UGM supports student mothers by ensuring the campus remains child-friendly and accessible, allowing children to accompany their parents in campus spaces. Essential amenities can be found across campus, such lactation rooms, stroller-friendly ramps, and toilets equipped with baby-changing counters.
UGM also provides dedicated free and paid childcare centers. As of 2024, UGM operates four official childcare and early childhood education facilities, each designed to support students, staff, lecturers, and working parents in balancing academic and caregiving responsibilities.
One of the longest-running centres is the Tunggadewi Childcare Center, managed by the Dharma Wanita Persatuan UGM. Since its establishment in 1986, the centre has served thousands of families through safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate care for infants and toddlers. With trained caregivers, structured play-based learning, health monitoring, creative activities, dedicated classrooms, playgrounds, lactation rooms, and on-site health services, Tunggadewi remains a trusted facility open to both the UGM community and the public.
UGM also provides early childhood education through Taman Kanak-Kanak (TK) Masjid Kampus UGM, founded on 1 February 2002 under the UGM Foundation. Located within the UGM Mosque complex at Jl. Notonagoro No. 1, this kindergarten was created to support the children of postgraduate students, lecturers, and staff, while remaining accessible to the public. It offers Kindergarten A (ages 4–5) and Kindergarten B (ages 5–6) programs, complemented by extracurricular activities such as dance, music, Iqra’, and swimming.
Responding to the growing needs of its academic community, the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) established the Family Wellness Center in 2022. Operating with a co-parenting model, the centre provides daycare services for children aged 3 months to 5 years and offers half-day care, occasional drop-off programs, and regular health screenings in collaboration with the Gadjah Mada Medical Center (GMC). Designed for UGM students, faculty, and staff, this facility has become a vital support system for parents within the social sciences cluster.
In 2024, UGM further expanded its childcare support network with the opening of the Faculty of Law Kids Corner, a dedicated space that includes daycare services for students, lecturers, and staff across the Social Sciences Cluster. This new facility ensures that academic activities can continue smoothly while families receive reliable, campus-based support.
To complement these services, UGM also aligns office hours with local school schedules: Monday to Friday from 8.00 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an afternoon break from 12.00 p.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Together, these four facilities demonstrate UGM’s evolving ecosystem of care—one that recognizes the realities faced by modern students and staff, and actively supports their ability to learn, work, and thrive without having to choose between academic progress and family well-being.
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