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The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), founded in 1956, is the oldest non-profit vocational university for lifelong learning in Singapore. [1] It offers a variety of degree programs such as business management, engineering, fashion design, nursing, mass communications, psychology and hospitality management. [2][3][4]
The NUS Business School was founded as the Department of Business Administration in 1965. [56] The NUS Business School ranks 6th in the Forbes "The Best International MBAs: Two-Year Programs" and 21st in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2022.
The former Raffles College, the site of SMU's first campus. In 1997, the Government of Singapore began considering setting up a third university in Singapore. Ho Kwon Ping, a Singaporean business entrepreneur, was appointed to chair the task-force which determined that the new institution would follow the American university system featuring a more flexible broad-based education.
The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Established by the Ministry of Education, it was formerly known as Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB). ITE has three colleges, ITE College Central, ITE College East ...
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public university in Singapore. Founded in 1981, it is also the second oldest autonomous university in the country. NTU is frequently ranked within the world's top 30 universities according to most major international rankings, [5][6][7][8] and is widely considered to be one of the two most ...
National University of Singapore, with a history dating back to 1905, is the oldest university in Singapore. 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]
Victoria Junior College (VJC) is a co-educational junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education to boarding and day-students. Founded in 1984, [1] the school stands on Marine Vista, less than one kilometre from the affiliated Victoria School. VJC is part of the Victoria-Cedar alliance and is one of Singapore's top Junior ...
Education has always represented an area of focus for Singapore since its independence in 1965. Its emphasis on education partly reflects Singapore's virtual lack of natural resources and Singapore's need to develop its human resource and manpower capability in its continuing quest to build a knowledge-based economy.