Organization:List of universities in Singapore

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This is a list of universities in Singapore.

Local universities

Autonomous universities

There are six autonomous universities (AUs) in Singapore.

University		Student population	Type	Year founded	University rankings
Full name	Abbrev.				QS	THE	ARWU
National University of Singapore	NUS	42,369	comprehensive research intensive university	1905 (as King Edward VII College of Medicine)	8	19	71
Nanyang Technological University	NTU	32,015	comprehensive research intensive university	1981 (as Nanyang Technological Institute)	26	32	93
Singapore Management University	SMU	8,656	specialised research intensive university	2000
Singapore University of Technology and Design	SUTD	13,000++	specialised research intensive university	2009
Singapore Institute of Technology	SIT	8,500++	specialised university of applied learning	2009
Singapore University of Social Sciences	SUSS	17,581	specialised university of applied and lifelong learning	2005 (as SIM University)

Publicly-funded private university: University of the Arts Singapore

In March 2021, Minister for Education Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore’s first arts university will be established in an alliance between the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts, in a system akin to the University of the Arts, London. The formation of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) will see both colleges under the umbrella university be given degree-awarding powers independent of their current foreign partners, where the current long-distance degrees are issued through foreign universities. Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs) enrolled in the approved degree programmes at the university of the arts will pay subsidised fees, comparable to those at autonomous universities here.

The seventh local university of Singapore will be the only publicly-funded private university other than the now defunct and restructured UniSIM in Singapore, and also the only university of the arts with its own degree-conferring power in Singapore slated to open in 2024.

Constituent colleges:

• Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
• LASALLE College of the Arts

Defunct universities

• Nanyang University (Merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore in 1980.)
• SIM University (Restructured into the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and brought under the ambit of the Ministry of Education in 2017.)

Private education institutions

Private education institutions (PEIs) are regulated by the Committee for Private Education (CPE).

Local campuses of foreign universities

The following private education institutions are local branches of foreign universities. Listed alphabetically in the order of country of their origin.

Origin country	University	Comments
Australia	Curtin Singapore	Tertiary education in Australia
Australia	James Cook University Singapore	Tertiary education in Australia
France	École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC)	Education in France
France	INSEAD	Education in France
France	Sorbonne-Assas International Law School	Education in France
India	S P Jain School of Global Management	Higher education in India
Germany	German Institute of Science and Technology - TUM Asia	Education in Germany
Switzerland	École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)	Education in Switzerland
USA	DigiPen Institute of Technology	Higher education in the United States

External degree programmes

The following private education institutions offer external degree programmes (EDPs) with undergraduate or graduate degrees conferred by the institutions' partner universities.

Institution	Partner universities
Amity Global Institute	University of London; University of Northampton; Teesside University
Auston Institute of Management	De Montfort University; University of the West of England
BAC College (Singapore)	University of London International Programmes
Beacon International College	Pearson Education; Cardiff Metropolitan University
DIMENSIONS International College	University of Hertfordshire; Cardiff Metropolitan University; Cambridge Assessment International Education; Singapore Workforce Development Agency
East Asia Institute of Management (EASB)	Edinburgh Business School; Queen Margaret University; Sheffield Hallam University; Cardiff Metropolitan University; Aston University
ERC Institute	University of Wolverhampton; University of Greenwich; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Kaplan Higher Education Academy	Murdoch University; Griffith University; Monash University; Swinburne University of Technology; Northumbria University; Royal Holloway, University of London; University College Dublin; University of Portsmouth; University of Essex; RMIT University; Birmingham City University
London School of Business and Finance	University of Greenwich; Concordia University Chicago; Xiamen University
Management Development Institute of Singapore	Grenoble Graduate School of Business; Northumbria University; Oklahoma City University; University of Sunderland; Bangor University; Nottingham Trent University; Southern Cross University; Leeds Beckett University; Teesside University; Edinburgh Napier University; University of Portsmouth
Nanyang Institute of Management	Leeds Beckett University; University of the West of Scotland; York St John University
PSB Academy	Edinburgh Napier University; Coventry University; Glasgow Caledonian University; Cambridge Assessment International Education; La Trobe University; University of Newcastle, Australia; University of Nottingham; University of Hull; University of Wollongong
Raffles College of Higher Education	Coventry University; University of Chester
SDH Institute
Singapore Institute of Management	RMIT University; SUNY Buffalo; University of Manchester; Grenoble School of Management; La Trobe University; University of Sydney; University of Birmingham; University of London International Programmes; University of Stirling; University of Warwick; University of Wollongong
Singapore Raffles Music College	University of West London
TMC Academy	University of Northampton; Monash University; University of Greenwich; Griffith University; Western Sydney University; La Trobe University; University of Missouri–Kansas City; University of the West of England

See also

• Education in Singapore
• List of schools in Singapore
• Lists of universities and colleges by country