Nanyang Technological University
A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has 33,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and its Interdisciplinary Graduate School. It has a new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, set up jointly with Imperial College London.
NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and 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).
A fast-growing university with an international outlook, NTU is putting its global stamp on Five Peaks of Excellence: Sustainable Earth, Future Healthcare, New Media, New Silk Road, and Innovation Asia.
Besides the main Yunnan Garden campus, NTU also has a satellite campus in Singapore’s science and tech hub, one-north, and a third campus in Novena, Singapore’s medical district.
For more information, visit www.ntu.edu.sg.
Nanyang Centre for Public Administration
Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA) at Nanyang Technological University is Singapore’s leading institution that provides public governance and administration training programmes for regional and international organisations. Among its 15,000 alumni, many are holding decision-making positions on all levels of government in their countries, including ministerial-level leaders, mayors and heads of organisations. Students come from all over China and from other nations such as Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar and Cambodia.
NCPA offers two Master’s programmes targeted at Chinese government officials, namely the Master of Science in Managerial Economics (Chinese) and the Master of Public Administration (Chinese and English) programmes, also known as “The Mayors’ Class”, as well as short-term customised executive training programmes to nurture and prepare students for professional, managerial and leadership positions and careers in government and public agencies. The Centre also offers the Master of Arts in Contemporary China (English), an inter-disciplinary programme which is designed to serve the needs of mid-career professionals who are seeking an empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural development of contemporary China.
Besides courses, NCPA conducts and facilitates interdisciplinary fellowship and research programmes focusing on public administration, economic policies, environmental issues, healthcare and social welfare policies, as well as economic development. The Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship is centred around an exchange programme resulting in a research project that fosters intellectual and cultural sharing in the interests of social development and economy prosperity. For more information, visit ncpa.ntu.edu.sg