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Development in The Number

of Students and Alumni

SULAEMAN AND LELES SUDARMANTO

Increasing Number of Students

Universitas Terbuka (UT) is a distance higher education institution in
Indonesia, which was established and started enrollment in 1984. At the

beginning , it attracted many high-school graduates who could not be accepted in
regular state higher education institutions. The development of UT in term of the
number of students, during the first 22 years, can be described as follows.

1984 - 1985 period

In the first enrollment in 1984, UT could accept as many as 54,035
students. In 1985, the number of students increased as many as 46,910, so that

the total became 100,945 students. This was a huge number because in two
years UT had already have more than 100,000 students. In this period , the
enrollment was only done once a year and they had to take a course package

determined in each Study Program for each semester.

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