
Universities/Singapore/Nanyang Technological University

南洋理工大学
Nanyang Technological University
A large campus in the west of Jurong. Its engineering foundation remains, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering is the line most often compared.
Singapore · Singapore
Country / city
Public comprehensive research university
Type
Site traceable to 1955
Founded
12
QS World University Rankings 2027
About the university
A large campus in the west of Jurong. Its engineering foundation remains, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering is the line most often compared.
NTU's main campus is in the west of Jurong, on the site of Nanyang University, founded in 1955. Today it is Singapore's other large comprehensive research university, and engineering is still the easiest part to see. The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) is large, and business, communication and some humanities are here too. The campus is open, and the radius of daily life feels different from NUS at Kent Ridge.
The undergraduate degree in electrical and electronic engineering is four years, with circuits, analogue and digital electronics, semiconductors, signals and systems and electromagnetics at the core, followed by directions such as power and energy, integrated circuits, communications or intelligent systems, plus design projects and a final-year project. Other branches of engineering have different prerequisites. Business is a different school. Most mainland families put NUS and NTU on one table to compare subject structure, campus and teaching style.
It suits a child whose science and engineering route is already fairly clear and who accepts the daily life of a large campus. For those who care more about the subject range of a comprehensive university and a city radius, NUS is usually the first comparison. Do not ask only which ranks higher.
Who should go, and who should look elsewhere
Suits this university
A clear science and engineering route
Willing to put it on one comparison table with NUS
Look elsewhere
If you care more about the subject range of a comprehensive university and a city radius
NUS is usually the first comparison.
National University of SingaporeCommon application directions
The departments and programmes that come up most often in consultations. Within one university, a different department is a different application. Course structure follows what the university's official website publishes for the year.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Engineering
Business
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