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Nanyang Technological University

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Nanyang Technological University
南洋理工大学  (Chinese)
Universiti Teknologi Nanyang  (Malay)
நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம் (Tamil)
Established1981
EndowmentS$2.97 billion
ChancellorTharman Shanmugaratnam
PresidentHo Teck Hua
Students37,458
Undergraduates24,800
Postgraduates12,658
Location
Singapore
Websitewww.ntu.edu.sg

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore.[1] It is a fast-rising, research-intensive university with the biggest campus in Singapore and one of the world’s largest engineering colleges. Its 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village for the first Youth Olympics in 2010.[2]

Campuses

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Lee Wee Nam Library
Administration Building
Chinese Heritage Centre, formerly the Library and Administration Building of Nanyang University

NTU’s main Yunnan Garden campus is in the western part of Singapore. It has world-class resources for teaching and research. It also has 25 halls of residence housing more than 13,500 undergraduates and graduate students,[3] faculty housing consisting of six housing clusters located within the residential zone on campus (Nanyang Grove, Nanyang Heights, Nanyang Meadows, Nanyang Terrace, Nanyang View and Tan Lark Sye Walk[4]), as well as Olympic-training-standard sporting facilities. Under NTU's Campus Master Plan, new learning, living, research, and recreational spaces have been created to foster multidisciplinary pursuits and a collegiate culture. Two large learning hubs, The Hive and The Arc, centrepieces of flipped classroom learning at NTU, and a lifestyle hub, the North Spine Plaza, are part of this transformed landscape. The newest academic complex on campus, Gaia, is the home of the Nanyang Business School and one of Asia’s largest wooden buildings. Yunnan Garden, a 9-hectare precinct for leisure, education and heritage, offers a sprawling open space of greenery and waterscapes with fitness facilities. Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a medical campus in Novena, Singapore’s healthcare district.[5]

Colleges, schools and institutes

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NTU has 37,458 students[6][7] across the Colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, Medicine, Computing and Data Science, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Graduate College, the Interdisciplinary Graduate School, the NTU Entrepreneurship Academy, the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the National Institute of Education.[8] It also has many renowned researchers among its professors. In 2013, NTU accepted its first batch of medical undergraduates at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a collaboration with Imperial College London.[9][10][11][12]

College of Engineering Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine

College of Science

College of Business Archived 2006-10-09 at the Wayback Machine

College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine

College of Medicine

College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS)

Autonomous entities

Institutes and centres NTU has more than 70 institutes and centres. Among them are:

Partners

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NTU has programmes with institutions from around the world. Key partners include Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States; leading Asian institutions such as Peking University, the Indian Institutes of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Waseda University; and European institutions like University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, Karolinska Institutet and Technische Universität München.[13] NTU is also a partner of choice for leading companies and government agencies. Its major industrial partners include Alibaba, Hewlett-Packard, Rolls Royce, Volvo, Delta Electronics and Singtel.[14]

Rankings

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In the 21st QS World University Rankings 2025 published in June 2024, NTU was ranked 15th position in the world, up by 11 places from the previous year. In Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 published in September 2024, NTU’s overall rank had risen 2 places to 30th position in the world and 5th position in Asian order rank. In the 10th U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings 2024-25 published in June 2024, NTU’s overall rank moved up 3 places to 27th position and maintained 3rd position within Asia.[15]

NTU’s College of Engineering is one of the largest in the world, with its engineering research output ranked among the top twelve globally.[16] In the 14th QS World University Rankings by subject published in April 2024, for broad subjects, NTU’s Engineering & Technology was ranked 15th position globally and 3rd in Asian order rank.[17] In the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2025 published in February 2025, NTU’s Nanyang Business School was ranked 22nd position, up by 10 places, top ranked in Singapore. In the QS full-time MBA ranking published in September 2024, Nanyang Business School’s MBA was ranked 36th position in the world and 3rd position in Asian order rank. In the QS’s Global Executive MBA (EMBA) ranking published in July 2024, Nanyang Business School EMBA was ranked 24th position and 2nd position in Asia-Pacific order rank.[18] The S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, a graduate school of NTU, is ranked 4th in Asia and 19th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2023.[19]

Alumni

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Arts and media

  • Lim Jim Koon: Former Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Media, SPH Media
  • Joanne Peh: Actress, filmmaker and compere
  • Stefanie Sun: Singer and songwriter
  • Tan Swie Hian: Renowned local artist & sculptor; Cultural Medallion for Art 1987
  • Pei Haozheng: Origami artist[20]

Science

  • Dr Hew Choy Sin: Leading authority on Orchid Physiology
  • Dr Liew Choong-Chin: Visionary for work on cardiovascular genetics
  • Dr Ong Beng Soon: Inventor and researcher in material science and technology

References

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  1. ↑ The other one is the National University of Singapore.
  2. ↑ "Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games".
  3. ↑ "NTU at a Glance 2024".
  4. ↑ "Faculty Housing".
  5. ↑ "NTU at a Glance 2023" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "NTU's Undergraduate Population".
  7. ↑ "NTU's Graduate Student Population".
  8. ↑ "NTU's Enrolment by College".
  9. ↑ Lee Foundation makes $150 million gift to NTU's new medical school "Lee Foundation makes $150 million gift to NTU's new medical school". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2022-11-23. News release, 4 January 2011
  10. ↑ Partridge, M. R. (2013). Redefining medicine, transforming healthcare: the Lee Kong Chian school of medicine. Ann Acad Med Singapore, 42, 165-167.
  11. ↑ "FAQs about Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine".
  12. ↑ "About Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine".
  13. ↑ "NTU at a Glance 2024".
  14. ↑ "NTU's Key Industry Partnerships".
  15. ↑ NTU's Facts & Figures - Our University Rankings
  16. ↑ NTU's College of Engineering
  17. ↑ NTU's Facts & Figures - Our University Rankings
  18. ↑ "NTU's Facts & Figures - Our University Rankings".
  19. ↑ "RSIS Brochure 2023" (PDF).
  20. ↑ "UNFOLDING IDEAS". epaper.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2022-08-07.

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