Universitas YARSI ( en, YARSI University) is a private

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located in

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History

Universitas YARSI was established by the Islamic Hospital Foundation of Indonesia ( id, Yayasan Rumah Sakit Islam Indonesia or YARSI) on 15 April 1967. Its status changed to YARSI Medical School of Jakarta in 1969. Once YARSI was established as a medical school, the founders created a new faculty, from 1988 to 1999 three faculties were established, Faculty of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

, Faculty of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

, Faculty of Industry

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

(now the Faculty of

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

). At the same time the YARSI Medical School of Jakarta was changed to the Faculty of

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

and all four faculties became Universitas YARSI. In 2007 YARSI added the Faculty of

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

. In 2012 YARSI added the School of Dentistry.

Faculties

YARSI has five faculties and nine departments/schools. All have been accredited BAN-PT except from the Department of Library and Information Science (D3) and Psychology Health Sciences which are still in the process of accreditation. * Faculty of Medicine ** School of Medicine ** School of Dentistry The Dentistry Studies Program has been operating since November 2012, with the number of students of the first batch of 42 persons. The Dentistry Studies Program is part of the Faculty of Medicine. The results of the accreditation of the BAN-PT, Faculty of Medicine, University YARSI rated "A". The staff of the Dentistry Studies program has 16 lecturers with the qualifications of the Professor of Periodonsia, three PhD (two Community Dentistry and Oral Biology / orthodontist), eight doctors Dental Specialists (two Oral Medicine Dental Specialist, two Conservative Dental Specialist, two Prosthodontist, one Orthodontist, one Oral Surgeon) and four Senior Dentists with the educational qualification of Sustainable Dentistry. The Dentistry Studies program is equipped with twelve tutorial rooms, dental lab, lecture hall, auditorium, free wifi, digital library, journal subscriptions free online from EBSCOhost, a collection of books for dentistry, and others to support dental education. * Faculty of Economics ** Department of Management (Conventional and Islamic) ** Department of Accounting (Conventional and Islamic) * Faculty of Law ** Department of Law * Faculty of Information Technology ** Department of Informatics Technic ** Department of Library and Information Science ** Department of Library and Information Science (D3) * Faculty of Psychology ** Department of Health Psychology

Postgraduate Programme

*S2 for Economics *S2 for Law

External links

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Universitas YARSI Official website
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