Universities in Indonesia 2026: Top Universities, Rankings, Admissions, Fees & Scholarships
Universities in Indonesia 2026 | Rankings, Fees & Admissions
Indonesia has one of the largest and most diverse higher-education systems in Southeast Asia, with thousands of universities, institutes, polytechnics, academies and specialist higher-education institutions spread across the world’s largest archipelagic country.
For students searching for the best universities in Indonesia in 2026, the country’s higher-education landscape extends far beyond Jakarta.
Major university centres include:
Jakarta and Depok
Yogyakarta
Bandung
Surabaya
Bogor
Malang
Semarang
Makassar
Medan
and many other cities across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali and the wider Indonesian archipelago.
Indonesia’s official PDDikti higher-education database currently records approximately 4,416 higher-education institutions, 33,741 study programs, 303,067 lecturers and nearly 10 million students.
The government’s 2025 higher-education statistics, officially released in 2026, are based primarily [...]
