The National University of Singapore, or NUS for short, is Singapore's premier, world-class university. The university is a member of the Pacific Rim University Alliance, the Asian University Alliance, the Asia Pacific Association for International Education, the International Research University Alliance, Universitas 21 and other prestigious university alliances, and is also accredited by AACSB and EQUIS. His research in the fields of engineering, life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences and natural sciences is world-renowned.
<h3>Predecessor History</h3>
• Edward VII Medical School
In 1823, Sir Stamford Raffles met with dr Robert Morison, a prominent sinologist and missionary, to establish a higher institution in Singapore with departments of science, liberal arts and ethics, enrolling students of all races.
In 1903, Chinese legislator Tan Ruo-kam led several Chinese community representatives to sign a letter to Sir John Anderson, the Governor of Singapore in the Straits Settlements, calling on the government to establish a medical school.
In 1905, Chinese communities in Singapore and Southeast Asia raised 87,000 yuan, including 12,000 yuan from Chen Ruojin, to help found the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. The first edition of the medical school enrolled 23 students, and the class location was set in an old women's mental hospital in four rows.
In 1912, the King Edward VII Memorial Fund donated $124,800 to the Straits Settlements and the Federal Government of Malaya Medical College to establish a professorship fund on physiology. In honor of the donation, the medical school was renamed "King Edward VII Medical School" in the same year. The Malayan Growers Association also donated $1,629 to establish the Bailey Scholarship in memory of the late W W. Bailey. The W W Bailey Memorial Fund also received a pledge of $800 per annum from Highlands and Lowlands Rubber Company in Selangor and the Sungei Way Rubber Plantation. The Physiology Professors Foundation appointed Dr J.A. Campbell as its first professor for a term from 1913 to 1921.
In 1916, the Medical And Surgical License issued by Edward VII Medical School was officially recognized by the British General Council of Medical Education. In the same year, the Malay Federal Government invested in the construction of a Malay Federal Dormitory for 72 boys.
In 1920, the Edward VII Medical School was renamed the King Edward VII College of Medicine, and its academic status was upgraded to a university, providing medical training and adding professors of anatomy, medicine, midwifery and gynecology, clinical surgery and surgery.
In 1925, Edward VII Medical School received a $350,000 donation from The Rockefeller Foundation to hire additional professors of bacteriology, biochemistry, and biology.
In 1926, the new building of the Medical School was inaugurated on Outram Road and was presided over by Governor Sir Lawrence Guillemard.
In 1929, the Faculty of Dentistry of the Faculty of Medicine enrolled its first students and opened a public clinic at the Edward VII School of Medicine.
In 1934, the Faculty of Medicine was accredited by The League of Nations as the Centre for International Curriculum Study in Malaria.
In 1942, during the Japanese occupation of World War II, the Edward VII Medical School was taken over by the Japanese government and became the headquarters of the Japanese army and the location of the Japanese army's serum research unit.
In 1945, when the Japanese army surrendered and the British army returned to Singapore, medical students called on the British government to reopen medical schools.
In 1946, edwardian medical school reopened after world war II, and the degree of dental surgery awarded was recognized by the British Medical Council.
In 1948, Dr Benjamin Sheares of Raffles College was appointed Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Faculty of Medicine, and he became Singapore's second President in 1971.
• Raffles College
In 1918, the centenary of the opening of the port of Raffles was commemorated by The Straits Settlements Auxiliary Secretary George W. Thompson. The Centennial Committee, headed by Sir George Maxwell, was formed and included local community leaders. The Committee recommended the establishment of a college named after Singapore's founder, Sir Stanford Raffles, as a memorial and as a start to a future university.
In 1919, a working committee led by H W Firmstone, The Department of Debating in the British Colonial Government, submitted a report proposing the creation of a higher education institution called Raffles College.
In 1922, the decree establishing Raffles College was officially passed, and the British colonial government held an empire-wide architectural design competition, inviting architects to propose designs for the new college.
Raffles College
In 1928, Raffles College enrolled the first 43 students.
