Executive Summary of NTU Singapore

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   In pursuit of its vision and mission to become a great global university founded on science and technology, NTU has been taking many new initiatives in order to achieve this goal. Now we are internationally recognised as a modern research-intensive university, with strong technological base and traditions, and a highly rated business school. 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.
   
   We are an international university in all respects recruiting both undergraduate and graduate students from many countries, not only in S E Asia and in terms of faculty recruitment we have people from well over 40 countries.
   
   We are highly ranked in both World and Asian terms and are currently ranked 14 in Asia and our Business School is ranked 24 in the World by the Financial Times in respect to our MBA programme.
   
   Over the past few years the University has been re-structured into four major Colleges and a series of autonomous institutes.
   
   We are a residential university operating on a multi-campus basis.
   
   Currently, we are in advanced discussions to establish a Medical School at NTU which will bring together medical science and education alongside our strength in engineering.
   
   There has been a renewed impetus given to research, stimulated in part by the recruitment of leading scientists and technologists from across the World. These leading figures will nucleate advanced research groups in forefront area.
   
   The university is fully committed to the development of multidisciplinary research in many areas of research endeavour. This is aided by our own Institute of Advanced Studies which can form the core of such work, especially in the area of complexity research.
   
   We do not neglect quality control which is essential to ensure that what we do is always benchmarked against the best international standards.
   
   We have established our own high level international advisory body – the NTUR ‘Research Council’, all our major projects are expected to have high level international advisory panels and our Appointments, Promotion and Tenure process for faculty is extremely rigorous.
   
   In undergraduate education, we have seen a rise in the qualifications of the students admitted to NTU.
   
   We have reviewed our undergraduate education system to ensure that it can provide a new basis for learning centred around small group learning and with a broad educational base, without neglecting the high standards expected of a World leading university. This is an ongoing project which will also make use of the latest pedagogic approaches supported by technology. The aim is to broaden the choice available to our students including overseas exchange and also the potential to carry out research within one’s undergraduate programme.
   
   We have dramatically increased our graduate student enrolment especially for PhDs and are now recruiting students from a wide variety of countries beyond our local region, China and India. Our aim is to have an annual intake of 600 doctoral students each year.
   
   We are now able to offer joint PhD programmes with Imperial College London, the Technical University of Munich, KAIST and other agreements are being negotiated. In the case of Imperial College, this is the first ever such joint PhD agreement that it has signed with an overseas university and is a significant mark of confidence in NTU.
   
   We are becoming increasingly competitive in winning research funding, not only in Singapore but also internationally.
   
   We have introduced a highly competitive junior faculty recruitment scheme, the Nanyang Assistant Professorships and this have attracted several hundred very bright candidates from some of the leading institutions in the World.
   
   In the National Research Foundation’s prestigious Research Fellowship programme (in which the selected candidates receive a start up grant of $US 1.5 million) we have been outstandingly successful with 5 out of 10 award holders in the first year and 8 out of 10 in the second year choosing NTU as their host institution.
   
   Together with the NAPs, this means that we have recruited nearly 30 additional top notch young faculty to our ranks over the past two years.
   
   We have gained one Research Centre of Excellence in the Call for proposals for these major investments of $S150 million over 10 years. The RCE is in earth sciences -  the Earth Observatory of Singapore –  directed by some of the World’s leading Earth scientists in earthquake studies, tectonics and volcanology.
   
   In innovation, we have established the first Kauffman campus for entrepreneurship education in Asia and continue to develop our educational programmes in this area.
   
   Recently, we have been recently awarded $S 6.5 million to establish new innovation opportunities and we encourage and develop a wide variety of start-up companies.
   
   We are a partner of choice for many leading technologically based multi-national companies based in or relocating to Singapore.
   
   We strongly believe in the international networking of universities and have led the creation of the Global Alliance of Technological Universities bringing together major intuitions from Asia, Europe and North America.
   
   We have led the establishment of the EU Centre for Singapore which is hosted at our One North campus.
   
   We are continuing to develop partnerships across the globe with many World leading institutions.
   
   We are creating many new strategic research initiatives, the most prominent being the Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), the Institute of Media Innovation (IMI) and the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N). We also have new initiatives in structural biology and in Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering.
   
   To support the new research ‘push, we are committed to provide some of the best research infrastructures available to a university. These include High Performance Computing, Structural Genomics facility, a NanoFabrication Centre and a major analytical and characterisation facility.

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