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National University of Singapore, with a history dating back to 1905, is the oldest university in Singapore. This is a list of universities in Singapore. The oldest university in Singapore is the National University of Singapore, which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public university in Singapore.Founded in 1981, it is also the second-oldest autonomous university in the country. NTU is frequently ranked within the world's top 30 universities according to most major international rankings, and is widely-considered to be one of the two most prestigious universities in Singapore, the other being the National ...
James Cook University Singapore is a branch campus [7] of James Cook University, a public research university based in Australia. Established in 2003, it is currently the only overseas institution with university status in Singapore. [8] [9] [10] While the university offers a comprehensive range of courses, it specialises in ecology, marine and ...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University on 6 August 1980. This was done in part due to the government's desire to pool the two institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity and promote English as Singapore's main language of education.
The Singapore Management University ( SMU) is a public university in Singapore. Founded in 2000, SMU is the third oldest autonomous university in the country, modelling its education after the Wharton School. [4] The university is triple accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. In 2024, SMU was ranked 44th in the world for Business and Management ...
The International Design Centre (IDC) is based both in Singapore at SUTD, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at MIT, with academic and industrial partners from around the world. The IDC has more than a hundred projects that involve approximately 270 faculty, researchers and students. IDC is part of a collaboration agreement between SUTD and MIT.
In January 2017, SUSS School of Law received its first 60 law students under its four-year LLB and JD programmes. Similar to other Singapore autonomous universities, both the LLB and JD programmes are recognised degrees under the Singapore Legal Profession Act and qualified persons with a minimum GPA of 3.5 are eligible to sit for the Bar Examination.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it is the first Liberal Arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%, it is among the most selective institutions in the world.