NTU was inaugurated in 1991, when its predecessor institution, the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) merged with the National Institute of Education (NIE). NTU has since grown to become a full-fledged, comprehensive and research-intensive university, with over 32,500 undergraduate and postgraduate[ students in the various colleges of engineering, business, science, humanities, arts and social sciences, and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine - set up jointly with Imperial College London.
In recent years, various college and university rankings have placed NTU amongst the top universities in Asia and beyond. In the 2014 QS World University Rankings, NTU is ranked 39th globally, and is also placed 1st in the world among young universities according to the 2014 QS Top 50 Under 50 NTU is also ranked No.4 in Asia according to the 2015 QS Asian University Rankings. NTU's College of Engineering is also ranked 9th in the world according to the latest 2014 QS World University Rankings by Faculty. NTU's business school, Nanyang Business School, is placed 66th worldwide (4th in Asia, 1st in Singapore) by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2014.
The university's main campus is a 200-ha residential, garden campus located in the south-western part of Singapore at Jurong West, and is the largest university campus in Singapore. It is situated in close proximity to the Boon Lay bus interchange and the Boon Lay Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station. NTU also has two other campuses at Novena and one-north.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Nanyang Technological Institute (1981-1991)
1.2 Present form: Nanyang Technological University (1991-present)
2 Campuses
2.1 Yunnan Garden Campus
2.2 NTU@one-north
2.3 Novena Campus
3 Colleges, Schools and Institutes
3.1 Nanyang Business School
3.2 College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
3.3 College of Engineering
3.4 College of Science
3.5 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
3.6 Interdisciplinary Graduate School
3.7 Autonomous Institutes
4 Living Spaces
4.1 Undergraduate Halls
4.2 Graduate Halls
4.3 Faculty Housing
5 Academics
5.1 Undergraduate Education
5.2 Post-graduate Education
5.3 Clubs & Communities
6 University Rankings
7 Internet learning on campus
8 Degrees awarded by NTU
9 Notable Alumni
9.1 Politics
9.1.1 People's Action Party
9.1.1.1 Former Elected PAP Members
9.1.2 Workers Party of Singapore
9.1.3 Singapore Democratic Party
9.1.4 National Solidarity Party
9.1.5 International Politics
9.2 Public Service & Civil Society
9.3 Business and Technology
9.4 Academia and Research
9.5 Arts and Humanities
9.6 Media and Entertainment
9.7 Sports
10 Notable Faculty
10.1 Medicine, Science and Engineering
10.2 Humanities and Social Sciences
10.3 Business and Technology
10.4 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
11 Controversies
11.1 Renaming Controversy
11.2 Tenural Denial to Cherian George
12 See also
13 References
14 External links
History[edit]
Nanyang Technological Institute (1981-1991)[edit]
Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) was set up on 1 August 1981 with a charter to train three-quarters of Singapore’s engineers. When NTI started in 1982, it had a total student population of 582 in three engineering disciplines – civil and structural, electrical and electronic, and mechanical and production engineering. By 1990, the institute’s undergraduate student population had grown to 6,832. The first two graduate students were admitted in 1986. Three engineering schools were added, and the School of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore was transferred to NTI in 1987. A school of applied science was also started. In 1990, the government announced that the Institute of Education would be merged with the College of Physical Education to form the National Institute of Education and that it would be part of the new NTU upon its establishment in 1991.
Present form: Nanyang Technological University (1991-present)[edit]
In 1991, NTI merged with the National Institute of Education (NIE) to form Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The alumni rolls of the former Nanyang University were transferred to NTU in 1996. NTU became autonomous in 2006 and is today one of the two largest public universities in Singapore.
Campuses[edit]
Yunnan Garden Campus[edit]
NTU Administration Building
NTU's primary campus is the 200-hectare (2.0 km2; 0.772 sq mi) Yunnan Garden Campus which is situated adjacent to the Jurong West district of Singapore. It is the largest university campus on the island of Singapore and also houses Singapore's largest on-campus residence infrastructure including 18 halls of residence for undergraduates and two graduate halls.
