Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta is a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The university established on December 29th 1992 under the supervision of AMIKOM Foundation. It began from an academy namely “Akademi Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer (AMIKOM)”or Informatics Management and Computer Academy with diploma program in Informatics Management and Informatics Engineering as the first major. On April 24th 2002, AMIKOM officially listed as “Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer (STIMIK)” or Institute of Information Management and Computer Science AMIKOM Yogyakarta due to the rapid development of technology and high demand of professionals in computer science. STIMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta was acknowledged by the Ministry of Education Republic of Indonesia decree No. 075/D/O/2002.
Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta is a new form of AMIKOM Yogyakarta College of Informatics and Computer Management by acknowledging Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia No. 099/KPT/I/2017 on January 20th 2017. The transformation conducted with aims to become one of world-leading entrepreneurship based creative economy university.
Nowadays, Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta has 13,712 students in 2 diploma programs, 13 undergraduate programs, and 2 postgraduate programs. These include Diploma Programs in Informatics Management and Informatics Engineering. There also 13 undergraduate subjects in three faculties including Faculty of Computer Science, Faculty of Economics and Social, and Faculty of Science and Technology. Meanwhile, on a postgraduate program, Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta consists of the Graduate Program in Informatics Engineering.
Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta keeps quality as a priority to ensure the highest standard of learning. This university received recognition from UNESCO in 2009 as a private entrepreneur model university. In addition, Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta obtains 80 international awards and more than 210 national awards.
In line with our vision in the creative economy sector, Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta develops a strategic partnership with reputable institutions such as Hollywood in film development and Silicon Valley in terms of information technology and communications. The university works internally toward our vision by creating the AMIKOM Creative Economy Park. Our creative economy park consists of research center, MSV Studio which produced a world-class animation movie entitled November 10th (Battle of Surabaya), and laboratories.
PROFILE OF UNIVERSITAS AMIKOM YOGYAKARTA : Profil_2019