NUS AT A GLANCE 2013 I WE ARE OUR HISTORY 1905 The Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School 1949 is founded at Outram, where Raffles College merges with Singapore General Hospital the King Edward VII College of stands today. Medicine to form the University of Malaya, the very first university for 1913 the peoples of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. The School is renamed the King Edward VII Medical School, making it the first institution of 1955 higher learning in Singapore. Nanyang University, a privately- funded Chinese 1921 university, opens its doors. The Medical School becomes the King Edward VII College 1962 of Medicine. The Singapore campus of the University of Malaya becomes an 1928 autonomous institution known as the University of Singapore. Raffles College is established at Bukit Timah to provide tertiary education in the arts and sciences. 1980 The National University of Singapore is established with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University. II Who WE Are What WE DO Why IT Matters A little over a century ago, the National University of Singapore (NUS) was born in a bustling metropolis at the crossroads of Asia. From modest beginnings as a medical college with 23 students, the University now spans three campuses and enrols over 37,000 students in many critical fields of study and has partnerships around the world. Our strategic location in the heart of Asia has shaped NUS’ growth over the last 100 years, and no doubt always will. Today’s NUS is a thought leader with a distinctive Asian perspective. We are transforming the future through education, research and service. 1 WE Educate the NExT Generation What should the world expect of our graduates? Expansive, collaborative and agile thinkers. Multifaceted and entrepreneurial doers. Through a transformative Today’s NUS education offers a education anchored in world- breadth of disciplines, double class expertise with an Asian degree and joint degree perspective, our programmes programmes, as well as empower graduates to think in entrepreneurial opportunities at new ways across disciplines. Never home and around the world. We before has there been as much want every graduate to possess the opportunity for students to pursue intellectual capacity and real-world their passions and aspirations. NUS experience to meet and adapt to is a place that fuels each student’s the professional challenges they drive to add value to Singapore and will face throughout their lives. the world. We want to prepare graduates for success in careers that are only now being imagined. 2 The student exchange, double learning communities with small degree and joint degree personalised classes. This collegial programmes allow our students to environment encourages students attend some of the world’s best and professors to interact universities. Flexible educational outside the classroom and pathways, often incorporating promotes a richer, more holistic entrepreneurship training, inject a NUS experience. crucial global dimension into their education. The prestigious NUS Overseas Colleges programme, which immerses students in entrepreneurial hubs throughout Faculties & Schools the world, is one such example. • Faculty of Arts and New pedagogies are just as Social Sciences vital to educating tomorrow’s • NUS Business School citizen- leaders. Yale-NUS • School of Computing College (Yale-NUS) is one of the University’s newest initiatives, • Faculty of Dentistry offering a unique pedagogy • School of Design and programme combining and Environment the vast resources of both Yale • Faculty of Engineering University and NUS. Rather than a translation of the American liberal • Faculty of Law arts curriculum, the Yale-NUS • Yong Loo Lin School curriculum designed specifically for of Medicine the College maximises its location • Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Asia and redefines a liberal arts of Music and science education for the 21st century. Yale-NUS’ inaugural • Saw Swee Hock School students begin their semester in of Public Health July 2013. • Faculty of Science • University Scholars Epitomising the NUS vision of a Programme vibrant campus ecosystem is our • latest educational hub – University Yale-NUS College Town (UTown). UTown integrates • NUS Graduate spaces for learning, living, arts and School for Integrative culture, sports and social activities, Sciences and Engineering blurring the line between learning • Lee Kuan Yew School and interaction within and beyond of Public Policy the classroom. A highlight of • Duke-NUS Graduate Medical UTown is its residential colleges – a School Singapore first for Singapore – designed as 3 WE Focus on IMpact From ageing and translational medicine to finance and quantum technologies to the environment and urbanisation, NUS