UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

Method of Education Delivery

The delivery of education services is carried out by using credits (sks) as a measurement of evaluating students’ learning outcomes.

Credit is a way of organizing higher education programs to explain their academic weight.
The semester is a minimum period that describes the duration of the education program.

 The General Objective of the credits (sks) method is to enhance the extent to which higher education can be developed. It involves the presentation of education programs that are flexible and more varied, give greater opportunity to students when choosing programs, and focus on planning a definite professional path.

 The specific objectives are:

1. Allow the students who are clever and diligent to finish their studies in a minimum duration.
2. Allow the students to choose the subject according to their interest, talent, and capacity.
3. Give the possibility to the execution of the education system with plural input and output.
4. Facilitate the adaptation of the curriculum to the rapid development of knowledge and technology.
5. Enables the evaluation system of advance learning of the students to be conducted optimally.

Basic Characteristic of Credit is:

In the credit system, each subject has a weight, namely credits value. The credits value of subjects is various. It is determined by the effort to finish the tasks presented in the lecture program, job training, practical work, and other tasks. In the credit system, each subject is finished in one semester that lasts for 13 weeks (excluding mid-exam and final exams). In addition to quantitative valuation, the credit system acknowledges that the finishing of the study unit could be valued quantitatively by giving a weight to the relevant unit.

At BINUS UNIVERSITY, one credit equals to 36-48 hours/semester. In the frame of a good result achievement, a student is expected to provide 50 minutes face to face for each credit per week, and at least one or two hours of self-learning. The recently mentioned time is provided to recite and explore the material that has been accepted in the course, for example: reading the textbook suggested, doing the task, etc.

One credit is made up of:

1. An academic hour of scheduled face-to-face learning in the classroom with education staff.
2. An academic hour of structured academic activity which is not scheduled but has been planned by education staff (lecturers), e.g.: review session or seminar.
3. An academic hour of independent academic activity like reading, summarizing, working on papers etc.

The delivery of education at BINUS UNIVERSITY is achieved through teaching materials, discussion, speeches, case studies, job training, practical work, and other student-centered teaching & learning strategies.