HUMAS FARMASI USU — The Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), once again achieved remarkable recognition at the USU Award 2025, an annual event organized to acknowledge outstanding performance among faculties and institutional units. During this prestigious occasion, the Faculty of Pharmacy USU earned several strategic awards, demonstrating its excellence in strengthening quality assurance systems, ensuring accurate higher education data reporting, and effectively managing institutional collaborations.
At the USU Award 2025, the Quality Assurance Unit of the Faculty of Pharmacy USU was named the Best Quality Assurance Unit, highlighting the faculty’s consistent commitment to maintaining the quality of higher education through systematic and sustainable internal standards. In addition, the faculty achieved Third Place in the Best Higher Education Database Reporting (PDDikti) Accuracy category at the Universitas Sumatera Utara level for 2025, underscoring its dedication to data accuracy, timeliness, and integrity as a foundation for educational planning and policy-making. Furthermore, the Faculty of Pharmacy USU also received the Second Best Award for Study Program with the Best Partnership Reporting, recognizing its ability to manage, document, and report collaborative activities in a structured, transparent, and accountable manner.
These awards were officially announced and presented during the USU Award 2025 ceremony, attended by university leaders, faculty representatives, and institutional stakeholders. The event served as both a performance evaluation platform and a source of motivation for faculties to continuously improve institutional governance in line with national higher education standards and global expectations.
The achievements of the Faculty of Pharmacy USU are the result of well-planned, measurable, and sustainable efforts. The faculty’s Quality Assurance Unit actively carries out functions such as quality planning, monitoring and evaluation, and assisting study programs in meeting both academic and non-academic standards. These efforts include strengthening quality documentation, evaluating lecturer and student performance, updating academic data, and ensuring compliance in PDDikti reporting and institutional partnership documentation.
Excellence in PDDikti reporting reflects the faculty’s strong commitment to maintaining the validity and reliability of academic data, covering student and lecturer information, curriculum, learning outcomes, and the performance of the university’s tridharma (education, research, and community service). Meanwhile, recognition in partnership reporting highlights that the faculty not only actively builds collaborations but also ensures that all partnerships are systematically documented and reported to support the continuous improvement of education, research, and community engagement.
These accomplishments demonstrate that strong institutional governance, a culture of quality, and accountable reporting are fundamental pillars in building a competitive and excellent faculty. The Faculty of Pharmacy USU remains committed to integrating quality assurance systems and good governance practices as part of its contribution toward achieving Universitas Sumatera Utara’s vision of becoming a world-class university.
Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- SDG 4 (Quality Education): Strengthening quality assurance systems and accurate academic reporting contributes to improving standardized, accountable, and sustainable higher education quality.
- SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions): Transparent, accountable, and integrity-driven institutional governance through PDDikti reporting and quality management supports strong and trustworthy higher education institutions.
- SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals): Optimizing the management and reporting of institutional partnerships reflects strengthened and sustainable strategic collaborations in supporting the tridharma of higher education.
The Faculty of Pharmacy USU is expected to sustain and further enhance these achievements as motivation to continue innovating, strengthening its quality culture, and contributing significantly to the advancement of higher education, research, and community service, while elevating the reputation of Universitas Sumatera Utara at both national and international levels.