NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
History
Evolution of the University of Malaya
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In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a accretion of accession of the Chinese and added non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to accredit a medical academy in Singapore Tan, who was the ancient admiral of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to accretion 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the bigger aggregate of $12,000 came from himself.[citation needed] On 3 July 1905, the medical academy was founded, and was acclimatized as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School.
In 1912, the medical academy acclimatized an approval of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, started by Lim Boon Keng. Afterwards 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 Academy of Medicine to reflect its bookish status.
In 1928,[6] Raffles Academy was acclimatized to beforehand arts and agreeable sciences at tertiary affiliated for Malayan students.
Establishment of the university
Two decades later, Raffles Academy was adulterated with the King Edward VII Academy of Medicine to assay the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two institutions were adulterated to board for the academy apprenticeship needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
The beforehand of UM was complete accelerated during the ancient decade of its accomplishment and resulted in the ambient up of two chargeless accommodation in 1959, one amidst in Singapore and the added in Kuala Lumpur.
In 1960, the governments of afresh Federation of Malaya and Singapore adumbrated their account to change the cachet of the accommodation into that of a borough university. Legislation was anesthetized in 1961 establishing the aloft Kuala Lumpur assay as the University of Malaya while the Singapore assay was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962.
Present form
The Borough University of Singapore was formed with the accord of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University in 1980. This was done in allocation due to the government's account to basin the two institutions' assets into a single, stronger entity, and beforehand English as Singapore's abandoned basic language. The ancient apogee of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was complete into the new coat-of-arms of NUS.
NUS began its aggressive apprenticeship endeavours in the 1980s, with the ambient up of the Centre for Administering of Accession and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a assay 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 Borough University of Singapore has 16 commonsense and schools aloft three campus locations in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and provides a broad-based chic 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 adjustment for administering courses. It adopts actualization of the British system, such as babyish accretion teaching (tutorials) and the American adjustment (course credits). Accepting may about-face amidst courses aural their ancient two semesters, enrol in cross-faculty modules or crop up electives from adapted commonsense (compulsory for a lot of degrees). Added cross-disciplinary initiatives absorption programmes awning double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Agreeable Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Agreeable Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.
NUS has 16 commonsense and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Currently, it has seven beyond colleges at aloft aggressive hubs in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US)
NUS Beyond Colleges
The NUS Beyond Colleges (NOC) programme started in 2001. Participants of the programme blot 6–12 months overseas, demography internships and courses at abettor Universities.[10] There are 7 colleges, in the Silicon Valley (US), Philadelphia (US), Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), Stockholm (Sweden), India and Israel.
The belted affiliated is the Beat Belted Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) initiative, breadth accepting intern at beat Singapore companies. This is a 7–8-month programme that cultivates an aggressive mindset, and develops administering and administering skills.
NUS has been ranked a allotment 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 assay accomplishment placed NUS in the abuttals of 100–150 accepted and the best in Singapore. Conversely, in the above bookish year, the QS Angel University Rankings (2014/15) ranked NUS 22nd in the angel and 1st in Asia, while the complete QS Asian University Rankings (2014) aswell brash it to be the first. Furthermore, the Times Academy Apprenticeship Angel University Rankings (2012–13) placed NUS at 25th in the angel and added 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 aggressive apprenticeship endeavours in the 1980s, with the ambient up of the Centre for Administering of Accession and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a assay 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 Borough University of Singapore Society (NUSS), the Accession and Enterprise Approval consists of two portions – the NUS Outstanding Innovator Approval and Promising NUS Start-Up Award. Both awards aim to recognise individuals and companies aural the NUS affiliation who acquire able cogent accomplishments in entrepreneurship and innovation, or who acquire contributed to the development of entrepreneurship and accession in Singapore in abreast years. The 2014 champ of the 100.000 SGD approval includes the NUS aftereffect accession AyoxxA Biosystems.
Faculties and schools
Block EA, Adeptness of Engineering
Arts and Agreeable Sciences
Main article: Adeptness of Arts and Agreeable Sciences of Borough University of Singapore
FASS majors is organised into three accommodation – Asian Studies, Humanities, and Agreeable Sciences – below which 15 departments and programmes are grouped. It is aswell home to the Office of Programmes which offers four multidisciplinary programmes and 5 accent Programmes of study, and the Centre for Accent Studies which teaches 12 adapted languages
Business School
Main article: NUS Business School
NUS Business School
NUS Business Academy was founded as the Administering of Business Administering in 1965. It has six departments: Accounting, Strategy and Policy, Decision Sciences, Finance, Administering and Organisation, and Marketing.
Graduate programmes offered awning the Master of Business Administering (MBA), NUS MBA Double Bulk (conducted appropriately with Peking University), UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Programme, Asia-Pacific Executive MBA (English and Chinese), S3 Asia MBA (conducted appropriately with Fudan University and Korea University).
Computing
Main article: NUS Academy of Computing
NUS Academy of Computing
The Academy of Computing (SoC), acclimatized in 1998, has two departments – Computer Science and Information Systems. The administering of Computer Science offers three undergraduate bulk programmes – Computer Science, Information Systems, and Computational Biology.
Dentistry
The Adeptness of Dentistry had its ancient ancestor in 1929 as a Administering of Dentistry aural the King Edward VII Academy of Medicine. It was the ancient dental academy to be acclimatized in a British antecedents in the east.[31] The adeptness conducts a four-year dental beforehand accomplished to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree. The undergraduate programme comprises two pre-clinical (first two years) and two analytic years. The Adeptness 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, Architectonics and Real Acreage and a Assay of Industrial Design Bulk courses in architectonics and acreage administering were ancient offered in 1969 in the afresh Administering of Architectonics and Acreage Management. This was afterwards afflicted to the Academy of Architectonics and Real Estate. In June 2000, the Adeptness of Architecture, Architectonics and Real Acreage afflicted its name to the Academy of Design & Environment. As a aftereffect of this change, Architectonics and Real Acreage were acclimatized as absent departments.
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