About NTU Singapore

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   Recognition
   
   We are internationally recognised as a modern research-intensive university, with strong technological base and traditions, and a highly rated business school.
   One of biggest engineering Colleges in the World now becoming a more comprehensive university
   
   NTU is  one of the biggest engineering Colleges in the World and we are becoming more comprehensive as we rapidly build up our reputation in advanced natural sciences together with an innovative Arts and Humanities capabilities, something rarely found in association with science and technology. In addition, we have one of the region’s leading Business Schools and Singapore’s only School of Communicationa and Information (media and journalism)
   An international university
   
   Our undergraduate student body is predominantly drawn from Singaporean citizens and Permanent Residents, as befits a leading national university, but it also welcomes students from many other countries, especially from the ASEAN region and other parts of Asia.
   At the postgraduate level, the majority of our students come from outside Singapore and we have an international intake of research students
   Our faculty are drawn from over 40 countries worldwide and this produces a diversity of views, backgrounds and cultures , all adding up to a vibrant and stimulating campus
   Highly ranked overall as 14 in Asia and 24 worldwide in Business Schools
   
   NTU is ranked 14th in the first ranking of Asian universities made by the compilers of the Times Higher Education (THE) - QS World University Rankings. In addition, the Nanyang Business School's  (NBS)MBA programme has jumped more than 20 places to be ranked 24th among the top MBA programmes worldwide in the Financial Times 2009 Global MBA Rankings, the highest achieved by a Singapore institution so far. This year's ranking places NBS in the league of the elite business schools worldwide.
   New Structures
   
   Since 2007, under President Su Guaning, NTU has adopted a Provost system for the management of academic matters. The first Provost of NTU is Professor Bertil Andersson, a world leading biochemist and formerly Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation and Rector of Linköping University in Sweden. He is a currently a Trustee of the Nobel Foundation and former Chair of its Chemistry Committee.
   Provost Andersson is supported by two Associate Provosts, Professor Er Meng Hwa, Senior Associate Provost in charge of undergraduate education, and Professor Lam Khin Yong, who looks after graduate education and special projects.
   The university is structured under four broadly based Colleges:
   Engineering
   Business
   Science
   Humanities , Arts & Social Sciences
   Alongside them we have the autonomous institutes:
   National Institute of Education (NIE) a centre of excellence in all aspects of education
   Rajaratnam School of Strategic and International Studies (RSIS), one the World’s foremost graduate schools specialsing in security and terrorism studies; and
   Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), a new and highly regarded centre for Earth sciences serving as a regional focus for tectonics and volcanology with some of the foremost researchers in the World on its staff.
   New pan-university strategic platforms have also been created
   
   Institute for Media Innovation for interactive digital media;
   Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) in all aspects of water technologies; and
   ERI@N, which brings together all NTU’s diverse research into energy.
   Multi-campus University
   
   The main campus for NTU is the Yunnan Garden Campus, a beautiful semi-rural and tropical setting in the west of  Singapore Island, donated by the Hokkien Clan Association. This more than 200 hectare campus is home not only to the academic complex of the university but also to our students, as we are a largely residential university, as well as many of our staff. NTU also has campus at One North, Singapore’s research hub containing Biopolis and Fusionopolis of the A*Star institutes. Additional NTU laboratoies are also being based in Biopolis and NTU will also have a presence in the future CREATE campus. At One North, the campus houses that Confucius Institute, the EU Centre in Singapore and the NTU Centre for Continuing Education (lifelong learning).
   Medical School
   
   After many months of intensive work, a proposal for a Medical School at NTU, in collaboration with the Tan Tock Seng Hospital as its clinical base, and in response to a request from the Ministry of Education, has been formally submitted it to the Ministry. The proposal was prepared by a Task Force, led by Professor Jan Carlstedt-Duke, former Dean at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, who is the Director of the Medical School Project. Our proposed international partners are Imperial College London (UK), the University of Sydney (Australia), the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and the University of Warwick (UK).

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