This is a list of universities in Singapore.
The oldest university in Singapore is the National University of Singapore, which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905. [1] The university along with the Nanyang Technological University are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications. [2] [3] Newer universities have been established by the Singaporean Government since 2000 that specialise in various sectors and in applied learning. [4] Singapore also has partnered and directly-operated campuses from foreign universities and other private institutions offering external degree programs from overseas institutions. [5] [6]
Contents
- Publicly-funded local universities
- Current
- Defunct
- Foreign institutions
- Local campuses of foreign universities
- Foreign universities operating under partnership with local universities
- Local campuses of business schools and other institutions
- Private external degree providers
- See also
- References
The university rankings included below are for reference only. Different university ranking publications use varying methodologies to rank universities [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] and cannot accurately calculate teaching performance, research quality and other abstract functions into a singular numerical composite. [13] University ranking methodologies have been criticised [14] [15] [16] for their subjectivity, bias and lack of consideration for institutional specialisations. [17] [18] [19] Institutional competitiveness reinforced by ranking publication results also discourages inter-institutional academic co-operation, non-anglophone thought and have been described a modern form of colonialism. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [19] The pursuit for higher rankings has also caused many universities globally to prioritise staff for research output over teaching skills and cause stress to high school students. [27] [28]
