Yale-NUS College
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Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it is the first Liberal Arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%, it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven, Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history, making Yale one of the first American Ivy League schools to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Motto | A community of learning, Founded by two great universities, In Asia, for the world |
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Type | Liberal arts college |
Active | 11 April 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-11)[1]–2025 (2025)[2] |
Endowment | S$429.8 million[3] |
President | Joanne Roberts |
Academic staff | 140[3] |
Undergraduates | 981[4] |
Address | 16 College Avenue West , 1°18′25.5″N 103°46′19″E |
Campus | Urban, 9.07 acres (3.67 ha) |
Colors | Orange Blue |
Mascot | Halcyon[5] |
Website | www |
Yale-NUS is a four-year, fully residential undergraduate institution. The first class, the class of 2017, consisted of 157 students entering in 2013. At full capacity, the college has 250 students in each class.[6] Students select their majors[7] at the end of their second year, after two years of the Yale-NUS Common Curriculum. Students graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours or a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from Yale-NUS College, conferred by NUS.
About 58% of students at Yale-NUS are Singaporeans and 42% are international students. Yale-NUS College receives more than 10,000 applications annually and enrolls 250 students per year, with an average acceptance rate of 5.2%.[8][9] Apart from Singapore University of Technology and Design, Yale-NUS is the only other college in Singapore to follow a holistic admissions process similar to that followed by Yale and other American universities.
In August 2021, it was announced that Yale-NUS College will be merged with the NUS University Scholars Programme to form a new interdisciplinary honours college, with the Class of 2025 being the last cohort of Yale-NUS students.[10][11] According to Pericles Lewis, this decision was part of NUS' plan for a "broader restructuring of Singapore’s educational offerings, one that had been conceived of in 2018".[12] The new college will not feature liberal arts subjects in its core curriculum.[13] In January 2022, it was announced that the provisionally-named New College would be named NUS College.[14]