Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University

File:Nanyang Technological University (logo).png
Type	National University Public, Autonomous
Established	1991 (first established as NTI in 1981)
Endowment	S$2.3 billion (US$1.8 billion)
Chancellor	President Tony Tan
President	Prof Bertil Andersson
Academic staff	1,700
Students	33,000
Undergraduates	23,000
Postgraduates	10,000
Location	Nanyang Avenue , Singapore 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E
Campus	2.0 km2 (0.77 sq mi)
Colours	University Red   School Blue
Affiliations	WA, ABET, ASAIHL, AUN, ACU, DAAD, Global Alliance of Technological Universities
Website	www.ntu.edu.sg www.facebook.com/NTUsg twitter.com/NTUsg

Nanyang Technological University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	南洋理工大學
Simplified Chinese	南洋理工大学
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nányáng Lǐgōng Dàxué
Malay name
Malay	[Universiti Teknologi Nanyang] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
Tamil name
Tamil	நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்

Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU; Malay: Universiti Teknologi Nanyang; Chinese: 南洋理工大学; pinyin: Nányáng Lǐgōng Dàxué; Tamil: நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a young, research-intensive university in Singapore with a cosmopolitan and vibrant campus life. It is one of the largest public universities in Singapore.

NTU was inaugurated in 1991, originally as an English-medium technical and teaching college occupying the grounds of the former Nanyang University, a Chinese-medium university which had been consolidated into the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1980. Over the years, NTU has grown to become a full-fledged research university, and currently provides a high-quality global education to about 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The student body includes top scholars and international olympiad medallists from the region and beyond. Hailing from more than 70 countries, the university's 4000-strong teaching and research staff also bring dynamic international perspectives and years of solid industry experience.

In recent years, various college and university rankings have placed NTU amongst the top universities in Asia and globally. In the 2014 QS World University Rankings, NTU is ranked 39th globally (6th in Asia), and is placed 1st in the world among young universities according to the 2014 QS Top 50 Under 50. NTU's College of Engineering is also ranked 9th in the world according to the latest 2014 QS World University Rankings by Faculty In the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, NTU is ranked at 61th globally (10th in Asia), NTU's business school, Nanyang Business School, was been rated by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2013 as 64th globally (4th in Asia, and top in Singapore).

Campuses

Yunnan Garden Campus

NTU Administration Building

NTU's primary campus is the 200-hectare (2.0 sq km; 0.772 sq mi) Yunnan Garden Campus which is situated adjacent to the Jurong West district of Singapore. It is the largest university campus on the island of Singapore and also houses Singapore's largest on-campus residence infrastructure including 18 halls of residence for undergraduates and two graduate halls.

The campus grounds were originally donated by the Singapore Hokkien Association to Nanyang University, a Chinese-medium university inaugurated in 1953. In 1980, the Government of Singapore merged Nanyang University with the University of Singapore to form the present-day National University of Singapore. The following year, the Nanyang University grounds were granted to the Nanyang Technological Institute, a newly formed English-medium engineering college. In 1991, NTI merged with the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore's main teaching college, to form the present-day Nanyang Technological University.

Chinese Heritage Centre, formerly the administrative building of Nanyang University

The former Nanyang University administration building was beautifully restored into the Chinese Heritage Centre and was gazetted as a national monument in 1998 - now overlooking the historical Yunnan Garden. The Nanyang University Memorial and original Nanyang University Arch were also declared national monuments of Singapore in 1998. The NTU Art & Heritage Museum is an approved public museum under the National Heritage Board’s Approved Museum Scheme; benefactors who donate artworks and artefacts to NTU enjoy double tax deductions.

In 2008, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the world’s largest foundations for entrepreneurship, selected NTU as the first Kauffman campus outside of the US.

The campus also served as the Youth Olympic Village for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

Singapore's first eco-business park, CleanTech Park, is situated next to NTU's main campus. It is proposed to be developed in three phases with a estimated completion year of 2030. The park's first multi-tenanted building, CleanTech One, was opened in October 2010. CleanTech One's tenants include those from the public sector (the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore), as well as from the private sector (DHI Water & Environment, Toray Industries, Silecs International, CIMA Nanotech, Diamond Energy, the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), Yingli Solar, and Pfizer).

