At the end of 2016 to coincide with year-end holidays and semester breaks, a number of School Managers of high school from all over Indonesia take advantage of vacation time by conducting study visits to major campuses in Indonesia.
As one of the many cities that have uniqueness, Malang city makes one of the main choice to visit. One of the most visited campus is the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Brawijaya Malang (FKUB). Due to many requests and interests of several high school managers to visit FKUB, FKUB can receive visits from several different high schools in one day.
Based on the data collected by the Sub-division of student affair of FKUB, there are more than 10 visits scheduled at the end of 2016. The agenda of visits from SMA and SMK at FKUB in December 2016 are: 1. SMA Medan Sumatera Utara; 2. Class XI and class XII SMA N 2 Krakatau Steel Cilegon, Banten; 3. MAN Pasuruan and MAN 2 Serang City, Banten (December 16, 2016); 4. SMA N 3 Pamekasan, Madura (December 19, 2016); 5. SMA SSC Jember (December 20, 2016); 6. SMA N 17 Kabupaten Tangerang, Banten (December 21, 2016); 7. SMA N I Cilegon, Banten (December 22, 2016); 8. MAN Insan Cendekia Kabupaten Muaro – Jambi (December 23, 2016); 9. SMA LBB SSC Gresik (December 27, 2016).
Not only the Faculty of Medicine is their goal to visit, but they also visit other faculties in UB such as Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) and Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), especially for students who are interested in social sciences . In addition to UB campus, they also visit other major campuses in Malang such as State University of Malang (UM) and University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). In addition to visiting campus, the group also visited several popular tourist sites in Kota Batu and Malang Regency, including Mount Bromo.
With this visit, school managers hope that their students will gain an understanding of the world of higher education and certainly their students can be accepted to continue their studies in FKUB.