Ekasakti University is a private university in Padang City, Indonesia. Achieving university status in 1984, Ekasakti began life as Padang Accounting Academy of Indonesia in 1973.
Ekasakti University provides 22 programs across 7 faculties as well as a Magister Program:
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
- Faculty of Letters
- Faculty of Teacher and Training Education
- Magister Program
Ekasakti’s competitiveness lies in its quality assurance. 20 programs are nationally accredited, with the others soon to follow. New undergraduate, master’s, and PhD programs are on the way, further bolstering Ekasakti’s engineering, agriculture, management, and law faculties.
Academic, industrial, and governmental collaborations provide Ekasakti students with a range of internship options. Like any forward thinking university, Ekasakti are embracing an internationalised outlook. Student exchange partnerships extend to universities in Malaysia, Thailand, and Brunei. The institution’s recent Global Education conference had more than 500 participants, over 100 of whom were from beyond ASEAN.
Following Indonesia’s state philosophy, Pancasila, the Ekasakti byword is ‘unity through diversity’. A fierce belief in ethics has led to work with the local government fighting corruption, and ensuring fair distribution of finance.
“I am extremely proud of the students this university has produced. Our students have become successful entrepreneurs who have grown the economy, with the skills to work anywhere in the world. I’m so proud that we have graduates whose achievements even exceed my own.”
-Prof. Dr. H. Andi Mustari Pide, SH, Founder and Rector of Ekasakti University
