Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University
Established 1981
Type Autonomous
Endowment S$914 million[1]
Chancellor President S R Nathan
President Dr Su Guaning
Academic staff 1,100
Admin. staff 3,739
Students 28,949
Undergraduates 20,206
Postgraduates 8,743
Location Nanyang Avenue, Singapore
Campus 2 km²
Colors      University Red
     School Blue
Affiliations ASAIHL, AUN, Global Alliance of Technological Universities
Website www.ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 南洋理工大學
Simplified Chinese 南洋理工大学
Malay name
Malay Universiti Teknologi Nanyang
Tamil name
Tamil நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம்

Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU) is a research university in Singapore. The university's main 200-hectare garden campus, known as the Yunnan Garden campus, is in the south-western part of the island. It houses Singapore's largest on-campus residence infrastructure including 16 halls of residence for undergraduates and a graduate hall. In 2009, it has been ranked 73rd[2] in THE-QS World University Rankings (From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings).[3] NTU was the Olympic Village for the first-ever Youth Olympic Games in 2010. It is a founding member of Global Alliance of Technological Universities.[4]

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Campus

Lee Wee Nam Library
Administrative Building
Chinese Heritage Centre, formerly the administrative building of Nanyang University

The Yunnan Garden campus, with its lush landscape and undulating terrain, is located in south-western Singapore, some 25 km (16 mi) from the city-centre. The original part of the campus was built in 1986 and the campus buildings are laid out on a master plan drawn up by architect Kenzo Tange.

Members of the university community study and work in laboratories, lecture theatres and tutorial rooms. The School of Art, Design and Media has grassy-sloped roofs mimicking the rolling hills of the garden campus.

The campus has an e-learning infrastructure on top of a wired and wireless network setup. Seminars and lectures are supported by facilities that allow multi-media presentations, video-conferencing and communication between lecture theatres and venues.

Staff and students can choose to live in quarters and residential halls within the NTU Campus, and have access to leisure and recreational facilities. Students are able to choose from single or double-sharing rooms, although there have been proposals of triple room sharing.

In late 2000, NTU's National Institute of Education shifted into its new $400 million campus at the NTU grounds.

Colleges, schools and institutes

NTU has four colleges, comprising 12 schools. The College of Engineering, with six schools focused on technology innovation, enjoys wide renown and ranks fourth in the world in engineering publications. The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has Singapore's first professional art school, the Humanities and Social Science School, and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. The school is named after the late Dr Wee Kim Wee, a former President of Singapore who was a journalist and diplomat.

College of Engineering

College of Engineering website

College of Science

Nanyang Business School

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Autonomous Entities

Institutes and Centres

Research Institutes and Centres

NTU has multi-national programmes and initiatives with institutions worldwide. Some examples of key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University; world-class universities in Asia such as Beijing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda, IIT of India; and European universities like Cambridge University, Imperial College London, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Karolinska Institutet and Technische Universität München.

Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

Other Institutes and Centers

Joint Centres with External Organizations

The Nanyang Chronicle

The Nanyang Chronicle is the campus' largest print and web news outlet, with a print circulation of approximately 15,000. Serving primarily NTU staff and students, the Chronicle is distributed across the campus on newsstands and is published once every three weeks. It is run entirely by a team of student editors with guidance from teacher advisors from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI).

It was first published in July 1994 with the aim of providing timely campus news and information, as well as being the voice of the campus population. The paper also provides practical training for undergraduates who are keen to work in the field of journalism after graduation.[5]

As of 2010, the chief editor is Shereen Naaz Charles and the managing editor is Elizabeth Law.

Internet learning on Campus

The University is connected to the Internet. All the facilities and resources available over the Internet are accessible by anyone on the campus network. The campus network, which links together all computing systems on the campus, is managed by the University's Centre for IT Services (CITS).

To supplement the fixed-line campus network, NTU implemented a campus-wide wireless network in 2000. This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabits per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection.

NTU provides e-learning services via edveNTUre. edveNTUre, based on BlackBoard technology, provides the framework and eco-system for learning and teaching. Besides providing a repository of lecture recordings, lecture notes, it also facilitates learning activities for collaboration, discussion, assessment and project work. During term time, the usage typically by faculty and students exceeds nine-million page views weekly (Jan 2010).

Extra-curricular activities

Since its inauguration 19 years ago, the Nanyang Technological University Cultural Activities Club (CAC)[6] has evolved into one of the largest student bodies on campus. The CAC is an umbrella organization for 21 member clubs and manages large-scale projects such as the NTU Talentime – Impresario and the annual Nanyang Arts Festival, NTU's version of the Singapore Arts Festival. The clubs involve approximately 2,000 students in either performing or event-management roles. Coupled with more than 500 performing alumni, the CAC boasts a membership strength of at least 2,500.

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Report 2007". Nanyang Technological University. 15 August 2007. http://www.ntu.edu.sg/oas2/AnnualRep/2007/financial.htm. 
  2. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=438
  3. ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=438
  4. ↑ http://www.globaltechalliance.org/
  5. ↑ "About Us". http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/chronicle/about.html Retrieved 2006-04-06
  6. ↑ http://www.ntucac.com

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