NTU@one-north

Apart from the Yunnan campus, NTU also operates a second campus at the one-north business park. It comprises two wings with respective educational and alumni clubhouse facilities primarily allowing the university to enhance its delivery of continuing education programmes as well as for external collaborations.

The educational facilities include a 215-seat auditorium, a 80-seat lecture theatre, 6 nos of 45-seat lecture theatres, 21 nos of 18 to 50-seat seminar rooms, 3 nos of 18 to 27-seat computer rooms and 8 nos of 6-seat discussion rooms. Alumni clubhouse facilities include a fun pool, a Chinese restaurant, games arcade, wine bar, lounge, karaoke rooms, games rooms, gymnasium, childcare centre and SPA. The Campus is also home to NTU's Centre for Continuing Education and the Confucius Institute of NTU.

Novena Campus

A third campus, Novena Campus, is situated close to LKCMedicine’s partner teaching hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital in downtown Novena. The new 20-storey Clinical Sciences Building is expected to be completed in 2016, and is expected to facilitate the LKCmedicine students’ seamless integration into clinical settings by providing state-of-the-art future classrooms, including a learning studio, alcove clusters, clinical skills and communication centre, which boasts its own four-bed mock ward as well as several consultation rooms, so that students can practise their skills in a realistic and safe environment. The CSB will also be home to LKCMedicine researchers, with the laboratories interconnected through collaborative spaces.

Colleges, Schools and Institutes

The North Spine

NTU is organized into several colleges and schools, each corresponding to different fields of study. The various engineering schools, which were consolidated to form the College of Engineering in 2001 , together with Nanyang Business School, the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information and the National Institute of Education have been part of NTU from its inception. More recently, NTU has established additional schools for the Biological Sciences (2001), Humanities and Social Sciences (2004), Physical & Mathematical Sciences (2005), and Art, Design and Media (2009). In 2013, NTU and Imperial College London jointly established a new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which is based in the Novena campus.

NTU also hosts a number of world-class autonomous institutes: the National Institute of Education, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and two recently established research institutes, the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering. It is also home to various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) and the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight (ACI).

Nanyang Business School (College of Business)

Nanyang Business School is consistently ranked as the top business school in Singapore. It offers undergraduate degrees in Accountancy and Business (with an undergraduate population of around 3,600), as well as one of the world's top MBA programmes and other post-graduate degrees. It is the only business school in Singapore and one of only three in Asia to be awarded both the EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditations – international hallmarks of quality.

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

School of Art, Design and Media

The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences consists of three schools.

• The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a school of communication studies and offers courses in Journalism, Broadcast, Advertising, Communication Policy and Information Studies. It originally established in 1992 and it was named after Singapore's former president Wee Kim Wee in 1995.

• The School of Art, Design and Media is Singapore's first professional art school and offers an undergraduate programmes in Art, Design, and Media, as well as graduate degrees in arts research. Its building, which features a sloping grassy roof surrounding a central courtyard, is frequently featured in NTU's promotional materials.

• The School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers programmes in a wide variety of fields including Chinese, Economics, English Literature, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Public Policy and Sociology.

College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is NTU's largest subdivision. It is claimed to be the world's largest engineering college, with a student population of more than 10,000 undergraduates and 3,500 graduates. It consists of six schools focused on technology and innovation. The college offers a rich array of multidisciplinary programmes and specialisations. In addition to the 12 single degree programmes, the college also offers double degrees, double majors and integrated programmes as well as the only aerospace engineering programme in Singapore.

• School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• School of Computer Engineering
• School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• School of Materials Science and Engineering
• School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

College of Science

The College of Science in NTU is a young and dynamic institution that has grown phenomenally in its relatively short history. Today, the college consists of two schools and is home to about 150 faculty members, 340 research staff, 110 administrative and technical staff, 3700 undergraduate and 540 graduate students.

