The
National University of Singapore abbr. NUS is third largest public and
sovereign universities in Singapore. Established in 1905, it is the age-old
organization of higher learning in Singapore, as well as the biggest university
in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum proposed. NUS is a
research-intensive, broad university with an capitalist aspect.NUS is regularly
graded as one of Asia's top universities by both UK ranking systems, the QS
World University Ranking and the Times Higher Education World University
Rankings. According to the newest 2015 QS World University Rankings, NUS is
graded 12th in the world and maintained its position as 1st in Asia. NUS also
gained well in the 2015-16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings,
coming 1st in Asia and 26th in the world. Unusually, the ARWU
ranking system declared by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that determines
universities educational achievements and research performance regularly places
NUS in the range of 100/150 worldwide and first in Singapore. In addition,
2014's U.S News and World Report, Best Global Universities Rankings places NUS
at 55th in the world. In 2015, The Economist graded NUS Business School, 87th
globally and 2nd in Singapore. NUS's primary campus is situated in southwest
Singapore at Kent Ridge, with an area of about 1.83 km2
(0.71 sq mi). The Bukit Timah campus accommodate the Faculty of Law,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and research institutes, whereas the
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is located at the Outram campus.
History
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In
1904 September, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other
non-European communities, and appealed the Governor of the Straits Settlements,
sir John Anderson, to launch a medical school in Singapore. Tan the first
president of the Straits Chinese British Association, raised 87,077 Straits
dollars, , of which the highest amount of $12,000 came from himself. On 1905
July3, the medical school was established and called as the Straits Settlements
and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. In 1912, the medical
school obtained an donation of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund,
initiated by Lim Boon Keng. Later on 1913 November18, the school was renamed to
the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was again renamed the King
Edward VII College of Medicine to replicate its educational status. In 1928,
Raffles College was launched to endorse arts and social sciences at tertiary
level for Malayan students.
Establishment of the university
Two
decades after, Raffles College was combined with the King Edward VII College of
Medicine to establish the University of Malaya on 1949 October 8. The two
institutions were combined to provide for the higher education required by the
Federation of Malaya and Singapore. The development of UM was very fast during
the first decade of its foundation and outcome in the set up of two autonomous
divisions in 1959, one situated in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur. In
1960, the regimes of Federation of Malaya and Singapore showed their wish to
alter the status of the divisions into that of a national university.
Legislation was passed in 1961 launching the former Kuala Lumpur division as
the University of Malaya while the Singapore division changed the name,
the University of Singapore on 1962 January 1.
Present form
In
1980, the National University of Singapore was established with the combination
of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University. It was due to the
government's desire to group the two institutions' sources into a single,
stronger entity, and promote English as Singapore's only main language. The
primary apex of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was integrated
into the new coat-of-arms of NUS. NUS started its entrepreneurial education
accomplishments in the 1980s, with the setting up of the Centre for Management
of Innovation and Techno-entrepreneurship in 1988. In 2001, the name was
changed as the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a division of NUS
Enterprise. At present NEC is led by Professor Wong Poh Kam and its activities
are prepared into 4 areas, comprising a business incubator, pragmatic
education, pragmatic development, and pragmatic research. Right now, the
National University of Singapore has 16 faculties and schools across three
campus localities in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and offers
a broad-based curriculum emphasized by multi-disciplinary courses and
cross-faculty enrichment.
Education
NUS
have a semester-based modular system for performing courses. It implements
features of the British system, such as small group teaching and the American
system. Students may relocate between courses within their first two semesters,
enroll in cross-faculty sections or take up optional from different faculties
(compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary schemes study program
consists of double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences
and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering;
and Business and Law. NUS have 16 faculties and schools, including a Music
Conservatory. Right now, it has seven overseas colleges at major
entrepreneurial centers in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India,
Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US).
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