As the first doctoral program in the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Faculty of Social and Political Sciences established in 2012, the Doctoral Program in Development Studies provides multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary education in the social science field.
Accommodated by qualified educational facilities and infrastructure, our study program is also supported by the best lecturers who are experts, capable in development studies andghly committed to teaching. The USU Doctoral Program in Development Studies focuses on studying, researching, and solving social development problems in a comprehensive education-oriented manner that emphasizes finding alternatives to solving actual problems. Our study program is responsible for preparing qualified, capable, and professional alums, who, in their profession, have comprehensive knowledge and practical abilities to study and develop development programs and can establish integrated policies.
History
Vision & Mission
To become a study program with academic excellence and compete in the development of science and applied research in the field of development studies at a global level in 2021.
- Organize multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary doctoral-level education and teaching programs in the field of social sciences that juxtapose and elaborate local knowledge of North Sumatra to produce graduates who can study, research, and solve social development problems comprehensively with an educational orientation that emphasizes aspects of finding alternative solutions to actual issues based on scientific studies, morals, and conscience.
- Carry out and develop the quality of academic research and multidisciplinary scientific development to produce new theories, thoughts, and concepts.
- Carry out community service in the field of development studies that is useful for the welfare and progress of society.
- Produce graduates who become agents of change as a force of modernization in the life of the wider community, who have scientific competence, relevance, intense competitiveness, and who behave with ethical scholarship.
Goals & Targets
- Producing alumni who can master development theories that can be applied in examining development problems in the local, national, regional, and international scope.
- Producing professional alums in analyzing the development process and formulating appropriate policies and strategies in comprehensive development.
- Prepare experts who can dynamize a pluralistic society with complex problems.
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