• The School of Biological Sciences was established in 2002 and offers a variety of programmes in the Biological Sciences and also a unique and innovative “East meets West” double degree programme in Biomedical Sciences and Traditional Chinese Medicine with the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in China.
• The School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences was established in 2005 and offers various programmes in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, as well as an undergraduate degree in Earth Sciences in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine was established in 2013 in collaboration with Imperial College London. Prior to its opening in 2013, the school received record donations of S$400 million, including S$150 million from the Lee Foundation. The School’s primary clinical partner is the National Healthcare Group, a leader in public healthcare recognised for the quality of its medical expertise, facilities and teaching. The School, named after local philanthropist Tan Sri Dato Lee Kong Chian, aims to be a future model for innovative medical education. Its first doctors will graduate in 2018 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), awarded jointly by NTU and Imperial College London, and will have a strong understanding of the scientific basis of medicine, along with interdisciplinary subjects including business management and technology.

Interdisciplinary Graduate School

The Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS) focuses on the key research areas within NTU's Peaks of Excellence in Sustainable Earth, New Media and Future Healthcare. Research in these areas span across different disciplines beyond the conventional school-based programmes. IGS leverages on professors from all the schools and colleges in NTU to undertake interdisciplinary research and to act as advisors for IGS PhD students. With this approach, IGS aims to train a new generation of PhD students, who are exposed to an intensive seminar culture with ample interaction opportunities.

Autonomous Institutes

NTU hosts a number of autonomous research and educational institutes.

• The National Institute of Education (NIE), occupying 16 hectares in the western part of NTU's Yunnan Garden campus, is Singapore's main teaching college and is run in close collaboration with Singapore's Ministry of Education. Full-time teachers in Singapore's public schools are typically required to complete a post-graduate diploma course at NIE, sponsored by Singapore's Ministry of Education. NIE is also internationally acclaimed and provides educational consultancy to countries from Indonesia to UAE.

• The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), named after Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, offers graduate programmes in international relations and is an autonomous graduate institution of NTU. The school has the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies—long recognised as a world authority on strategic studies and terrorism. RSIS was ranked second among university-affiliated think tanks in Asia in the 2011 Global Go-To Think Tank Rankings.

• The Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore Ministry of Education, Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore. Hosted by the NTU in partnership with NUS, SCELSE is linking new insights from the Life Sciences with expertise from the emerging technologies in Engineering and Natural Sciences to understand, harness and control microbial biofilm communities. The union of these fields has established a new discipline of Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (ELSE).

• The Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) is an autonomous research institute specializing in Earth Sciences and conducts fundamental research on earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis & climate change in and around Southeast Asia, towards safer and more sustainable societies.

Institutes and Centres

NTU has a large number of subsidiary research and educational institutes, including the following:

• Chinese Heritage Centre
• Confucius Institute
• Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management
• Energy Research Institute @ NTU
• Institute of Advanced Studies
• Institute for Media Innovation
• Institute for Sports Research
• Institute on Asian Consumer Insight
• Lien Chinese Enterprise Research Centre
• Nanyang Centre for Public Administration
• Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute
• Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine
• Nanyang Technopreneurship Center
• SAF-NTU Academy
• Singapore Centre for Chinese Language
• Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)
• Institute for Media Innovation

Living Spaces

On-campus housing is strategically located within NTU's lush Yunnan Garden Campus. Residents can ride on the free NTU shuttle bus and/or public buses within the campus to their schools, departments or centres. Nearby amenities include Gek Poh Shopping Centre, Jurong Point Shopping Centre, J-cube, Jem, Westgate and tourist attractions such as Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, Science Centre, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Discovery Centre, etc.

Undergraduate Halls

NTU has 18 Halls of Residence for undergraduates, each with a capacity of between 500 & 659 residents. All halls are co-ed by floor or wing and offer single and double occupancy rooms. Double rooms are shared by residents of the same gender.

All rooms in the halls of residence are all offered fully furnished. With the exception of Halls 1 & 2 which offer shared suite-style attached shower and toilets, all halls have gender specific communal showers and toilets. All rooms at Halls 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 are fitted with air-conditioners on a pay-for-use basis. Selected rooms at Crescent Hall & Pioneer Hall are fitted with air-conditioners, also on a pay-for-use basis. Every hall also has communal facilities like lounges, air-conditioned reading rooms, pantries, and laundry rooms with washing machines and dryers.

