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Campus. Urban, 150 ha (370 acres) Colours. NUS Orange, NUS Blue [ 4] Website. www .nus .edu .sg. The National University of Singapore ( NUS) is a national public collegiate and research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.
www.singaporetech.edu.sg. The Singapore Institute of Technology ( SIT or Singaporetech) is a public autonomous university in Singapore. [ 4] The university offers industry-focused, applied degree programmes; it confers its own degree programmes as well as specialised degree programmes with overseas universities. [ 5]
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. [1] The university along with the Nanyang Technological University are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications. [2 ...
A fifth autonomous university Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) was announced in 2009. [85] The institution started in 2010 and is intended to provide an upgrading pathway for polytechnic and arts institution graduates. [86] [87] In 2017, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) was declared as the country's sixth autonomous public ...
In 1980, the Government of Singapore merged Nanyang University with the University of Singapore to form the present-day National University of Singapore (NUS). This was a source of significant discontent amongst NU students and alumni, because NU had been a Chinese-medium university, whereas the newly merged NUS was (and is) an English-medium ...
The University of the Arts Singapore[ 1] ( UAS) is Singapore 's first public-funded private university of the arts. It was formally announced in 2021, as an alliance between LASALLE College of the Arts (LASALLE) and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). Under this arrangement, the two institutions operate as distinct entities yet allows students ...
Singapore universities adopt a hybrid of US and British academic ranks. Faculty members on the tenuRE TRACK ARE appointed for sustained excellence in both teaching and research. Assistant professors are appointed on term contracts, while associate professors and professors may be appointed either with tenure or on term contract.
SIM University ( UniSIM) was a private university in Singapore that opened in 2005 before shutting down in 2017. The university was established and managed under the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) Group. It was the only private university in Singapore after Nanyang University. The university practiced an open-door academic policy ...