In 1929, Raffles College was officially opened by Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor-General of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner of the Malay Federation. The Straits Settlements and the Malay Federal Government have both allocated funds, and the Chinese and European communities have donated 540,000 yuan and 426563 yuan respectively. Among them, Chinese business leaders Huang Zhonghan, Chen Siyuan and Yu Dongxuan all donated 150,000 yuan, 120,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan in their personal names, respectively, and Sir Manasseh Meyer also donated 150,000 yuan. Richard Winstedt was appointed as the first Dean of Raffles College. The College offers diploma courses in English, History, Economics, Geography, Education, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and other departments.
In 1934, the British colonial government implemented a new policy, and the Channel Settlements Civil Service admitted two outstanding Raffles College graduates to executive positions each year.
In 1938, Raffles College introduced a one-year postgraduate programme in education, giving selected education graduates the opportunity to continue their studies.
In 1940, Raffles College hired its first local lecturer, Lim Tay Boh.
In 1941, with the outbreak of World War II, Raffles College was expropriated by the Colonial Government's Medical Services Service to serve as a nursing home and first aid station for medical auxiliary services.
In 1946, after the end of World War II, Raffles College reopened its courses and appointed W E Dyer as Dean.
• University of Malaya
In 1940, at the initiative of Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's High Commissioner to Southeast Asia, the British government passed the Colonial Development and Welfare Bill, which supported the colonies in accelerating their development projects. Dr Raymond Priestly, President of the University of Birmingham, was invited to visit Malaya and proposed the establishment of a university here.
In 1946, Dr Tan Shu Nan, the first graduate of edwardian medical school, and the medical school alumni association called on the British military control government to establish a university as soon as possible.
In 1947, a committee led by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, dean of the London School of Economics and Political Science, set out to study the feasibility of establishing a university in Singapore.
University of Malaya
In 1948, the Carr-Saunders Commission Report was published, proposing the creation of a comprehensive university that could confer bachelor's degrees.
In 1949, the University of Malaya was founded, with The British High Commissioner in Southeast Asia, Madonna, as Honorary President and Dr. G V Allen, Dean of the Edward VII Medical School, as President. Malaya University CouncilLord Chan Chun Chuan funded the production of the University Staff, designed by British silver jewellers Mappin and Mr Webb.
In 1953, the new building of the library was completed. The Federal Government of Malaya and the Colonial Government of Singapore have set up a joint committee to review the future development of medical education at the University of Malaya.
In 1954, the University of Malaya, based in Singapore, was awarded the Coat of Arms by the College of Arms. The Joint Committee to Review the Future Development of the University of Malaya recommended abandoning the plan to relocate Johor Bahru, selecting appropriate locations in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, and opening departments of agriculture, engineering and faculties of letters in Kuala Lumpur. The Medical Education Review Committee proposes to further expand the Faculty of Medicine. The University of Malaya Society was established to better represent and promote the rights of HMA graduates.
In 1957, R S Aitken, President of the University of Birmingham, was commissioned to lead a five-member advisory committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the organisational structure, administration, finance and expansion of the University of Malaya. The University of Malaya commenced classes in Kuala Lumpur in preparation for the establishment of the University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur in the Federation of Malaya.
In 1959, the new statutes of the University of Malaya came into force and the University of Malaya was renamed the University of Malaya in Singapore. The Department of Indian Studies, the Department of Malay Studies, the Department of Geography and the Department of Engineering were relocated to the University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur.
In 1961, the University of Singapore Ordinance replaced the University of Malaya Ordinance.
• Nanyang University
Nanyang University
In 1955, the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaysia donated money to establish Nanyang University, referred to as Nanda For short.
• University of Singapore
In 1962, the two branches of the University of Malaya parted ways and became two separate universities. The Singapore branch was renamed The University of Singapore, with Datuk Lee Kwong Chien as the first Honorary President of NSU, the first being Dr Srinivassen.
In 1963, the Singapore government and NSU jointly established a seven-member committee to explore the feasibility of opening a faculty of science and technology or a faculty of applied sciences at NSU. The Centre for Southeast Asian Studies in Social Science, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hosted for the first time a major international symposium on the theme "Leadership and Authority in Asia", opened by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In 1964, NSU and the Singapore Institute of Technology accepted the advice of Colombo Project experts to develop the Singapore Institute of Technology into an advanced scientific and technological institution with a school of engineering, a school of accounting, and a school of architecture, and a bachelor's degree from the university at the end of the course.