Graduate Halls

On-campus graduate housing is available at two on-campus graduate halls - Graduate Hall 1 and Graduate Hall 2, with a capacity of 476 and 852 respectively. All rooms are fully furnished with a bed, wardrobe, desk, fan, air-conditioning and internet connection. Communal facilities like pantries and laundry rooms with washing machines and dryers are also available to residents.

Faculty Housing

Faculty Housing consists of five clusters made up of apartment blocks, maisonettes, semi-detached houses and bungalows. There is also a wide variety of housing types consisting of 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom, 3 bedroom and duplex units. The floor areas range from 55 sqm to 200 sqm. All the faculty housing are surrounded by greenery, and each cluster has its own exclusive setting and view.

Academics

Undergraduate Education

NTU has a total undergraduate population of around 23,500. Approximately 80% of undergraduates are Singaporean citizens and permanent residents. The remaining 20% of international students are mostly from the ASEAN nations, China, and India.

When applying for admission to NTU, applicants are required to specify one (or more) of NTU's schools in which to study. Applicants are offered admission by the individual schools, which have varying admission criteria (after admission, it is possible to appeal for a transfer between schools). Applicants from Singapore must have graduated from a junior college or polytechnic. International students are required to have completed K-12 education; furthermore, as English is the medium of instruction at NTU, students from non-English speaking countries may be required to have an English language proficiency certificate such as IELTS or TOEFL.

Undergraduate tuition is heavy subsidized by the Government of Singapore. Singaporean citizens pay around 27 percent of the base tuition cost. A reduced subsidy is optionally available to Singaporean permanent residents and international students, but with a stipulation: the recipients are contractually required to work for a Singapore-based company for three years after graduation.

NTU also offers a variety of undergraduate scholarships to new as well as current students pursuing their full-time undergraduate studies in the university. Scholarships are generally awarded to students based on academic merit and good co-curricular records.

Post-graduate Education

NTU has approximately 10,000 graduate students pursuing Master's degrees, doctorates, and other post-graduate degrees. The graduate student population is largely international.

The admission requirements for post-graduate studies vary with the school and the course of study. Several programmes require GRE or GMAT scores; typical minimum scores are 320 (GRE verbal/quantitative), 3.5 (GRE analytical), and 600 (GMAT), but these can vary widely between different schools. Applicants from non-English speaking countries are typically required to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores; typical minimum scores are 6.0 (IETL) and 90 (Internet-based TOEFL).

A range of post-graduate scholarships is also available to students pursuing their full-time post-graduate studies at NTU.

Clubs & Communities

NTU provides rich opportunities for groups and communities to form and grow, as well as supports the forming and organisation of student activities to provide a platform to share knowledge and experiences.

Currently, there are more than 100 student organizations in NTU that fall into these categories:

• Students' Union and its Constituent Clubs
• Clubs & Societies
• Junior Common Room Committees

Performance

Currently, NTU is ranked 39th globally (6th in Asia) by the 2014 QS World University Rankings, placing it in the top 1% of universities globally. The 2014 QS Asian University Rankings which uses a different set of performance criteria places NTU 7th in Asia. NTU is also ranked 1st in the world among young elite universities according to the 2014 QS Top 50 Under 50. In 2011, NTU became the first university in Asia to receive the maximum five stars under the QS Stars evaluation system. Other international universities with a five-star rating include the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2014, NTU's Engineering and Technology is ranked by QS World University Rankings as 9th in the world (2nd in Asia). It is the 5th most cited in the world while its research output is ranked among the top three universities globally in Engineering by Essential Science Indicators of Thomson Reuters. QS World University Rankings 2014 rated NTU's Social Sciences as 33rd worldwide (8th in Asia) and NTU's Natural Sciences was placed 59th in the world (13th in Asia); Arts & Humanities jumped 31 places to rank 86th (14th in Asia) and Life Sciences & Medicine is ranked 208th (24th in Asia). According to the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, In the 4th QS World University Rankings (WUR) by specific subjects published in February 2014, NTU's Engineering subjects are ranked among the top 25 worldwide. These include Material Sciences which is ranked 8th in the world (2nd in Asia), Electrical Engineering in 10th place (2nd in Asia), Mechanical Engineering in 12th position (3rd in Asia), Civil Engineering in 21st position (8th in Asia), Computer Science in 21st position (6th in Asia), and Chemical Engineering in 25th position(7th in Asia). QS World University Rankings by Faculty 2014 in Social Sciences and Management - covering Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Business School and School of Humanities and Social Sciences - ranked NTU 33rd in the world QS World University Rankings 2014 in the subject of Communication and Media Studies ranked NTU (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information) 6th in the world (1st in Asia); in the subject of Education, NTU (National Institute of Education) is ranked 14th globally (1st in Asia).

