This year PGRI Yogyakarta University was again trusted by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti) to be one of the private universities receiving PP-PTS grants or private university development programs. This grant program is given to approximately 53 private universities throughout Indonesia. Yogyakarta PGRI University is the only university receiving this grant from Yogyakarta.
After going through a strict stages of selection finally on 18-19 May 2019 then Yogyakarta PGRI University was invited by the Ministry of Research and Technology to present the proposal for submitting the grant. The presentation took place at the Ciputra Hotel in Jakarta for two days. The Yogyakarta PGRI University presenter team (UPY) led by the Chairman of the Yogyakarta Yogyakarta PGRI University Pembina Foundation Armansyah Prasakti performed impressively and was able to convince the reviewer team from the Ministry of Research and Technology, for his efforts UPY was trusted to manage grants in the form of laboratory equipment with a total value of Rp. 1.2 billion.
The equipment grant is planned to be allocated to the study program that has submitted, namely the Agrotechnology Study Program in the form of the need for agricultural laboratories, English Language Education Study Program in the form of digital language laboratory equipment and informatics engineering study programs in the form .
It is hoped that with this grant program private universities can increase the competitiveness of the nation through improving the quality of higher education. In accordance with UPY’s spirit to grow exponentially in order to become a leading university both on a national and international scale.