They mould outstanding graduates with internationally recognised degrees. Research and scholarship opportunities are also available to post-graduate students.
Since its founding in 1905, NUS has since evolved into a comprehensive university offering courses in major disciplines such as the Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Law, Arts & Social Sciences and Medicine.
NTU was set up in 1981 to provide facilities for tertiary education and research in engineering and technology. It has since incorporated the National Institute of Education (NIE) "the teachers' college" and expanded to include Accountancy, Business and Communication Studies.
SMU was established in 2000 as the first publicly-funded private university with a focus on business and management programmes.
International Universities in Singapore In addition to local universities, many of the world's leading foreign universities have also established their presence in Singapore. These leading foreign universities have either set up a physical campus (institutes of higher learning) or have joint collaborations/programmes with local universities (local tie-ups).
Leading International Institutions with Asian Campus located in Singapore
In addition, our local universities, the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University also have joint programmes with more than 16 other institutions around the world. These include: University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Beijing University for Chinese Medicine, ESIEE (France), Australian National University, University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), UCLA Anderson School of Management (USA), Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Supelec) (France), Peking University (China), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), University of Basel (Switzerland), Technical University of Denmark, King's College London, Tsinghua University (China), Université Pierre Et Marie Curie, Université Paris Sud and the French Grandes Écoles.
There are also foreign specialised institutes in Singapore, who have either set up campuses here or have tie ups with the local polytechnics; these enable polytechnic students to pursue a degree in related courses after they have completed their diplomas at the polytechnics.
The three local universities in Singapore :