Institutional development · Recruitment, enrolment and mobility · Indonesia
IPB University's third agriculture olympiad awards 11 golden tickets to its admission pathway
IPB University's Faculty of Agriculture closed its 2026 Indonesian Agricultural Olympiad on 17 October, giving 11 winners golden tickets to pursue study through its achievement-based admission pathway.
Why it matters: Admissions and faculty leaders elsewhere can note how IPB University ties a subject olympiad to its achievement-based admission pathway while presenting agriculture as including technology and AI.
IPB University said its Faculty of Agriculture held the 2026 Indonesian Agricultural Olympiad (OPI), which ended at the Dramaga Campus in Bogor on 17 October.
According to the university, 11 winners received golden tickets to pursue studies at IPB University through its achievement-based admission pathway.
Faculty dean Prof Suryo Wiyono said the olympiad, now in its third year, will continue because it encourages student achievement and introduces fields of agricultural science.
The dean said agriculture extends beyond cultivation to advanced technology, automation, artificial intelligence and plant quarantine, with careers beyond plantation work.
Editor’s view
Rachel Smith, Students and International Editor
The 11 winners and IPB University's Faculty of Agriculture are directly affected: the winners now hold golden tickets to pursue study through the achievement-based admission pathway. If the olympiad continues as the dean said it would, institutions running their own subject competitions may weigh whether to connect them to an admission route in a similar way.
