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Figure 1
Universitas Terbuka’s Regional Offices

As shown by Figure 2, there are four main the Archive). Most importantly, the backbone
bodies in UT’s structure: (1) the Academic of UT’s operations in the regions are the 39
Senate, (2) Rector, (3) Internal Supervisory Regional Offices (RO) that spread throughout
Unit, and (4) Board of Trustee. As a BLU, the country.
UT also has an External Supervisory Board
which oversees UT’s program and financial Academic and Administrative Affairs
accountability. UT has four faculties, namely Admission and Registration. Admission and
the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Law, first registration can be done either online
Social and Political Sciences, the Faculty of or in person in the RO. Every registered
Education and Teacher Training, and the student will automatically receive an official
Faculty of Science and Technology. UT also email address (ecampus.ut.ac.id), username
has two institutions, namely the Institute and password. Students are expected to use
for Educational Quality Development and the official university email address for their
Assurance and the Institute for Research communication regarding their learning
and Community Services. Administrative at UT. Course registration can be done
supports are performed by two Bureaus throughout the year and students can access
(namely the Bureau of Finance, General all their academic records at https://sia.
Administration, and Cooperation, as well as ut.ac.id/
the Bureau of Academic, Student Affairs, and
Planning) and four technical units (namely
the units of Information and Communication
Technology, information services/library,
Human Resource Professional Development,

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