Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University is a public autonomous research university in Singapore. It opened in 1981 as Nanyang Technological Institute on the former campus of Nanyang University, a Chinese-language university founded in 1955. In 1991 it became a university and absorbed the National Institute of Education. Its main campus in Jurong West covers about 200 hectares, the largest in Singapore. Buildings on campus include the Hive learning hub.

NTU is organized into colleges of Engineering, Computing and Data Science, Science, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and the Nanyang Business School. Autonomous schools include the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, founded with Imperial College London, the National Institute of Education, and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. NTU is best known for materials science, electrical and electronic engineering, and artificial intelligence. Its research centers include the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering.

NTU enrolls about 35,000 students, and roughly a third of them are in graduate coursework and research programs. Graduate students come from dozens of countries, with large groups from China, India and Southeast Asia. Faculty are recruited internationally, and the university works closely with national research agencies and industry laboratories.

Graduate programs include one-year coursework MSc degrees in engineering, computing and finance, the Nanyang MBA, and research master's and PhD degrees supervised within individual schools. Research students may receive the Nanyang Research Scholarship or the Singapore International Graduate Award, which is run with A*STAR and funds doctoral research across university and agency laboratories. The academic year has two semesters, running from August to May. The campus is largely residential and linked to the city by bus and MRT connections at Boon Lay and Pioneer.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Nanyang Technological University lists 96 graduate programs across 38 subjects: 67 master's programs and 29 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in electrical engineering, education and communication, media & journalism. Nanyang Technological University holds rank 45 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.