The NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) has  built synergistic, complementary partnerships with a select number of world-leading overseas universities and research institutes in China, the USA, the UK, Continental Europe, Japan, and Australia. On NGS's 2+2 Programme all  students have the opportunity to engage in globally progressive research both within Singapore and at any of NGS's partner institutions. The  NGS co-operative research model benefits the participating institutions by facilitating existing research collaborations, and by enabling new ones that are initiated by  talented students. The NGS 2+2 Programme awards no joint degrees, and actual time spent overseas is determined by what will most benefit the student's PhD research project, not by any rigidly fixed structure. The possibility of such flexible research arrangements between labs and institutions serves maximally to benefit all participants.

NGS Scholars may spend up to two years of their four-year PhD  studies at: 

(1) International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU)

•   Australian National University (ANU)
  
•   ETH Zurich
  
•   Peking University 
  
•   University of California, Berkeley
  
•   University of Cambridge
  
•   University of Copenhagen
  
•   University of Oxford
  
•   University of Tokyo
  
•   Yale University
  

(2) Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4)

•   California Institute of Technology
  
•   Duke University
  
•   Georgia Institute of Technology
  
•   Harvard University
  
•   Institut Pasteur
  
•   Johns Hopkins University
  
•   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
•   Max-Planck Institute
  
•   University of California
  

(3) Karolinska Institute (KI), KI-NUS

• Karolinska Institute (KI)

(4) Interactive and Digital Media (IDM)

• University of Southern California

(5) Other excellent institutions as nominated by supervisors

Click here for more information on the application.
Click here to download the application form.
Click here to download the progress report and evaluation form.

NOTE: The form has to be completed by the supervisor with details of the existing NGSS student he/she would like to nominate.