The National University of Singapore (NUS), founded in 1980 by a merger of the University of Singapore (founded in 1962) and Nanyang University (founded in 1956), offers the best environment and training to all its undergraduate and postgraduate students. Every year the university invites applications to its graduate programs and offers attractive research scholarships to graduate program candidates.
Today NUS is the largest university in Singapore. It has a student population of over 32,000 students, of which over 9,000 are graduate students.
The university offers a variety of undergraduate courses such as Law, Engineering, Bioengineering, Architecture, Business Administration, Computing, Dentistry, Industrial Design, Medicine, Nursing, Music, Science and so on. Students may opt for a double degree program such as Business Administration and Law, Economics and Law, Law and life Sciences, Computer Science and Mathematics, Law and Politics.
National University of Singapore (NUS) is ranked 33 in the Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Rankings 2007.
According to the Financial Times (FT) 2006 EMBA ranking of the Top 85 EMBA programs, NUS Business School rises in rankings for Executive MBA programs to be among world's Top 29.
NUS Business School did extremely well in two of the sub-categories - it came out Top 5 for the categories of 'International Attendees', and 'Top Salaries in IT/ Telecommunications'.
According to the THES 2006 World Ranking in the field of technology, NUS Faculty of Engineering ranked 8th in the World's top 100 in Technology.
According to the Newsweek Ranking of Global University, NUS is ranked 36th in the top 100 universities.
