The Architect Professional Study Program at Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) is an advanced level education program that specializes architecture students in understanding, planning, and implementing architectural projects with high professional standards, ethics, and skills in accordance with industry demands. The program aims to prepare Undergraduate Program in Architecture graduates to become licensed architects who are competent and understand aspects of sustainability and conservation of natural resources in building and environmental design.
The vision of the Architect Professional Study Program is to become the best academic community nationally ranked in 2030 in the implementation of professional architectural education that is able to educate students to be able to work professionally in order to create a harmonious built environment and enlighten and enrich the repertoire of life for the wider community. Professional Architect graduates have very broad job prospects, they are in great demand in the construction industry, architectural consultants, and also have the potential to establish their own architectural business. Students who complete this professional program will be awarded the title of Architect (Ar) and are ready to contribute to the development and planning of the built environment with the competencies they have.
Vision & Mission
To become the best academic community nationally in 2030 in organizing professional architect education that can educate students to work professionally to create a harmonious built environment and enlighten and enrich the life of the general public.
- Organizing autonomy-based higher education, which is a forum for developing the character and professionalism of human resources based on empowerment which contains the spirit of democratization of education that recognizes plurality with an educational orientation that emphasizes aspects of finding alternative solutions to actual problems based on scientific, moral, and conscience studies.
- Producing graduates who become agents of change as a force of modernization in the life of the general public, who have scientific competence, relevance, and strong competitiveness, and who behave with ethical scholarship.
- Implementing, developing, and improving education, research culture, and community service programs to improve academic quality by developing excellent knowledge helpful in changing the lives of the general public for the better.
Goals & Targets
- Producing qualified graduates who can develop science, technology, humanities, and arts-based on religious morals and can compete at the national and international levels
- Producing innovative research that encourages the development of science, technology, humanities, and arts in the national and international scope
- Producing community service based on reasoning and research work that is useful in advancing the nation's general welfare and intellectual life and innovative community empowerment so that the community can solve problems independently and sustainably.
- Realizing adaptive, creative, and proactive independence from the demands of society and development challenges, both nationally and internationally.
- Continuously improving the quality of learning management to achieve excellence in national and international competition and cooperation
- Become a moral and intellectual force in building Indonesian civil society
- Developing the potential of students to become human beings who are faithful and devoted to God Almighty and have a noble character, healthy, knowledgeable, capable, creative, independent, skilled, competent, and cultured for the benefit of the nation.
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