Universities/Singapore/National University of Singapore

新加坡国立大学

National University of Singapore

Singapore's large comprehensive university. Taught in English, with the main campus at Kent Ridge; study and internships are often in the same city.

  • Singapore · Singapore

    Country / city

  • Public comprehensive research university

    Type

  • Origins traceable to 1905

    Founded

  • 10

    QS World University Rankings 2027

ITHE UNIVERSITY

About the university

Singapore's large comprehensive university. Taught in English, with the main campus at Kent Ridge; study and internships are often in the same city.

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NUS traces its origins to the Straits Settlements medical school of 1905, and today is Singapore's large comprehensive research university. Undergraduate teaching is mainly in English. The main campus is at Kent Ridge, and Bukit Timah, Outram and other campuses carry some faculties. Engineering, computing, science, business, law and medicine each have their own faculty, and the application is not one form.

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Electrical engineering sits in the College of Design and Engineering, a four-year Bachelor of Engineering, with circuits, signals and electromagnetics at the core and matching prerequisites required. In the School of Computing, computer science, information security and business analytics are different programmes. Terms are short and courses dense, and GPA counts from the first semester. Switching into computing or business must be considered separately under prerequisites and faculty rules; the university's name cannot fill the gap.

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The radius of the Singapore route is clear: study, internship and employment often revolve in the same city. The cost is a high density of competition. For those whose science and engineering route is clear and who care more about an engineering foundation and a large campus, NTU belongs on the same comparison table.

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Who should go, and who should look elsewhere

Suits this university

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Can take short terms

Terms are short and courses dense. Managing your time and GPA matters more than 'wanting to go to Singapore'.
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Subject prerequisites match

The mathematics, physics and programming requirements for engineering and computing are set out in the admissions guidance. If you can treat the city as a campus, internships and projects are often right there in the city.

Look elsewhere

If the science and engineering route is clear, and you care more about an engineering foundation and the daily life of a large campus

NTU belongs on the same comparison table.

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IIIDIRECTIONS

Common 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.

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Electrical Engineering

A four-year Bachelor of Engineering in the College of Design and Engineering (BEng Electrical Engineering and related programmes, with names following the college page for the year). Circuits, signals, electromagnetics and devices are the core, and mathematics and physics prerequisites must be checked. It is not the same faculty timetable as computing or business analytics. There are college rules for changing majors, and you cannot assume a free switch after entry.
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Computing

Under the School of Computing, programmes such as computer science, information security and business analytics admit separately. Those applying for a master's whose first degree is not in computer science must first look at prerequisites and the amount of programming. A switch into computing cannot rely on the university's name to fill the gap.
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Science and Business

The Faculty of Science and the Business School are two separate applications. Science looks at science prerequisites; business looks at grades, quantitative courses and activities. Terms are short, and GPA must be managed from entry. The start window, language and visa should be planned together with the timetable.
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