The fourth public university in Singapore

The fourth university in Singapore will take in up to 2,500 students a year and offer three main disciplines: engineering, design and business.For a start, its undergraduates can look forward to an integrated approach to education in design and architecture, engineering and applied sciences, and business and information technology. Engineering undergraduates, for instance, will be taught design, so they can come up with products with user-friendly features. The combination will allow the varsity to develop collaboration and learning in areas such as sustainable design and development and clean technology — envisioned to be areas of strength for Singapore.

The university - to be housed in northern, eastern or north-eastern Singapore - will also focus its research on meeting the needs of the economy and helping companies solve problems. And the intake will be 50% from JC and 50% from poly.

National University of Singapore (NUS) is expected to be complemented in 2011 by a “two-track engineering programme” to train its top engineering brains — 100 students initially — to be “specialist-engineers and engineer-leaders”. The twin programme will cover “advanced multi-disciplinary scientific knowledge” as well as a curriculum emphasising “design, management and systems, and an appreciation of major technological issues facing the world”.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will establish a four-year “Premiere Engineering Programme”, distinct from its mainstream courses and leading to a direct Master degree in engineering. The university is proposing to launch the programme next year with an initial intake of 75 to 100 students, and eventually 125 students a year.

Singapore Management University (SMU) is expanding moderately from its current undergraduate intake of 1,600 students to about 2,100 undergraduates in 2015. SMU is proposing new educational tracks, for example in International Relations/Studies, Risk Analysis and Management and Maritime Business Economics.

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