National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest and largest university. It traces its origins to 1905, when the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School opened. It took its present form in 1980 through the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University. It is a comprehensive public research university, and its main campus of about 150 hectares sits at Kent Ridge in the southwest of the island, with further campuses at Bukit Timah and Outram.

Its academic units include the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science, the College of Design and Engineering, the School of Computing, NUS Business School, the Faculty of Law, the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and Duke-NUS Medical School. Graduate researchers work in the Centre for Quantum Technologies, the Cancer Science Institute, the Mechanobiology Institute and the East Asian Institute, with National University Hospital as the main teaching hospital.

NUS enrolls more than 40,000 students, and roughly a quarter of them are graduate students. Graduate cohorts are strongly international, drawing heavily from China, India and Southeast Asia. Alumni include former Singapore presidents Tony Tan and Halimah Yacob and former prime minister Goh Chok Tong.

Graduate study covers research master's and PhD programs, many coordinated through the NUS Graduate School, as well as a large portfolio of coursework master's degrees in business, engineering, computing, public policy and public health. The academic year has two semesters, running from August to December and from January to May. PhD students commonly hold the NUS Research Scholarship, the President's Graduate Fellowship or the A*STAR Singapore International Graduate Award. Kent Ridge connects to the city by MRT and sits close to the One-North research and technology district.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, National University of Singapore lists 161 graduate programs across 50 subjects: 107 master's programs and 49 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in literature, law and computer science. National University of Singapore holds rank 28 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.