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From a modest medical school founded in 1905, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has evolved into Singapore's global university with distinctive strengths in education and research and an entrepreneurial dimension. It has an enrolment of over 24,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from 100 countries.

The University's 14 faculties offer a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment. It also enjoys a close teaching-research nexus with 14 national-level, 20 university-level and more than 80 faculty-based research institutes and centres.

A growing university, NUS aims to build a cohesive NUS community across its three sprawling campus locations. The 150-hectare Kent Ridge campus houses 12 faculties which offer courses ranging from medicine to architecture to music. The Faculty of Law is located at the Bukit Timah campus, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore at the Outram campus aims to groom a new breed of physician-scientists for the biomedical sciences sector.

NUS is strongly committed to advancing knowledge, educating students and nurturing talent in the service of country and society. It also actively fosters a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation so as to promote creative enterprise university-wide.

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