History UMM
University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM) was founded in 1964, on the initiative of leaders and leadership of Muhammadiyah Malang area. At its inception the University of Muhammadiyah Malang is a branch of the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta, established by the Foundation of Higher Education of Muhammadiyah Jakarta by the Notary R. No. Sihojo Wongsowidjojo in Jakarta. Pliers 71-gal June 19, 1963.
At that time, the University of Muhammadiyah Malang has three (3) faculty, namely (1) Faculty of Economics, (2) Faculty of Law, and (3) Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (Guidance and Counseling) Religious Education Department. The three faculty received a Listed status from the Department of Education and Culture, Directorate General of Higher Education in 1966 by Decree No. 68/B-Swt/p/1966 dated December 30, 1966.
On July 1, 1968 UMM officially became an independent university (apart from Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta), whose activities were in the hands of Muhammadiyah Malang Foundation for Higher Education, by the Notary R. Sudiono, no. 2, dated July 1, 1968. In the next development certificate is then updated by the Notary G. No. Kamarudzaman. 7 Date June 6, 1975, and updated again by the Notary Kumalasari, SH No. 026 dated 24 November 1988 and registered in Malang District Court No.. 88/PP/YYS / XI / 1988 dated 28 November 1988.
In 1968, the University of Muhammadiyah Malang add new faculty, the Faculty of Social Welfare which is fi’lial of the Faculty of Social Welfare, University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta. Thus, at that UMM has four faculties. In addition, the Guidance and Counseling Department of Religious Education of the Faculty of Religious enroll as within the auspices of the Ministry of Religious Affairs with the name of the Faculty of Tarbiyah.
In 1970 the Faculty of Tarbiyah gained equal status with the State Islamic University (IAIN), by the Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs No. 50 of 1970. In this year also the Faculty of Social Welfare changed its name to the Faculty of Social Sciences with the Department of Social Welfare. Then in 1975 the Faculty’s official stand-alone (separate from the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta) by Decree No. 022 Registered A/1/1975 dated 16 April 1975.
Faculty were then added to the Faculty of Engineering, namely in 1977. In 1980 also opened the Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Animal Husbandry followed. Between 1983 to 1993, added new majors and enhanced status suudah majors are there. The latter, in 1993 the University of Muhammadiyah Malang opening Graduate Program Master in Management and a Masters in Rural Sociology.
Until the academic year 1994/1995, the University of Muhammadiyah Malang has nine faculties and 25 departments / The stratum level courses, two courses strata-S2, and one college / strata-D3 Nursing.
In the span of thirty years of traveling UMM (1964 – 1994), the most significant developments started in 1983′s. From that moment onwards UMM recorded impressive growth, either in the Subject field of improvement status, the administrative reform, the addition of facilities and campus facilities, as well as the addition and improvement of quality of managers (administrative and academic).
In the area of physical infrastructure and academic facilities, is now available three campuses: Campus I, Road No. Bandung. 1, Campus II at Jalan Dam No. Sutami. 188a, and Campus III (Integrated Campus) at Highway Tlogo Mas. In the area of increasing the quantity and quality of academic personnel, has been carried out (1) recruitment of young teachers from different universities in the island of Java, (2) improving the quality of the faculty by sending them for further study (S2 and S3) in as well as abroad.
Thanks to the struggle that knows no stopping it, so now UMM been transformed in the direction of college alternative. This has been admitted by Kopertis Region VII Coordinator, who in his official speech at the graduation of University of Muhammadiyah Malang dated July 11, 1992, stated that UMM relatively large colleges and universities prospected into the future.
With the condition continues to increase, now the University of Muhammadiyah Malang proudly but humbly ready to face the future, to participate in the shared task “the intellectual life of the nation” and “building a complete Indonesian man” in the heading to the Indonesian nation with dignity and aligned with the nation- other nations in the world.