Global InformationList of universities in Singapore information
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]
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]
In March 2021, Minister for Education Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore’s first arts university would 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.[29] University of the Arts Singapore (UAS)[30] was established in 2023 as a collegiate university with both colleges under the umbrella university and has been given degree-awarding powers independent of their previous foreign partners, where the long-distance degrees were issued through foreign universities.[31] Singaporean citizens and permanent residents enrolled in the approved degree programmes at the university of the arts will pay subsidised fees like those at autonomous universities.[32] The seventh local university in Singapore, it is the only publicly-funded private university other than the now-defunct SIM University in Singapore and also the only university of the arts with degree-conferring powers. It has two constituent colleges, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the LASALLE College of the Arts.[30]
- ^ "NUS - Founded by the community". www.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "National University of Singapore (NUS)". Top Universities. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Our University Rankings". Corporate NTU. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Autonomous universities". www.moe.gov.sg. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Private Education Institution Graduate Employment Survey". SkillsFuture SG. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Work pass exemption for foreign students". Ministry of Manpower Singapore. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ Safón, Vicente (1 November 2013). "What do global university rankings really measure? The search for the X factor and the X entity". Scientometrics. 97 (2): 223–244. doi:10.1007/s11192-013-0986-8. ISSN 1588-2861.
- ^ "CWTS Leiden Ranking". CWTS Leiden Ranking. Leiden University Centre for Science and Technology Studies. 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Understanding the Methodology: QS World University Rankings". Top Universities. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). 8 June 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "METHODOLOGY FOR OVERALL AND SUBJECT RANKINGS FOR THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2024" (PDF). Times Higher Education (THE) (PDF). September 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ Morse, Robert; Wellington, Sam (24 October 2022). "How U.S. News Calculated the 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities Methodology 2020". ShanghaiRanking. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Independent Expert Group (IEG) (2023). Statement on Global University Rankings (PDF) (Report). United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health. doi:10.37941/pb/2023/2.
- ^ Muller, Seán M (1 January 2017). "Academics as rent seekers: distorted incentives in higher education, with reference to the South African case". International Journal of Educational Development. 52: 58–67. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.11.004. ISSN 0738-0593.
- ^ Bautista-Puig, Núria; Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Perez-Esparrells, Carmen (1 January 2022). "Enhancing sustainable development goals or promoting universities? An analysis of the times higher education impact rankings". International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 23 (8): 211–231. doi:10.1108/IJSHE-07-2021-0309. hdl:10251/190204. ISSN 1467-6370.
- ^ Soudien, Crain (5 May 2014). "The Influence of Rankings and Incentive Systems on Academic Publishing in South African Universities". Education Policy Analysis Archives. 22: 33–33. doi:10.14507/epaa.v22n33.2014. ISSN 1068-2341.
- ^ Jacqmin, Julien (3 September 2021). "Do ads influence rankings? Evidence from the higher education sector". Education Economics. 29 (5): 509–526. doi:10.1080/09645292.2021.1918642. ISSN 0964-5292.
- ^ Chirikov, Igor (1 October 2023). "Does conflict of interest distort global university rankings?". Higher Education. 86 (4): 791–808. doi:10.1007/s10734-022-00942-5. ISSN 1573-174X.
- ^ a b Gadd, Elizabeth (24 November 2020). "University rankings need a rethink". Nature. 587 (7835): 523–523. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03312-2.
- ^ Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Blanco Ramirez, Gerardo; Andreotti, Vanessa de Oliveira (May 2017). "Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable: A Decolonial Reading of Global University Rankings". Comparative Education Review. 61 (S1): S51–S73. doi:10.1086/690457. ISSN 0010-4086.
- ^ Erkkilä, Tero (March 2014). "Global University Rankings, Transnational Policy Discourse and Higher Education in Europe". European Journal of Education. 49 (1): 91–101. doi:10.1111/ejed.12063. hdl:20.500.12799/2908. ISSN 0141-8211.
- ^ Brankovic, Jelena; Ringel, Leopold; Werron, Tobias (20 August 2018). "How Rankings Produce Competition: The Case of Global University Rankings". Zeitschrift für Soziologie (in German). 47 (4): 270–288. doi:10.1515/zfsoz-2018-0118. ISSN 2366-0325.
- ^ Mustajoki, Arto (2013), Erkkilä, Tero (ed.), "Measuring Excellence in Social Sciences and Humanities: Limitations and Opportunities", Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 147–165, doi:10.1057/9781137296870_9, ISBN 978-1-137-29687-0, retrieved 5 February 2024
- ^ Lo, William Yat Wai (May 2011). "Soft power, university rankings and knowledge production: distinctions between hegemony and self‐determination in higher education". Comparative Education. 47 (2): 209–222. doi:10.1080/03050068.2011.554092. ISSN 0305-0068.
- ^ Independent Expert Group (IEG) (2023). Statement on Global University Rankings (PDF) (Report). United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health. doi:10.37941/pb/2023/2.
- ^ Anafinova, Saule (1 October 2020). "The role of rankings in higher education policy: Coercive and normative isomorphism in Kazakhstani higher education". International Journal of Educational Development. 78: 102246. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102246. ISSN 0738-0593. PMC 7452901.
- ^ Independent Expert Group (IEG) (2023). Statement on Global University Rankings (PDF) (Report). United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health. doi:10.37941/pb/2023/2.
- ^ "Singapore schoolkids struggle with stress | New Straits Times". New Strait Times Business Times. Agence France-Presse (AFP). 3 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Singapore's first university of the arts to be established in NAFA and LASALLE alliance". CNA.
- ^ a b "Singapore's first arts university, formed by NAFA and LASALLE alliance, to welcome students from 2024". CNA.
- ^ "UAS Year In Review". uas.edu.sg. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Singapore to get first university of the arts, formed by alliance between Nafa and Lasalle". The Straits Times. 3 March 2021.