page_title: Medan
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Medan / Education
caption_attribution_description: Gedung Pascasarana Universitas Negeri Medan
context_page_description: Medan is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. A regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra, it is regarded as one of the four main central cities of Indonesia, alongside Jakarta, Surabaya, and Makassar. Medan has a population of over 2.2 million within its city limits, and over 3.4 million in its built-up urban area, making it the fourth largest urban area in Indonesia. The Medan metropolitan area—which includes neighbouring Binjai, Deli Serdang Regency, and a part of Karo Regency—is the largest metropolitan area outside of Java, with 4,220,439 residents at the 2010 Census. Medan is a multicultural metropolis and a busy trading city bordered by the Strait of Malacca. A gateway to the western part of Indonesia, Medan is supported by the Port of Belawan and Kualanamu International Airport, both of which are connected to the city centre via toll roads and railways.
  The city was founded by Guru Patimpus, a Karonese man who named a swampy land in confluence of Deli River and Babura river as Kampung Medan Putri. It later became a part of the Deli Sultanate which was established by Tuanku Gocah Pahlawan in 1632.
context_section_description: As the largest city outside of Java island, Medan provides more than 827 registered elementary schools, 337 middle Schools and 288 high schools, including state-owned, private, religious, and international schools. Some notable schools are:
  Chandra Kumala School
  Kalam Kudus School (KK)
  Kingston School
  Medan International School
  Methodist School
  Prime One School (POS)
  Singapore Intercultural School (SIS)
  St. Thomas School
  Sutomo School
  Telkom Sandhy Putra Vocational School
  Medan also has 72 registered universities, academies, polytechnics, and colleges such as:
  University of North Sumatra
  Medan State Polytechnic
  State University of Medan
  Prima University
  HKBP Nommensen University
  Dharmawangsa University
  Universitas Methodist Indonesia
  STBA-PIA (亚洲-国际友好学院)
  Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra
  IT&B Campus
  Medan Tourism Academy
  Technology Institute of Medan
  University of Pembangunan Panca Budi
  Pelita Harapan University and others.
  Medan was previously the site of the Medan Japanese International School or Medan Japanese School (メダン日本人学校, Indonesian: Sekolah Internasional Jepang, Medan), an overseas school for Japanese children. It was affiliated with the Japanese Consulate General in Medan, and occupied a 481.88-square-metre (5,186.9 sq ft) building on a 1,880-square-metre (20,200 sq ft) property. It originated as a supplementary school in the consulate's library that opened in April 1972 (Showa 49). A committee to establish a new day school was created in 1978 (Showa 54), and in January 1979 (Showa 55) the school remodeled an existing building for this purpose. The school opened in April 1979. It closed in March 1998.
caption: The State University of Medan, a postgraduate campus.
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