Returning full-time National Servicemen (NSF) »

NUS will reserve places for successful male applicants who are serving full-time National Service (NS) in Singapore. They will only enroll following the completion of their full-time NS obligation, or if they are granted disruption from MINDEF.

Applicants wishing to enroll before they complete their NS should write to the University with supporting documentary evidence of their disruption or deferment from MINDEF, SPF or SCDF. This will assist the University in reviewing their enrolment year.

Applicants who need assistance on the following matters can contact the University via email through our website.

• Update of personal particulars and contact information (e.g. address and contact telephone numbers).
• Request for letter to verify place reserved.
• Relinquish place reserved.

The applicant should provide his full name, NRIC number, date of birth, course reserved and scheduled enrolment year in the email.

Enrolment procedure

Only Full-time NSF, who are due to enroll in the University in 2010, will receive a letter from the University in November 2009.

In the letter, the NSF will be asked to re-confirm his acceptance of the course that has been previously for him via online to indicate that he is still interested in the place. Application number and Admission PIN will be required to log on to the NSF Confirmation Page to re-confirm the acceptance.  Instructions on the re-confirmation of acceptance will be given in the November package.

After the NSF has confirmed his acceptance of the place reserved for him, the University will also send him an enrolment package (including a Freshman Guide) in June of the year that he will be enrolling in the University.

Full-time NSF, who are due to enroll in the University in 2011 or thereafter, will not receive the November package.

Application for a change in course

Some applicants may wish to apply for a change in course while serving full-time NS. As these applicants have yet to matriculate with NUS,they are not considered current NUS students seeking a transfer. Hence, they can apply for a change of course when the Admission exercise for AY2010-2011 open three working days after the release of 2009 Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level results in March 2010.

Applicants are advised to indicate on their new application the course(s) for which they wish to be considered only. It is not necessary to fill up all choices available.

If an NSF succeeds in gaining admission to the new course, the course reserved for him previously will be automatically withdrawn,even if he ultimately decides not to accept the new course given to him.  Hence, if he does not wish to accept the new offer, he must submit an appeal to transfer back to the course previously reserved.  The success of his appeal will be at the discretion of the University. He is therefore advised to accept the new offer, while waiting for the outcome of his appeal to be re-admitted to the course previously reserved may be unsuccessful.

If he is unsuccessful in his new application, he will remain in the course previously reserved, provided he had accepted the reserved course.

Special Term (ST) enrolment for RNS boys matriculation in 2010

You can refer to Registrar's Office website for more information. However updated information on ST for May 2010 will most likely only be posted by Registrar’s Office in January/February 2010.

Please click here to view the Returning National Servicemen (RNS) Special Term Briefing presentation slides.

Please click here for Frequently Asked Questions by NSF.