{"id":385,"date":"2021-01-13T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T04:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qat-nus.nus.edu.sg\/nusbulletin\/ay202122\/?page_id=385"},"modified":"2021-03-31T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:36:38","slug":"undergraduate-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nusbulletin\/ay202122\/programmes\/university-scholars-programme\/undergraduate-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\tUniversity Scholars Programme\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tUndergraduate Education\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Admissions<\/h4>\n\t\t\t

Students apply to join USP. Application is by academic and co-curricular transcripts, an essay,\u00a0and an interview. Students are admitted based on their academic potential and co-curricular achievements, together with their passion, motivation, and curiosity.\u00a0Students may refer to the\u00a0http:\/\/www.usp.nus.edu.sg\/admissions<\/a>\u00a0for more USP admission-related matters.<\/p>\n

Prospective students complete and submit their USP application at the same time as their NUS application for admissions to any of USP\u2019s partner faculties or schools, namely, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS Business School (BIZ), School of Computing (SOC), School of Design and Environment (SDE), Faculty of Engineering (FOE), Faculty of Law (LAW) and Faculty of Science (FOS). Each application will be processed separately. They can apply online through the USP admissions portal (usp.sg<\/a>) by the closing date, which is typically 1 week after the closing date for NUS application each year. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.<\/p>\n

Open to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS Business School (BIZ), School of Computing (SOC), School of Design and Environment (SDE), Faculty of Engineering (FOE) and Faculty of Science (FOS), NUS students in their first semester may also apply to join USP during USP\u2019s 2nd\u00a0admissions exercise from 1 to 31 October each year.<\/p>\n

Students who are interested to pursue one of the double degree programmes available in NUS may also apply to USP, provided the two degrees are offered by our partner faculties or schools, with the exception of NUS Law. In most cases, students who are admitted to both programmes will need to extend their candidature in NUS in order to complete all the necessary requirements.<\/p>\n

USP students can apply to change their course of study up to the end of their second year. The application will be subject to the review and approval of the Admissions Selection Committee in NUS, and the relevant faculties or schools involved.<\/p>\n

USP students also live in a residential college \u2013\u00a0Cinnamon College (USP)<\/a>\u00a0in the University Town \u2013 in year one and a second year of their choice, a key feature of USP since 2011. \u00a0Only upon acceptance to USP, students will proceed to apply to live in the residential college (Cinnamon College) via the University Hostel Management System, administered by the NUS Office of Student Affairs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Curriculum Structure & Requirements<\/h4>\n\t\t\t

USP offers\u00a0a broad-based curriculum that balances both breadth and depth to give students an interdisciplinary education. An undergraduate in the University Scholars Programme takes 30% of his or her modules in USP and the remaining modules (70%) in his or her home faculty or school as well as from other faculties or schools. While in USP, the student is exempted from certain requirements that apply to students not in USP, such that all students, regardless of whether they are in USP or not, graduating with an honours degree, will have roughly the same overall requirements in terms of number of Modular Credits (MCs). In the event that the fit of the USP requirements with the home faculty or school is not perfect, it is possible that students may graduate with slightly more MCs compared to their non-USP peers.<\/p>\n

USP offers a three-tier structure which builds upon each other in an intuitive manner, so that each prepares students for the interdisciplinary work they encounter in the subsequent tiers.<\/p>\n

A USP student must read and pass (48MCs):<\/p>\n