The Civic University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS; Malay: Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura; Chinese: pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Guólì Dàxué; Abbreviated Tamil: Ciṅkappūr Tēciyap Palkalaikkaḻakam ?) is a university amid in Singapore. Founded in 1905, it is the oldest college acquirements convention in Singapore, as able-bodied as the better university in the country in agreement of apprentice enrolment and class offered. It is ranked as one of the best universities in Asia, agreement 22nd in the apple and 1st in Asia in the 2014 QS rankings. Conversely, the Bookish Baronial of Apple Universities ARWU baronial arrangement that measures universities bookish achievements and analysis achievement consistently placed NUS in the ambit of 100–150 apple wide. The university's capital campus is amid in southwest Singapore at Kent Ridge, with an breadth of about 1.83 km2 (0.71 sq mi). The Bukit Timah campus houses the Adroitness of Law, Lee Kuan Yew Academy of Public Policy and analysis institutes, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical Academy Singapore is amid at the Outram campus.


History
Evolution of the University of Malaya
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In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a accumulation of assembly of the Chinese and added non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to authorize a medical academy in Singapore Tan, who was the aboriginal admiral of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to accession 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the better bulk of $12,000 came from himself.[citation needed] On 3 July 1905, the medical academy was founded, and was accepted as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School.
In 1912, the medical academy accustomed an accolade of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, started by Lim Boon Keng. After on 18 November 1913, the name of the academy was afflicted to the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was afresh afflicted to the King Edward VII College of Medicine to reflect its bookish status.
In 1928,[6] Raffles College was accustomed to advance arts and amusing sciences at tertiary akin for Malayan students.
Establishment of the university
Two decades later, Raffles College was alloyed with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to anatomy the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two institutions were alloyed to accommodate for the college apprenticeship needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
The advance of UM was actual accelerated during the aboriginal decade of its enactment and resulted in the ambience up of two free capacity in 1959, one amid in Singapore and the added in Kuala Lumpur.
In 1960, the governments of again Federation of Malaya and Singapore adumbrated their admiration to change the cachet of the capacity into that of a civic university. Legislation was anesthetized in 1961 establishing the above Kuala Lumpur analysis as the University of Malaya while the Singapore analysis was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962.
Present form
The Civic University of Singapore was formed with the alliance of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University in 1980. This was done in allotment due to the government's admiration to basin the two institutions' assets into a single, stronger entity, and advance English as Singapore's alone capital language. The aboriginal acme of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was congenital into the new coat-of-arms of NUS.
NUS began its ambitious apprenticeship endeavours in the 1980s, with the ambience up of the Centre for Administration of Addition and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a analysis of NUS Enterprise. NEC is currently headed by Professor Wong Poh Kam[8] and its activities are organised into 4 areas, including a business incubator, empiric education, entrepreneurship development, and entrepreneurship research.
Today, the Civic University of Singapore has 16 commonsense and schools beyond three campus locations in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and provides a broad-based class underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment.
National University of Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (2013)
Education
NUS has a semester-based modular arrangement for administering courses. It adopts appearance of the British system, such as baby accumulation teaching (tutorials) and the American arrangement (course credits). Acceptance may alteration amid courses aural their aboriginal two semesters, enrol in cross-faculty modules or yield up electives from altered commonsense (compulsory for a lot of degrees). Added cross-disciplinary initiatives abstraction programmes cover double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Amusing Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Amusing Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.
NUS has 16 commonsense and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Currently, it has seven across colleges at above ambitious hubs in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US)
NUS Across Colleges
The NUS Across Colleges (NOC) programme started in 2001. Participants of the programme absorb 6–12 months overseas, demography internships and courses at accomplice Universities.[10] There are 7 colleges, in the Silicon Valley (US), Philadelphia (US), Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), Stockholm (Sweden), India and Israel.
The bounded agnate is the Avant-garde Bounded Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) initiative, area acceptance intern at avant-garde Singapore companies. This is a 7–8-month programme that cultivates an ambitious mindset, and develops administration and administration skills.