In 1966, NSU announced that it would make a special arrangement to award new university degrees to graduates of the Bachelor of Architecture, Accounting and Engineering programmes at the Singapore Polytechnic Institute. The Off-Campus Continuing Education Program was officially upgraded to an Off-Campus Continuing Education Department.
In 1967, NSU admitted the first Malay students to receive the Higher School Certificate in Malay. In response to the educational policy of equal treatment of the four major language streams, NSU expanded the Department of Chinese language and Sinology studies and the Department of Malay Social and Cultural Studies, and relaunched the Indian Studies Curriculum. Named after the sugar king Oei Tiong Ham, the "Huang Zhonghan Hall" was expanded and renamed "Huang Zhonghan Building".
In 1968, the World Health Organization selected Singapore as its Asian Regional Immunology Training and Research Centre, located within the NSU School of Medicine. Experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization presented NSU with a $150 million restructuring proposal outlining the restructuring measures that NSU needed to take to meet Singapore's economic needs in the 1970s, including relocating the campus, opening the School of Engineering, and transferring all of SSTECH's bachelor's programmes to NSU. The Graduate School of Medicine became an independent institution and was no longer affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine.
In 1969, NSU awarded Singapore's President and NSU President Yusov Issa an Honorary Doctor of Letters. Eight Asian countries– Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, have jointly established the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development, located in NSU.
In 1970, NSU Vice-Chancellor Reginald Quahe officiated the inauguration ceremony for the Department of Nephrology of the Department of Clinical Medicine, which treats kidney patients and represents a major breakthrough in Singapore's fight against kidney disease.
In 1971, the new academic year, which began in May, was changed to July, and the academic year was divided into three semesters and changed to two semesters, so that all freshmen could complete part of the national service.
In 1972, the World Bank granted Singapore a loan of $28.5 million to finance the expansion and relocation of the New Grand. Shao Renmei presided over the opening ceremony of the Human Fertility Department founded by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The department is located in Zhujiao Hospital, one of ten clinical research centers designated by the World Health Organization for human fertility.
In 1973, NTU and NTU established a joint admissions committee to coordinate admissions affairs between the two universities and promote bilateral ties.
In 1975, the Singapore Parliament passed the University of Singapore Amendment Act.
In 1976, the School of Architecture and Architecture moved from the Lady Hill Campus to the new Campus in Kent Hills, the first of its kind to settle on a new campus in the first phase of the project.
In 1978, NTU's Bukit Timah Campus became a joint campus between NTU and NTU to assist NTU in transforming it into an English-based university.
In 1980, the Singapore government issued the National University of Singapore Act, which approved the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University to form the National University of Singapore. Dr Chan Hing Yan was appointed as the first President of nuskawitt.
<h3>Pioneering and enterprising</h3>
• National University of Singapore
In 1980, the Singapore government announced the National University of Singapore Act, which merged the University of Singapore with Nanyang University to form the National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Tan Ching Yan, then Minister of Education, was appointed as the first President of NUS. Kent Hill Hostel and Raffles Residence are opened.
In 1981, the National University of Singapore and the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) partnered to create the Institute of Systems Science.
In 1982, the National University of Singapore (NUS) designed and launched a new coat of arms by incorporating the emblems of the university of Singapore and Nanyang University.
In 1988, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology used the "Micro-Insemination Sperm Transfer" technology to complete the world's first microinjection fertilization success case. This technology can help men with very small sperm counts to solve infertility problems.
In 1989, the National University of Singapore was linked to one of two supercomputers set up in Singapore Science Park.
In 1991, NUSNET, the optical fiber network, was officially launched on April 11. NUSNET uses the most extensive and advanced campus network in the Asia-Pacific region, connecting with about 3,000 educational and research institutions around the world via the Internet.
In 1992, using a two-way audio-visual communication network technology, NUS conducted a remote lecture with the University of Minnesota in the United States, setting a precedent for colleges and universities in the region.
In 1994, the Academy of Systems Sciences was selected as a partner of the Japanese organization Real World Computing.
In July 1996, NUS launched the Talent Development Programme.