In 2014, NTU rose to 61th position worldwide (10th in Asia) in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings with strong scores in all the categories measured, particularly for research, citations and industry income and innovation, scoring full marks and coming in global No.1 in the indicator 'Industry Income - innovation' for the second year running. As a result, NTU has rocketed a total of 108 places in the past three years in the THE rankings. NTU was also placed 5th among the global top 100 universities under the age of 50 in 2014.Times Higher Education World University Rankings place NTU in the 29th position (6th in Asia) according to its 2014–2015 Engineering and Technology subject ranking.

Separately, NTU is ranked in the top 151st to 200th bracket of global universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. As of November 2013, Microsoft Academic Search website ranks NTU's overall engineering, according to the number publications and H-Index criteria, as the world's 10th since the last 5 years.

NTU's Nanyang Business School's MBA is ranked 32nd in the world (and 6th in Asia) by the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2013 and 64th globally (4th in Asia) by The Economist Intelligence Unit Full-time MBA Rankings 2013. For the 10th straight year, Nanyang Business School has been ranked the best in Singapore by The Economist. Also, Nanyang Business School is placed 13th worldwide in the Financial Times’ (FT) rankings of the world’s top 100 Executive MBA (EMBA) programmes. Nanyang Business School's accounting research is rated 5th in the world and remained No. 1 in Asia by the Brigham Young University (BYU) Accounting Research Rankings released in April 2013. Professor Tan Hun Tong retained his standing as the world's top accounting researcher for the third year running while Professor Clive Lennox is ranked 7th in the world and 2nd in Asia. Professor Vijay Sethi is voted the world's best business professor as the sole recipient of the prestigious Business Professor of the Year award from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in March 2013. QS World University Rankings in the subject of Accounting and Finance ranked NTU 29th in the world and 5th in Asia.

The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies is ranked second among university-affiliated think-tanks in Asia and 22nd globally.

NTU has many multi-national programmes and initiatives with institutions worldwide. Some examples of key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University; world-class universities in Asia such as Beijing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda, IIT of India; European universities like Cambridge University, Imperial College London, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Karolinska Institutet, University of Mannheim, Heidelberg University and Technische Universität München; and Israeli Universities like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

NTU is also the first Kauffman Campus outside the United States, spearheading entrepreneurship in Asia.

Internet learning on campus

The University is connected to the high speed Internet. All the facilities and resources available over the Internet are accessible by anyone on the campus network. The campus network, which links together all computing systems on the campus, is managed by the University's Centre for IT Services (CITS).

To supplement the fixed-line campus network, NTU implemented a campus-wide wireless network in 2000. This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabits per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection. However services like torrents are still blocked.

NTU provides e-learning services via edveNTUre, which is based on BlackBoard technology, provides the framework and eco-system for learning and teaching. Besides providing a repository of lecture recordings, lecture notes, it also facilitates learning activities for collaboration, discussion, assessment and project work. During term time, the usage typically by faculty and students exceeds nine-million page views weekly (Jan 2010).

