Muhammadiyah has a dynamic treasure of developing commentary studies. However, very few studies on interpretation in Muhammadiyah are carried out at Muhammadiyah Higher Education (MHE). Broadly speaking, the tradition of commentary studies in Muhammadiyah can be classified into two, namely the written tradition (literary) and the oral tradition (orality). From the written tradition, Muhammadiyah published commentary books, while the oral tradition came from the oral interpretation of K.H Ahmad

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... ahlan which was documented by his students. This paper aims to see the orientation of the study of interpretation of Muhammadiyah in MHE, and MHE whose study program is Al-Qur'an and Tafsir (IQT) is the Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS). This paper is based on library research using qualitative. The data were analyzed using content analysis sourced from the thesis of IQT UMS students. Furthermore, the research mapping of commentary studies of Muhammadiyah in IQT UMS used the accentuation theory by Abdul Mustaqim. The results of this study showed that the study of interpretation in MHE, especially UMS, was still oriented to the study of thematic interpretation with 3 tendencies; figure thematic, figure comparison thematic, and conceptual thematic. The study of the pattern of the living Qur'an was still low. Likewise, there are various studies of other Muhammadiyah commentary that have not been investigated.