researchers hunt for the discoveries and solutions to advance life in Asia and the world. Our strategy targets high-level To better respond to the research over a broad base from interconnected challenges facing which several peaks of excellence Asia and the rest of the world, naturally arise. We create synergies we have combined the strengths across boundaries. We collaborate of our Faculties, Schools, and with government, industry and Research Institutes and Centres leading academic partners to ensure to build five integrative research that NUS research consistently clusters: Finance and Risk addresses real-world issues. Management, Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Ageing, Integrative Sustainability Solutions, and Asian Studies. 4 4 Research Centres • Risk Management Institute of Excellence • Singapore Institute for • Cancer Science Institute Neurotechnology of Singapore • Singapore Synchrotron • Centre for Quantum Light Source Technologies • Solar Energy Research Institute • Mechanobiology of Singapore Institute Singapore • Temasek Laboratories • Singapore Centre on • The Logistics Institute – Environmental Life Sciences Asia Pacific Engineering (jointly with • Tropical Marine Science Institute Nanyang Technological University) Research Activities 23 University-Level Research Institutes/Centres • Asia Research Institute • Centre for International Law 2,741 NEW AND ExISTING • Centre for Maritime Studies pROJECTS UNDERWAY1 • Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing • East Asian Institute • Energy Studies Institute 383 • Institute for Mathematical patent 1 Sciences Applications filed • Institute of Real Estate Studies • Institute of South Asian Studies • Interactive and Digital 228 Media Institute research awards • Life Sciences Institute attained1 • Middle East Institute • NUS Environmental Research Institute 7,100 • NUS Global Asia Institute pApers pUblished2 • NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative 1Financial Year 2011 2Calendar Year 2012 • NUS Research Institute (Suzhou) *Figures correct as at 25 April 2013 5 WE Nurture Visionaries NUS aspires to be a bold and dynamic community, with a “no walls” culture and a spirit of enterprise. How do you teach innovation? Experiential Education You give individuals opportunity to Students pursue specialised create value. programmes as they study and A central part of the NUS mission work in entrepreneurial/academic is transformative education that hubs throughout the world. nurtures thinking individuals who are alive to opportunities to make a NUS Overseas Colleges difference and add value to society. • Silicon Valley, United States • Philadelphia, United States Specifically, we pave the way for • Shanghai, China our students to innovate through four platforms: • Stockholm, Sweden • India • Beijing, China • Israel iLEAD (innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development) Programme 6 Entrepreneurship Support formed between industry and our academic community. More At NUS, aspiring entrepreneurs find than 70% of the participants are a variety of assistance schemes to industry partners from local SMEs. help launch their ventures. • NUS Enterprise Incubators Entrepreneurship/ Innovation Research and • Entrepreneurial seminars Thought Leadership for faculty, student and alumni entrepreneurs Timely research on key issues in • Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) entrepreneurship and innovation Business Plan Competition underwrite continued growth in entrepreneurship. • Mentoring, funding support, networking, investor-matching, • Academic entrepreneurship and legal and accounting clinics how this can further contribute • Entrepreneurship training to the economy workshops and practicums • Innovation and Intellectual • Entrepreneurial awards Property creation in the Asia Pacific Industry Engagement • Trends, challenges, processes and Partnerships and success factors of We collaborate with industry to start- up enterprises help inventions and discoveries arising from NUS research make the leap from the lab to the marketplace. Enterprise Thrust • Intellectual Property management and >2,000 >3,000 commercialisation, including invention Patents the management of National disclosures filed Research Foundation’s Proof- of-Concept grant for the NUS > > community, to accelerate 250 50% technology Agreements the development of NUS licenses with industry technologies to market Executed average of last tHREE years • Collaborations with (2010–2012) industry partners and key government agencies to spin >100 >1,400 off technologies/research from nus noc and NUS into start-up companies enterprise iLEAD portfolio alumni Through these engagement efforts companies and initiatives, greater connectivity *Cumulative figures as at 31 December 2012 and