Universitas Brawijaya (UB) was established by the President of the Republic of Indonesia on 11 July 1961. The name Brawijaya was taken from the title of Kings of Majapahit, a large kingdom in Indonesia from the 12th to 15th centuries. Then, UB changed its status to become a state university on January 5, 1963, following a Presidential Decree issued at the beginning of the same year. Currently UB is one of the leading universities in Indonesia with more than 60,000 students, in various vocational, undergraduate, masters, doctoral, professional and medical specialist programs.

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