Degrees awarded by NTU

Bachelor degrees:

• Bachelor of Accountancy
• Bachelor of Business
• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
• Bachelor of Communication Studies

Higher degrees:

• Master of Business
• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Science
• Master of Arts
• Master of Education
• Master in Educational Administration
• Master of Engineering
• Master of Public Administration
• Master of Applied Science
• Master of Communication Studies
• Master of Mass Communication
• Master of Management in Hospitality
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Doctor in Education

Maritime Degrees:

• BSc in Maritime Studies
• BSc in Maritime Studies with Business Major
• MSc in Maritime Studies

University Publications

NTU produces a number of reports, newsletters and publications by departments, schools and student bodies.

The Tribune is the official student-run publication of the NTU Students' Union. It is a monthly newspaper which covers diverse topics such as campus news and events, sports, business, lifestyle, opinions etc.

The Nanyang Chronicle is another monthly newspaper. It is run by the students and staff of Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.

The HEY! magazine was launched in 2011 by the NTU Corporate Communications Office. It is NTU’s new lifestyle magazine for students and frequently covers NTU students' success stories.

Pushing Frontiers is a bi-annual magazine showcasing research and innovation at NTU published by the NTU Corporate Communications Office.

Campus Buzz is a weekly email newsletter on student events. The contents of the e-newsletter are generated automatically from NTU online event calendar on a weekly basis. Student clubs representatives can self-service to put up events and activities details in the NTU online event calendar.

NTU Link is a quarterly magazine that feature alumni events, interviews with personalities, and updates. It is published by the Alumni Affairs Office and is provided free to all alumni via post.

ArtJam is another major publication run by the NTU Cultural Activities Club(CAC). It covers a large range of events held by NTUCAC and events all round Singapore. ArtJam is distributed on campus as well as many local iconic areas.

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:Nanyang Technological University alumni

Politics

People's Action Party

• Ang Mong Seng – former MP
• Inderjit Singh – MP
• Intan Azura binte Mokhtar – MP, Assistant Professor at National Institute of Education
• Lee Bee Wah – MP
• Low Yen Ling – MP and Parliamentary Secretary
• Masagos Zulkifli - MP and Senior Minister of State
• Sim Ann – MP and Minister of State
• Teo Ser Luck – MP, Mayor and Minister of State
• Yu-Foo Yee Shoon – former MP and Minister of State
• Zaqy bin Mohamad – MP

Workers Party of Singapore

• Gerald Giam Yean Song - NCMP
• Low Thia Khiang – MP, Secretary-General of the Workers Party of Singapore
• Yee Jenn Jong – NCMP

Singapore Democratic Party

• Cheo Chai Chen – former MP, now member of the National Solidarity Party

National Solidarity Party

• Sebastian Teo Kway Huang – President of the National Solidarity Party

International Politics

• Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono – former Indonesian MP, Secretary General of Democratic Party (Indonesia), son of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
• Wee Ka Siong - Deputy President of the Malaysian Chinese Association and MP in the Dewan Rakyat

Public Service & Civil Society

• Azmoon Ahmad – Chairman, Association of Muslim Professionals
• Major Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono - Tentara Nasional Indonesia, Chief of Operations in Kostrad, son of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
• Ng Gek Boo – Assistant Director-General of International Labour Organisation
• Ng Joo Hee – Commissioner of Police (Singapore)

Business and Technology

• Shafie Shamsuddin – Managing Director, Carrefour Indonesia
• Chade-Meng Tan – Jolly Good Fellow, Google Inc
• Darren Tan Siew Peng – Chief Financial Officer Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
• Chen Ou – Entrepreneur

Academia and Research

• Chee Kheng Hoy – World expert on rubber tree research
• Cheryl Marie Cordeiro – International Business and Relations Researcher in the University of Gothenburg and Miss Singapore Universe 1999
• Ng Yew Kwang – Albert Winsemius Professor of Economics in NTU
• Lee Hui Mien – Creater of the world's first spectacle frame made entirely of recycables

Arts and Humanities

• Zihan Loo – film director, actor, dancer
• Yang Quee Yee – Malay and Chinese Linguist
• Yap Koon Chan – author and literary activist

Media and Entertainment

• Vincy Chan – Cantopop singer
• Lee Teng – television host
• Ng Hui – actress
• Rui En – actress
• Joanne Peh – actress
• Michelle Saram – actress
• Vanessa Vanderstraaten – actress
• Diana Ser – journalist, former Channel News Asia news presenter, actress, host
• Stefanie Sun – singer
• Alan Tern – actor
• Jerry Yeo – actor
• Zhu Zhiqiang – graphic designer, animator

