Monash University is set to open a postgraduate campus in Java late 2021, making it the first foreign branch campus in Indonesia.

Fully-owned by Monash, the university will focus on postgraduate degrees, short executive programmes and micro-credentials. The last two should be introduced later this year, with the first class slated to be a short executive programme. The first official master’s intake will launch in the final quarter of next year.

All successful students will be awarded Monash-branded credentials.

Indonesian education and culture minister Nadiem Makarim called this “the first of many partnerships to come”. He said: “This will help strengthen our education system and deepen the social, economic and technological links between Australia and Indonesia.”