Covering a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m2, the campus opened to its first cohort of students in January 2013. The campus was officially opened on 8 November that year by then
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The Tay Eng Soon Convention Centre was named after
Tay Eng Soon to commemorate his ministerial service in the
Ministry of Education (MOE), who spearheaded the development of
polytechnics and institutes for technical training in Singapore. Then Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong gave his National Day Rally speech at the Tay Eng Soon Convention Centre from 2013 to 2023 (except 2020 and 2021, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic). ==Academic schools and courses==