Sports

• Dipna Lim Prasad – National Hurdler
• C Kunalan - Former National Sportsman, and Educator at the National Institute of Education
• Calvin Kang Li Loong - National Sprinter

Notable Faculty

Medicine, Science and Engineering

• Bertil Andersson – Biochemistry
• Freddy Boey – Materials Engineering
• Balazs Gulyas - Neuroscience
• Philip Ingham - Zebrafish models for Human diseases
• Christopher G. Newhall – Volcanologist, co-creator of the Volcanic explosivity index
• Daniela Rhodes – Structural and Molecular Biology
• Kerry Sieh – Geology and Seismology
• Paul Tapponnier – Neotectonics
• Rudolph A. Marcus – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1992

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Grace Chia – Literature
• Lim Chong Yah – Economics, first Chairman of National Wages Council

Business and Technology

• Tan Hun Tong – World's top experimental accounting researcher
• Vijay Sethi – First Economist Intelligence Unit Business Professor of the Year

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Farish A. Noor – Political Scientist and Historian

Controversies

Renaming Controversy

Although NTU occupies the grounds of the former Nanyang University (NU), and has a similar name, it is not a direct continuation of that institution. In 1980, the Government of Singapore forcibly merged Nanyang University with the University of Singapore to form the present-day National University of Singapore (NUS). This was a source of significant discontent amongst NU students and alumni, because NU had been a Chinese-medium university, whereas the newly merged NUS was (and is) an English-medium university.

As NTU subsequently grew into a full university, various efforts were made to have it claim the Nanyang University mantle. In 1996, the alumni rolls of Nanyang University were transferred from NUS to NTU. In 1998, the prominent local calligrapher and poet Pan Shou, who had been the first vice-chancellor of Nanyang University, called for NTU to be renamed Nanyang University, as a way to “quieten the hearts of many” NU alumni. In 2003, this idea received further support from NTU president Su Guaning, during an interview with the Chinese-language paper Lianhe Zaobao. One reason oferred for the renaming was that, by the mid-2000s, NTU no longer had a narrow focus on technical subjects, but had become a full university including studies in the humanities.

However, the NTU administration's renaming plans soon encountered significant push-back. One NU alumni, Zhu Yong-an, circulated the results of a straw poll in which NU alumni came out strongly against the idea; respondents complained that NTU could not provide "continuity" for the "murdered" Nanyang University. Finally, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong weighed in on the affair, the administration dropped the idea quietly in 2006 and has not raised it since.

Tenural Denial to Cherian George

In 2013, there was a debate over academic freedom in Singapore when Associate Professor Cherian George, an outspoken academic at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communications who had publicly criticized Singapore's system of media control and its ruling People’s Action Party. did not get tenured. Although George had been recommended for tenure by the Wee Kim Wee School, his application was turned down by a university-level committee which included representatives from the Government of Singapore. One of the reviewers for the tenure case, Cardiff University's professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, expressed outrage at NTU's decision, and George's thesis advisor, Stanford University's Theodore Glasser, raised doubts about "NTU's reputation as a university of international standing" and "NTU's commitment to academic freedom". Despite a petition against the tenure decision by students at the Wee Kim Wee School, George's appeal against the tenure decision was subsequently rejected by the university.

See also

• National University of Singapore
• Singapore Institute of Technology
• Singapore Management University
• Singapore University of Technology and Design
• SIM University
• List of universities and colleges in Singapore
• Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

External links

• Official website
• Graduate Students Club
• NTU Cultural Activities Club website
• THE Rankings – Nanyang Technological University(2008)
• NTU 50th anniversary celebrations site
• Nanyang Business School (NBS)
• National Institute of Education (NIE)
• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
• Article about Nanyang Technological University
• Nanyang Technological University student reviews
• Scholarship Information of Nanyang Technological University
• Various degrees awarded by NTU and corresponding academic gowns
• Institute for Media Innovation