Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Establishment of the university
1.2 Present form
2 Education
2.1 NUS Overseas Colleges
3 University rankings
4 Entrepreneurship
5 Faculties and schools
5.1 Arts and Social Sciences
5.2 Business School
5.3 Computing
5.4 Dentistry
5.5 Design and Environment
5.6 Engineering
5.7 Law
5.8 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
5.9 Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
5.10 Science
5.11 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
5.12 NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
5.13 Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
6 Residential colleges
6.1 NUS University Town
6.2 Cinnamon College
6.3 Tembusu College
7 Teaching centres
7.1 NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
8 Research
8.1 Research institutes and centres
8.2 Major research facilities
9 Industry and external partnerships
10 Yale-NUS
11 Campus facilities and resources
11.1 IT and computing services
11.2 Library services
12 Student accommodation
12.1 Halls of residence
12.2 Student residences
13 List of principal officers
14 Alumni
15 See also
16 References
17 External links
History[edit]
Evolution of the University of Malaya
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In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to establish a medical school in Singapore. Tan, who was the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to raise 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the largest amount of $12,000 came from himself.[citation needed] On 3 July 1905, the medical school was founded, and was known as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School.
In 1912, the medical school received an endowment of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, started by Lim Boon Keng. Subsequently on 18 November 1913, the name of the school was changed to the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was again changed to the King Edward VII College of Medicine to reflect its academic status.
In 1928, Raffles College was established to promote arts and social sciences at tertiary level for Malayan students.
Establishment of the university[edit]
Two decades later, Raffles College was merged with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to form the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two institutions were merged to provide for the higher education needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
The growth of UM was very rapid during the first decade of its establishment and resulted in the setting up of two autonomous divisions in 1959, one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur.
In 1960, the governments of then Federation of Malaya and Singapore indicated their desire to change the status of the divisions into that of a national university. Legislation was passed in 1961 establishing the former Kuala Lumpur division as the University of Malaya while the Singapore division was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962.
Present form[edit]
The National University of Singapore was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University in 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 only main language. The original crest of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was incorporated into the new coat-of-arms of NUS.
NUS began its entrepreneurial education endeavours in the 1980s, with the setting up of the Centre for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a division of NUS Enterprise. NEC is currently headed by Professor Wong Poh Kam and its activities are organised into 4 areas, including a business incubator, experiential education, entrepreneurship development, and entrepreneurship research.
Today, the National University of Singapore has 16 faculties and schools across three campus locations in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and provides a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment.
National University of Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (2013)
Education[edit]
NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching (tutorials) and the American system (course credits). Students may transfer between courses within their first two semesters, enrol in cross-faculty modules or take up electives from different faculties (compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary initiatives study programmes include double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.
NUS has 16 faculties and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Currently, it has seven overseas colleges at major entrepreneurial hubs in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US).
NUS Overseas Colleges[edit]
The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme started in 2001. Participants of the programme spend 6–12 months overseas, taking internships and courses at partner Universities. There are 7 colleges, in the Silicon Valley (US), Philadelphia (US), Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), Stockholm (Sweden), India and Israel.
The local equivalent is the Innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) initiative, where students intern at innovative Singapore companies. This is a 7–8-month programme that cultivates an entrepreneurial mindset, and develops leadership and management skills.
NOC set up an entrepreneurial-themed residence, known as N-House. Located within the NUS Prince George's Park residence, this houses about 90 students, who are graduates of the NOC and iLEAD programmes. Entrepreneurial activities are also organised by the N-House residents, and these include entrepreneurial sharing sessions, business idea pitching and networking events.
University rankings[edit]
University rankings
Global
ARWU 101–150
Times 25
QS 22
Asia
ARWU
Times
QS (Global version)
QS (Regional version) 1
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NUS has been ranked among the best in both Singapore and Asia by QS rankings, which is based heavily on anonymous surveys on universities reputation.
The ARWU (2013) that measures universities academic achievements and research performance placed NUS in the range of 100–150 worldwide and the best in Singapore. Conversely, in the same academic year, the QS World University Rankings (2014/15) ranked NUS 22nd in the world and 1st in Asia, while the independent QS Asian University Rankings (2014) also considered it to be the first. Furthermore, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2012–13) placed NUS at 25th in the world and second in Asia, while its reputation rankings placed it at 22nd globally.
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