National University Of singapore
National University Of Singapore
NUS is consistently ranked as one of Asia's top universities by both UK ranking systems, the World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to the latest 2015 World University Rankings, NUS is ranked 12th in the world and retained its position as 1st in Asia.[3] NUS also fared well in the 2015- Higher Education World University Rankings, coming in 26th in the world and 1st in Asia.[4] Alternatively, the system published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that measures universities academic achievements and research performance consistently places NUS in the range of 100–150 worldwide and 1st in Singapore. Additionally, 2014's U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings[5] places NUS at 55th in the world.NUS's main campus is located in south-west Singapore adjacent to Kent Ridge, with an area of 150 hectares (0.58 sq mi).[6] The campus houses the Faculty of Law, Yew School of Public Policy and research institutes, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is located at the campus.Two decades later, Raffles College was merged with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to form the University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two institutions were merged to provide for the higher education needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.The growth of UM was very rapid during the first decade of its establishment and resulted in the setting up of two autonomous divisions in 1959, one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala In 1960, the governments of then Federation of Malaya and Singapore indicated their desire to change the status of the divisions into that of a national university.[7]Legislation was passed in 1961 establishing the former Kuala division as the University of Malaya while the Singapore division was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching (tutorials) and the American system (course credits). Students may transfer between courses within their first two semesters, in cross-faculty modules or take up electives from different faculties (compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary initiatives study include double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.NUS has 16 faculties and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Currently, it has seven overseas colleges at major entrepreneurial hubs in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US).[11962.NUS began its entrepreneurial education in the with the setting up of the for Management of Innovation and in 1988. In 2001, was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship , and became a division of NUS Enterprise is currently headed by Professor Wong 10]and its activities are organised into 4 areas, including a business incubator, experiential education, entrepreneurship development, and entrepreneurship research.Jointly organised by NUS Enterprise and National University of Singapore Society the Innovation and Enterprise Award consists of two portions – the NUS Outstanding Innovator Award and Promising NUS Start-Up Award. Both awards aim to individuals and companies within the NUS community who have achieved significant accomplishments in entrepreneurship and innovation, or who have contributed to the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Singapore in recent years. The 2014 winner of the 100.000 award includes the NUS spin-off company .[25][26] is the entrepreneurship division of the Nanotechnology Institute at the National University of Singapore. primary role is to work with faculty, staff and students on obtaining financial support for technology commercialization. This work typically takes the form of a consulting relationship in which gets deeply involved in the writing of grant proposals and business plans and actively connects technology commercialization projects to grant organizations such as the SMART Innovation , the National Research Foundation, SPRING Singapore, and to private angel and venture capital investors.[27]The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine was first established as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905. The School comprises departments such as the Alice Lee for Nursing Studies, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Diagnostic Radiology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics & , Ophthalmology, Surgery, , Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychological Medicine, and Surgery. The School uses he British undergraduate medical system, offering a full-time undergraduate leading to the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. For Nursing, the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) (conducted by the Alice Lee for Nursing Studies) is offered. The department also offers post graduate Master of Nursing, Master of Science (Nursing) and Doctor of Philosophy The NUS Industry Liaison Office manages the University’s technology transfer and promotes research collaborations with industry and partners. manages NUS intellectual property, its intellectual assets and facilitates the spinning off of technologies into start-up companies. Ms Irene[51] is the Director of .Some recent industry partnerships enabled by include a research agreement with Agilent,[52] a licensing agreement with Cambridge Display Technology[52] (a Chemical Group company), and a partnership with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics.[53] NUS spin-off companies supported by,[54] Gatekeeper Laboratories,[55] ,[57] and Technologies.[58] has set up the Research to Market portal,[59] to showcase NUS technologies and engage with industry. Technology sectors include the life sciences, interactive digital media, physical sciences and multi-disciplinary technologies. Another activity organised by is the Technology Forum[60, an annual event that brings together industry, academia, researchers, investors and entrepreneurs to examine trends and issues involved in technology. In 2012, has collaborated with the Association of University Technology Managers concurrently with Asia.[61] technology specific events, looking to facilitate technology in industry sectors. [62] is an event that focuses on technologies in the field of augmented reality, media search, image processing, gaming, language processing, web analysis and video processing.NUS also has an external partnership with The Intern Group enabling students to complete an internship abroad.[63]