Choose Study : NTU Education Can Provide Our Graduates With a Competitive Edge

 

Nanyang Business School

Consistently ranked among the world’s premier business schools, Nanyang Business School 

 nurtures leaders from around the world by employing innovative pedagogy that melds rigorous academic theory with real-world business practice. Drawing on NTU’s academic and research strengths, NBS provides enriching opportunities for interdisciplinary study. The school offers one of the world’s top 50 MBA programmes and three-year direct Honours degree programmes in Accountancy and Business. NBS is the first business school in Singapore, and the third in Asia, to be accredited by both the European Quality Improvement System and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

College of Engineering

A global leader in engineering education and research, NTU's College of Engineering 

comprises six schools focused on technology and innovation. The college offers a rich array of interdisciplinary programmes as well as double degrees, double majors and integrated programmes. Internationally recognised for its strengths in engineering and technology, the college seeks to engineer real-world innovations and future-ready solutions that impact the community, and the world at large.

College of Science

Education and research in the College of Science spans the domains of biology, chemistry, earth & environmental sciences, mathematics, and physics. A rigorous curriculum led by talented faculty addresses some of the greatest scientific challenges facing the world today, ranging from healthcare and environmental sustainability to data security. Unique interdisciplinary programmes such as the Bachelor of Science in Economics and Data Sciences, and Double Major Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematical Sciences leverage NTU’s strengths in physics, mathematics, engineering and social sciences to make new discoveries for the benefit of humanity. In addition, the Asian School of Environment integrates multiple disciplines including human ecology, humanities, social sciences and data science to tackle issues of vital importance for safe and sustainable societies.

Building a Culture of Learning

We are dedicated to creating knowledge to meet the global challenges of the 21st century and nurturing innovative and socially responsible leaders to shape the future of Singapore, Asia and beyond. Our university focuses on students’ learning experiences and providing them with opportunities to develop skills that will enable them to face the future challenges with optimism and confidence.

Holistic Education

The NTU Education aims to inculcate in all NTU graduates the desired attributes of Cognitive Agility, Character and Competence or the 3 'C's. This entails having a flexible interdisciplinary curriculum design that encourages student-driven learning, and an inter-linked curriculum and co-curriculum programmes that are experiential and collaborative. The NTU Education is defined by two interrelated pillars – interdisciplinary learning, and experiential & collaborative learning.

Interdisciplinary Learning

Aiming to heighten students’ awareness on the inter-connectedness of world’s complexed challenges that demand interdisciplinary approaches to access the right resources for designing sustainable solutions.

Development of transferable skills in NTU Education can provide our graduates with a competitive edge in gaining potential employment opportunities as they manoeuvre through job changes.

Experiential learning components through collaborative learning includes professional internships, overseas programmes, projects and fieldwork. Other experiential learning efforts made to forge synergies between research, innovation and entrepreneurship, include NTU Makers' labs, making and tinkering courses, and an entrepreneurship minor programme.

• Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus
• Entrepreneurship
• Internship
• Work and Study
• Design and Systems Thinking

Our dedicated Co-Curriculum offers a wide range of well-designed learning programmes with outcome-based learning objectives, facilitated by faculty and staff, often in collaboration with students. Our Co-Curriculum platform consists of the following five components:

• Residential Education
• Community Engagement
• Student Leadership Development
• DEEP Learning
• Student Life Activities

Experiential and Collaborative Learning

Inspiring students to develop an innate desire to explore and create, and an astute attitude towards risk taking.

Adopting an experiential and collaborative learning approach that closely mirrors the future of work and academia, students would gain domain knowledge, advance their capacities in innovation, collaboration, emotional intelligence, ethical sensitivity, and embrace lifelong learning.

Our interdisciplinary pillar consists of:

• New interdisciplinary collaborative core courses mandatory in undergraduate programmes
• Postgraduate Transferable Skills Series
• New interdisciplinary programmes
• Enhanced interdisciplinary research