Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS)

Internal Quality Assurance System is one of many systems to address some problems in higher education institutions in Indonesia.

In general, quality assurance in higher education was defined as

1. An establishment of  processes and compliance with the standard quality of education consistent and continuous to meet the customer satisfaction.
2. Processes to assure the quality of the graduates meet the established competency  and the quality of the graduates can be maintained consistently and be improved continuously.

A qualified university is a university that is able to define and to realize its visions through the implementation of the missions (deductive logic) and is also able to fulfill/satisfy stakeholders/consumer needs (inductive logic) including public needs, world of work and professionalism. Therefore, a higher education should be able to planning, managing and controlling processes to achieve the quality standards.

To achieve all the goals, it is necessary to accomplish the following requirements:

1. Commitment
2. Internally driven
3. Responsibility and good supervision
4. Compliance to the planning
5. Evaluation
6. Continuous Improvement of quality

The goals of quality assurance are to maintain and to improve the quality of higher education continuously which are conducted internally to achieve vision and mission university and to fulfill stakeholder needs through the implementation of “university three missions” (Tri Darma Perguruan Tinggi). To accomplish those goals, an university should be controlled and audited  by BAN-PT or by other external accreditation bodies. Therefore, objectivity of the evaluation of maintaining and improving of academic quality continuously at the university can be achieved.