SLEMAN - The registration of the Seleksi Bersama Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Negeri or SBMPTN 2018 officially closed on Friday (27/04/2018) at 22.00 WIB. As many as 29,475 applicants registered to UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta (UPNVY).

The data reported by UPT Information and Communication Technology (ICT) UPNVY, Management Prodi still dominated the top 1, 2 and 3 choice of SBMPTN participants with 3,282 registrants. Furthermore, the selection program with the most applicants of Communication Science were 2,794 applicants, 2,400 applicants of Mining Engineering and 2,154 applicants of Informatics Engineering.

"Last year on the same line we received 26,273 participants of 986 available seats. We provide 1214 seats for this year  SBMPTN, "said Vice Rector of UPNVY, M.Irhas Effendi, Saturday (28/04/2018).

Both UTBC and UTBK written exams on SBMPTN 2018 will be held on May 8, 2018, while skills exams will be on 9 and or 11 May 2018.

In addition to the of opening new admissions through  SBMPTN, UPNVY also opened the student registration through Seleksi Nasional Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Negeri (SNMPTN) which announced the results a few days ago and through the Independent Selection.

"The Independent Selection registration will be on May 9 to June 13, 2018," said Irhas.

In this year SBMPTN is held through two types of tests, namely Manually or Print Based Writing Exam (UTBC) and Computer Based Writing Exam (UTBK) which can be followed by graduate students of 2016, 2017 and 2018 from secondary education (SMA / MA / SMK ) and the equivalent and the graduates of Package C of  2016, 2017 and 2018.

UPNVY UTBC will be implemented by 3500 participants, and UTBK by 300 participants on May 8, 2018.

UPNVY has a capacity of 3,035 prospective undergraduate students and 80 prospective D3 students this year. A total of 911 seats are allocated through the SNMPTN line. The remaining 1,214 seats  are for SBMPTN and 911 seats are allocated for Independent Selection. (wwj / humas)