In 1997, NUS held its inaugural Faculty Awards Ceremony and presented awards in three categories, including the Teaching Excellence Award, the Outstanding Fellow Award and the Staff Achievement Award, which commended faculty and staff with outstanding performance in teaching, research and service respectively.
In 1998, the Pilot Preparation Programme was launched to prepare NUS students for exchange internships in non-English-speaking European countries. THE UNIVERSITY has partnered with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique to establish the Image Processing and Application Laboratory. The laboratory is a project under the R&D Collaboration Programme and is based at NUS, with research areas including indexing and retrieving video data and 3D images in medical applications.
In 1999, the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance launched its inaugural full-time postgraduate program in July, offering degrees such as the Master of Science in Advanced Materials, the Master of Science in High Performance Computing in Engineering Systems, the Master of Engineering, and the Doctor of Philosophy.
In 2001, nusmus Bodily Programme was launched. The programme selects the most outstanding gifted students from the Faculties of Letters and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Business, the Faculty of Computer Science, the Faculty of Design and Environment, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science, respectively, to provide them with an environment in which they can stimulate their intellectual curiosity and maximize their potential, so that they can concentrate on their studies.
In 2002, NUS announced a new vision and new mission: NUS will uphold the mission of "developing knowledge, encouraging innovation, educating students, cultivating talents, serving the country and repaying society", and realize the vision of "becoming one of the global knowledge enterprises, so that education, research, entrepreneurship and coordinated development", with a view to better meet new challenges and seize new opportunities in a global economy with knowledge promotion and rapid innovation.
In 2004, the Nuskawi was elected re-elected President at the Annual Presidents' Conference of the Union of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) in Chile, continuing to lead the coalition of 36 top research universities for the new two-year term.
In 2005, NUS signed agreements with nine top research universities on four continents: Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States to establish the International Alliance of Research Universities –IARU.
In 2006, NUS cooperated with Fudan University in Shanghai and Korea University in Korea to establish the "Shanghai, Seoul and Singapore University Alliance" (taking the English names of the three cities, referred to as the "S3 University Alliance").
On January 31, 2008, the groundbreaking ceremony for University Town was held at the former Warren Golf Course, hosted by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. NUS signed the Contract Research Framework Agreement with the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
In 2009, NUS President Prof Tan Chu Chu-chuen proclaimed NUS's new vision and mission: NUS will uphold the vision of "a world-class top university based in Asia, looking at the world and influencing the future", and aspire to become an authoritative institution recognized as an authoritative university that can influence the future trend of Asia.
In 2010, NUS opened its first research institute in China, the Suzhou Research Institute of the National University of Singapore.
In 2012, NUS and the Temasek Foundation jointly launched the TF-NUS Programme for Leadership in University Management.
In 2018, NUS and Nagoya University in Japan concluded a university-wide academic exchange agreement.
From 17 February 2020, the National University of Singapore, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, the National Institutes of Health, the Pasteur Institutes in St. Petersburg and the Russian National Research Center for Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases in Russia, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan, the Seoul National University School of Medicine in South Korea, as well as the Nigerian Centers for Disease Control and the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, together with Chinese experts, visited Beijing, Guangdong and Sichuan in China, to understand the implementation and impact of China's response to COVID-19 at the provincial and county levels, in urban and rural settings. [1]
On 3 June 2020, Times Higher Education announced its Asia University Rankings 2020, with the National University of Singapore ranked third. [2]
On 15 August 2020, the National University of Singapore ranked 80th in the world and 1st in The Country in the 2020 Academic Rankings of World Universities in Soft Subjects. [3]
On 2 September 2020, Times Higher Education released the World University Rankings 2021, with the National University of Singapore ranked 25th. [4]
<h3>Resources</h3>
1. WHO discloses the composition of the international expert group belonging to the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea and other seven countries [Cited on 2020-02-20]
2. Chinese mainland Universities Topped times higher education Asia University Rankings for the first time [Cited 2020-06-04]
3. World University Rankings Announced: Top 100 Mainland Universities in the World, Peking University's First Top 50_Science and Technology Pan_The Paper [Cited on 2020-08-15]
4. Latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings [Cited 2020-09-03]
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