The double degree programme in Business Administration/ Business Administration (Accountancy) and Engineering is a special degree programme that combines two disciplines that have significant synergies. The programme is designed to develop the core engineering skills of students so that they would fulfill the requisite professional requirements of their chosen engineering fields. At the same time, the programme will equip a student with the necessary business skills and knowledge in the areas of organizational behavior, finance and accounting, marketing, economics, and business law, among others, in order to be successful in the business world. This combination of engineering and business skills will produce a new breed of business-savvy engineers for the marketplace.
Students will be admitted to the double degree programme only if they meet the requirements of both the School of Business and the Faculty of Engineering. A committee comprising staff members from both Business and Engineering will review applications.
Students may be admitted to the programme in one of the following ways:
Engineering students who plan to enroll in this double degree programme after the first-year are encouraged to read at least one Business course in the first year to enable them to better understand the Business programme. Students applying to the Accountancy DDP must have obtained at least B+ grades for ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers and preferably also ACC2706 Managerial Accounting. Similarly, Business and Accountancy students who plan to enroll in this programme are also encouraged to read at least one Engineering course in their first year.
Please note that the grades obtained in these Business/Engineering exposure courses will be taken into account in the shortlisting process. Therefore, the S/U option should not be exercised on these exposure courses.
To be eligible for late-entry application, the Grade Point Average (GPA) must be at least 3.75.
The applicant will also need to meet the minimum prevailing admission criteria of both courses*, which are found at:
The applicant’s non-academic activities may be considered.
Information on courses offered and the class schedules are available at: https://nusmods.com/
The fees payable by students in the double degree programme will be in accordance with University guidelines on tuition fees.
Students can choose to leave the programme, or can be removed from the programme if they fail to meet requirements. Students who choose to leave the double degree programme are permitted to work instead for a single degree in their original home faculty. Units completed in the double degree programme will be counted towards the fulfillment of the degree requirements of the home faculty, subject to the normal limits of the Faculty curriculum.
DDP students who wish to withdraw from the DDP:
DDP students who wish to withdraw from the 2nd degree programme should submit their request to their home Faculty Administrators after the release of the results of the immediate past semester and by the first week of the following semester. We urge students to carefully consider if they wish to withdraw as the decision is irrevocable. Withdrawn students will not be re-admitted into the DDP regardless of GPA.
There shall be no DDP withdrawal allowed in the midst of a semester (except for graduating cases).
Compulsory Internship for former DDP students (whose home faculty is Engineering):
Recognising industrial internships as an important element of the professional engineering training, the Faculty of Engineering has re-introduced internships as a compulsory requirement of the Bachelor of Engineering curriculum for students from the 2014 matriculation cohort onwards.
This means that students from Cohort 2014 must do the Internship Module after they choose to leave the DDP or are asked to leave if they fail to meet requirements for remaining in the programme. Depending on when this happens, the exit could extend the normal duration of their degree by an extra semester. Therefore, they are advised to plan their study carefully.
The faculty offers two credit-bearing internship modules:
Depending on the engineering programme, students will enrol in either one of the programmes.
| Course | Duration | Period |
| Industrial Attachment (IA) – applicable to all engineering courses except Engineering Science; and Industrial and Systems Engineering | 24 weeks | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| Vacation Internship Programme (VIP) – only for Engineering Science; and Industrial and Systems Engineering | 12 weeks | Special Term 1 Special Term 2 |
For more information on the compulsory internship, please check with the respective Engineering departments.
Please note that the separate GPAs for the two degrees will be combined and computed as one GPA upon exit from DDP, based on all modules read. This combined GPA will be reflected in the following semester after the release of the examination results.
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DDP students are strongly encouraged to read ES1501X so that they do not need to read an additional communications course which will add to the total workload. However, if you are a DDP student who is also in the USP or University Town residential programme, the respective specially-tailored writing and communication courses that you are reading will be deemed as the equivalent of ES1501X.
Depending on the options that you have chosen, the courses will be classified as:
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There are various options for a DDP student to satisfy the communications requirement:
Only DDP students who are doing an Honours programme in Business or Accountancy must fulfill the Field Service Project (FSP).
For more information, please refer to https://bba.nus.edu.sg/academic-programmes/general-academic-matters/field-service-project/
Students must read modules from the ‘common courses’ table which are carefully mapped to both the engineering and business administration curriculum. These common courses are specially selected to encompass the synergies of the two faculties. It is vital that DDP students read them. Students in the DDP should not avoid them.
However, if there are not enough common courses or if the common courses are offered but there are clashes in the lecture/tutorial/exam timetable or if the common courses are not offered in the particular semester that the student wants to read them and it is not possible to take the course in some other semester, then the student can read two courses (one BEng module & one BBA module) for each common course requirement that is not satisfied subject to the approval of FoE/Biz. Each course will then be separately classified as contributing towards the CAP of the respective degree, ie. either C1 or C2.
Meeting DDP curriculum requirements while undertaking the NOC programme may require the duration of their study to be lengthened by one or two semesters. The NOC courses are considered as “extra” courses over and above the DDP curriculum and will contribute to the GPA of your home faculty’s modules, ie. C1. The lengthening of study may have fee implications as the normal duration of the DDP is only 4.5 or 5 years.
Only under exceptional cases will the NOC courses be considered as fulfilling the Business requirement. Special approval must be obtained from the School of Business prior to the NOC.
The onus is on the students (especially the DDP students whose home faculty is Engineering) to inform the home faculty (c/o Office of Undergraduate Programs, FoE) that these courses can be classified as C2 the moment approval is given by the School of Business. If the home faculty is informed only after the exam processing is done and the GPA is calculated, then the reclassification of the modules into C2 will only be done in their graduating semester as per the normal rules.
Students are to approach their home faculty for advice and approval in classifying and/or re-classifying their current semester’s courses. This should be done before Week 5 of the current semester.
Students can reclassify their past semesters’ courses only in their graduating semester. Students are to write in to notify both faculties before week 5 of the graduating semester. The request for re- classification will be subjected to approval by both faculties.
If you should withdraw from the Double Degree Programme, our faculty would still honour the mapping as long as you remain as an engineering student. This means that if you have read MNO2007, you do not have to read EG24012.
Unless otherwise stated, mapping is still honoured by faculty even after student drops out of DDP. For example:
For cohort AY2016 BEng and BBA/BBA(H) DDP
An online application form will be available from mid April until early May. Emails will be sent only to Year 1 students. Please note that senior students in Years 2, 3 and 4 are not eligible to apply for the DDP.
If you are interested in applying for the DDP, you must read at least one Business course in Year 1 to enable you to better understand the Business programme. Similarly, Business students who plan to enroll in this programme are also encouraged to read at least one Engineering course in their first year.
Please note that the grades obtained in these Business/Engineering exposure courses will be taken into account in the shortlisting process. Therefore, the S/U option should not be exercised on these exposure courses.
The minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) requirement for acceptance to the double degree programme is 3.75.
There will be an interview for shortlisted applicants usually in late July where the interview panel will comprise professors from both the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Business. The competition is extremely keen due to the high demand for the limited places available. Therefore, not all shortlisted applicants can be offered a place after the interview.
Please approach the administrators from your own Engineering department and the School of Business. You should bring along your transcript so that the staff from the respective offices can check whether there are any outstanding courses that still need to be fulfilled.
As SEPs are administered by a student's home faculty, DDP students should still approach their home faculty even if they are in a DDP. For example, if their home faculty is the Faculty of Engineering, they need to approach the Engineering SEP co-ordinator for assistance.