Hundreds of prospective students withdraw from state universities in Central Java, prompting questions

A significant number of prospective students in Indonesia who secured spots in state universities have opted not to enroll, prompting concern and investigation. Reports emerged during a joint meeting between Commission X of the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek).

Sofyan Tan, a member of Commission X, questioned information regarding 60,000 prospective students from the National Achievement Selection (SNBP) pathway who did not re-register. He urged Kemendiktisaintek to conduct a thorough investigation into this trend, which appears to affect both SNBP and the National Test-Based Selection (SNBT) pathways.

Universities like Tidar University (Untidar) in Magelang and Jenderal Soedirman University (Unsoed) in Purwokerto have reported hundreds of withdrawals. At Untidar, 60 out of 936 accepted SNBP students and 347 out of 2,418 accepted SNBT students chose not to register. "Those who don't register are only 60 students. So, it's only 6.4 percent, which is very small," said Untidar's Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Cooperation, Prof. Suyitno, referring to the SNBP figures.

Suyitno noted that the reasons behind these decisions are unknown, as students can simply opt out of registration without providing an explanation. The vacant spots will be reallocated to other admission pathways. "So, for the test pathway, we will add the quota for the empty portion. Well, there are also those who don't register for SNBT. So, the empty seats from those who don't register will be shifted to the independent admission pathway," he explained.

At Unsoed, the Head of Academic Affairs, Eko Sumantooed, confirmed that 70 out of 3,176 SNBP-accepted students did not register. "Alhamdulillah, at Unsoed, the registration number for the SNBP pathway is quite good. As many as 97.7 percent of the accepted prospective students have completed the registration process," he stated.

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Alhamdulillah, kalau di Unsoed jumlah registrasi di jalur SNBP termasuk baik. Sebanyak 97,7 persen calon mahasiswa yang diterima sudah selesai melakukan registrasi ulang.