BINUSIAN Cares – BINUSIAN Undergraduates

19 Jun 2020

Reduction of Tuition and Graduation Fees

No.: 0391 / REK-SE / IV / 2020

The current COVID-19 situation has become a global pandemic and has a wide-ranging impact on all fields, including the world of education, which has been severely affected. This pandemic has also changed the way we interact socially and forced us to do most activities from home.

BINUS UNIVERSITY is aware of this and is making proactive efforts to protect all BINUSIANs to remain productive in conducting lecture activities. Since March 18^th, 2020, we have implemented academic and non-academic lectures, activities and services online. We are optimizing technological resources to support these activities to be carried out smoothly and comfortably. Supporting activities and student development also continue to run online, in the form of training, webinars, talk shows, competitions and Student Organization activities to support student self-development. Other support in the form of mentoring, tutoring and counseling also continue. These various online services can be accessed through student microsites at https://student.binus.ac.id/.

While the students are studing from home, we are carrying out a thorough cleaning and sterilization of buildings, facilities, equipment, to documents. This is to ensure readiness and comfort when the pandemic ends, and lecture activities are normal again.

In addition to protecting health and ensuring online lecture activities can work well, we are still working to contribute to the community. Through BINUSIAN Care, during this pandemic period BINUS did not reduce human resources, including outsourced employees, such as janitors and security officers.

Contributions to the community were also made through BINUSIAN Care Standby COVID-19 with a fundraising activity from BINUS employees and lecturers, aimed at supporting medical staff and volunteers who are treating COVID-19 patients. We also greatly appreciate the fundraising activities of the collaboration carried out by the 66 BINUS UNIVERSITY Student Activity Units, which formed the BINUSIAN ACTION Movement (GEBRAK) also helping those who are preventing COVID-19.

During the period of social restrictions, community empowerment activities carried out by lecturers and students under the coordination of Teach for Indonesia (TFI) and Community Development by Academics also continued. Activities that have been carried out include online training for MSMEs, online tutoring, Social Campaign and One Day One Kindness Program in various regions in Indonesia.

To be able to contribute to supporting government programs to answer the challenges of creating Advanced Indonesian Human Resources, BINUS has also launched GreatNusa, an online-based learning platform by providing access to more than 1,000 content for free for the public to be able to learn anytime and anywhere throughout Indonesia. In addition, BINUS Creates is also a partner of the Workers’ Card program by being a much-needed training provider by the community of Workers’ Cardholders.

We are increasingly aware, in the era of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education is becoming very important to be able to continue to be enjoyed by the community. Therefore, as a form of care and support for BINUSIANs, BINUS UNIVERSITY decided that current diploma and undergraduate level students will receive the following benefits:

For students who register for Lecture in Odd Semester 2020/2021, a scholarship in the form of Odd Semester 2020/2021 is given at 20% of the bill.
For students who are declared eligible for graduation in 2020, the Graduation Fee exemption is given. We will inform you about the schedule for graduation.
For the final semester students who have finished their studies in the Even Semester 2019/2020, a policy of extending the study period of 1 (one) semester to the Odd Semester 2020/2021 is possible. The fees are still billed with provisions along with the SKS in accordance with the courses.
Fees per Short Semester 2019/2020 are adjusted to the Fee per Regular Semester SKS.
This decision applies to all BINUS campuses.

We continue to ask BINUSIANs to continue learning from home, and not to carry out activities outside the home and to comply with the implementation of PSBB (Large-Scale Social Restrictions Policy) in their respective regions. Let’s participate in running our care and responsibilities by staying productive at home to protect ourselves, family and the environment from COVID-19.

This circular is valid until further notice. All official information will be conveyed through BINUSMAYA and official BINUS UNIVERSITY channels.