NUS has been ranked a part of the best in both Singapore and Asia by QS rankings, which is based heavily on bearding surveys on universities reputation.
The ARWU (2013) that measures universities bookish achievements and analysis achievement placed NUS in the ambit of 100–150 common and the best in Singapore. Conversely, in the aforementioned bookish year, the QS Apple University Rankings (2014/15) ranked NUS 22nd in the apple and 1st in Asia, while the absolute QS Asian University Rankings (2014) aswell advised it to be the first. Furthermore, the Times College Apprenticeship Apple University Rankings (2012–13) placed NUS at 25th in the apple and additional in Asia, while its acceptability rankings placed it at 22nd globally.
In 2011, the Financial Times placed NUS Academy of Business at 23rd in their all-around MBA baronial tables
Entrepreneurship
NUS began its ambitious apprenticeship endeavours in the 1980s, with the ambience up of the Centre for Administration of Addition and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a analysis of NUS Enterprise. NEC is currently headed by Professor Wong Poh Kam[8] and its activities are organised into 4 areas, including a business incubator, empiric education, entrepreneurship development, and entrepreneurship research.
Jointly organised by NUS Enterprise and Civic University of Singapore Society (NUSS), the Addition and Enterprise Accolade consists of two portions – the NUS Outstanding Innovator Accolade and Promising NUS Start-Up Award. Both awards aim to recognise individuals and companies aural the NUS association who accept accomplished cogent accomplishments in entrepreneurship and innovation, or who accept contributed to the development of entrepreneurship and addition in Singapore in contempo years. The 2014 champ of the 100.000 SGD accolade includes the NUS aftereffect aggregation AyoxxA Biosystems.
Faculties and schools
Block EA, Adroitness of Engineering
Arts and Amusing Sciences
Main article: Adroitness of Arts and Amusing Sciences of Civic University of Singapore
FASS majors is organised into three capacity – Asian Studies, Humanities, and Amusing Sciences – beneath which 15 departments and programmes are grouped. It is aswell home to the Office of Programmes which offers four multidisciplinary programmes and 5 accessory Programmes of study, and the Centre for Accent Studies which teaches 12 altered languages
Business School
Main article: NUS Business School
NUS Business School
NUS Business Academy was founded as the Administration of Business Administration in 1965. It has six departments: Accounting, Strategy and Policy, Decision Sciences, Finance, Administration and Organisation, and Marketing.
Graduate programmes offered cover the Master of Business Administration (MBA), NUS MBA Double Amount (conducted accordingly with Peking University), UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Programme, Asia-Pacific Executive MBA (English and Chinese), S3 Asia MBA (conducted accordingly with Fudan University and Korea University).
Computing
Main article: NUS Academy of Computing
NUS Academy of Computing
The Academy of Computing (SoC), accustomed in 1998, has two departments – Computer Science and Information Systems. The administration of Computer Science offers three undergraduate amount programmes – Computer Science, Information Systems, and Computational Biology.
Dentistry
The Adroitness of Dentistry had its aboriginal ancestry in 1929 as a Administration of Dentistry aural the King Edward VII College of Medicine. It was the aboriginal dental academy to be accustomed in a British antecedents in the east.[31] The adroitness conducts a four-year dental advance arch to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree. The undergraduate programme comprises two pre-clinical (first two years) and two analytic years. The Adroitness of Dentistry is organised into 3 bookish departments accoutrement the disciplines of Oral, and Maxillofacial Surgery, Preventive Dentistry and Restorative Dentistry.
Design and Environment
The Academy of Design and Environment (SDE) comprises three departments: Architecture, Architecture and Real Acreage and a Analysis of Industrial Design Amount courses in architecture and acreage administration were aboriginal offered in 1969 in the again Administration of Architecture and Acreage Management. This was after afflicted to the Academy of Architecture and Real Estate. In June 2000, the Adroitness of Architecture, Architecture and Real Acreage afflicted its name to the Academy of Design & Environment. As a aftereffect of this change, Architecture and Real Acreage were accustomed as abstracted departments.