaya, East Java. Despite being officially established by Indonesian Government Regulation in 1954, Universitas Airlangga was first founded in 1948 as a distant branch of the University of Indonesia, with roots dating back to 1913. It started with a medical school and school of dentistry. Now Universitas Airlangga hosts 15 faculties with more than 35,000 students (during the 2015-2016 academic year) and 1,570 faculty members. Universitas Airlangga has university hospitals for the faculties of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, as well as a tropical infection hospital for its Institute of Tropical Disease. The university is also equipped with biosafety level three facilities.

Consistently ranked highly in major world university rankings, Universitas Airlangga have long been considered as one of the "Big 5" university in Indonesia, along with University of Indonesia, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bogor Agricultural University, and Gadjah Mada University.

Universitas Airlangga has international partnerships worldwide, including with University of Bonn, Seoul National University, and University of Adelaide.

The QS Asian University Ranking 2014 have placed Universitas Airlangga as the best university in "Citations per paper" category. In 2010, Universitas Airlangga was ranked 466th worldwide according to the Top 500 QS World University Rankings 2010, as well as ranked 86th in the Top 200 QS Asian University Rankings 2011 (third in Indonesia after University of Indonesia and Gadjah Mada University). In the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2011, Universitas Airlangga was placed fourth in Indonesia and 22nd in the Southeast Asia region.


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