The campus grounds were originally donated by the Singapore Hokkien Association to Nanyang University, a Chinese-medium university inaugurated in 1953. In 1980, the Government of Singapore merged Nanyang University with the University of Singapore to form the present-day National University of Singapore. The following year, the Nanyang University grounds were granted to the Nanyang Technological Institute, a newly formed English-medium engineering college. In 1991, NTI merged with the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore's main teaching college, to form the present-day Nanyang Technological University.
Chinese Heritage Centre, formerly the administrative building of Nanyang University
Nanyang Lake
The former Nanyang University administration building was beautifully restored into the Chinese Heritage Centre and was gazetted as a national monument in 1998 - now overlooking the historical Yunnan Garden. The Nanyang University Memorial and original Nanyang University Arch were also declared national monuments of Singapore in 1998. The NTU Art & Heritage Museum is an approved public museum under the National Heritage Board’s Approved Museum Scheme; benefactors who donate artworks and artefacts to NTU enjoy double tax deductions. There is a small lake between the Chinese Heritage Centre and Hall of Residence 4 called Nanyang Lake. Only members of NTU Anglers' Club permit holder, the fishing club at NTU, are allowed to fish in this lake.
In 2008, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the world’s largest foundations for entrepreneurship, selected NTU as the first Kauffman campus outside of the US.
The campus also served as the Youth Olympic Village for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010.
Singapore's first eco-business park, CleanTech Park, is situated next to NTU's main campus. It is proposed to be developed in three phases with an estimated completion year of 2030. The park's first multi-tenanted building, CleanTech One, was opened in October 2010. CleanTech One's tenants include those from the public sector (the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore), as well as from the private sector (DHI Water & Environment, Toray Industries, Silecs International, CIMA Nanotech, Diamond Energy, the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), Yingli Solar, and Pfizer).
NTU@one-north[edit]
Apart from the Yunnan campus, NTU also operates a satellite campus at the one-north business park. It comprises two wings with educational and alumni clubhouse facilities primarily allowing the university to enhance its delivery of continuing education programmes as well as for external collaborations.
The educational facilities include a 215-seat auditorium, an 80-seat lecture theatre, six 45-seat lecture theatres, twenty-one 18 to 50-seat seminar rooms, three 18 to 27-seat computer rooms and eight 6-seat discussion rooms. Alumni clubhouse facilities include a fun pool, a Chinese restaurant, games arcade, wine bar, lounge, karaoke rooms, games rooms, gymnasium, childcare centre and SPA. The Campus is also home to NTU's Centre for Continuing Education and the Confucius Institute of NTU.
Novena Campus[edit]
A third campus, Novena Campus, is situated close to LKCMedicine’s partner teaching hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital in downtown Novena. The new 20-storey Clinical Sciences Building is expected to be completed in 2016. The CSB will also be home to LKCMedicine researchers, with the laboratories interconnected through collaborative spaces.
Colleges, Schools and Institutes[edit]
The North Spine
NTU is organised into several colleges and schools, each corresponding to different fields of study. The various engineering schools, which were consolidated to form the College of Engineering in 2001, together with Nanyang Business School, the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information and the National Institute of Education have been part of NTU from its inception. More recently, NTU has established additional schools for the Biological Sciences (2001), Humanities and Social Sciences (2004), Physical & Mathematical Sciences (2005), and Art, Design and Media (2009). In 2013, NTU and Imperial College London jointly established a new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which is based in the Novena campus.
NTU also hosts a number of autonomous institutes: the National Institute of Education, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and two recently established research institutes.
Nanyang Business School[edit]
Nanyang Business School (NBS) has over 4000 undergraduates and postgraduates pursuing degrees in Accountancy and Business, as well as one of the world's top MBA programmes. Its faculty is made up of more than 160 professors from over 20 countries. NBS offers undergraduate programmes in Accountancy, Business as well as double degrees in Accountancy and Business, Business and Computer Engineering, and Business and Computer Science. Students enrolled into the Business programme are allowed to specialise in their second and penultimate year of study in six areas, namely: Actuarial Science, Banking & Finance, Business Analytics, Human Resource Consulting, Marketing, Tourism & Hospitality Management. Graduate programmes offered include the MBA, EMBA, and MSc Accountancy.
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