Pengaruh Sistem Uang Kuliah Tunggal terhadap Partisipasi Berorganisasi Mahasiswa (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Sumatera Utara)

Abstract

Program Tuition Single at the University of North Sumatra recently enacted in the new school year in 2013, According to Circular Director General of Higher Education No. 97 / E / KU / 2013 dated February 5, 2013, instructed all universities in Indonesia to do two things namely remove the base currency and establishing and implementing Single Tuition rates for new students started the academic year 2013/2014. Single Tuition system is a system of setting tuition that will directly incorporate all the costs that will be incurred for college students, so that students are not the same tuition of a student by another student. Application of UKT in USU raised concerns against the desire of students to join the organization, which the UKT system set period of time / end time for the lecture only eight semesters, while students who are active in organizations feared would require a period of more than eight semesters to complete the course. With the enactment feared UKT system may decrease the participation of the student organization for students completing the course will focus more on time. This study aims to determine how the influence of a single system of tuition fees for students to organize participation in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of North Sumatra. This type of research used in this study is a quantitative survey with 2,230 student population (All Students Force in 2013 and 2014) and Sample FISIP USU totaled 95 students with the technique used was stratified random sampling. The result showed that out of 95 (100%) of the respondents surveyed, 44 (46%) of respondents who berpartisispasi in the activities of campus organizations. And by 77% UKT system affect students participate in campus organizations and 23% did not affect the students to participate in campus organizations. The greater the load UKT the more it will affect student participation in campus organizations following the activities.