Business The NUS Business School was founded as the Department of Business Administration in 1965. Today, the school has over 280 faculty members and 7,000 students.
Computing The School of Computing established in 1998, has two departments: Computer Science; and Information Systems and Analytics.
Dentistry The Faculty of Dentistry traces its origins in 1929 as a Department of Dentistry within the King Edward VII College of Medicine. The faculty conducts a four-year dental course leading to a
Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree.
Design and Engineering The interdisciplinary College of Design and Engineering (CDE) was established in 2021, bringing together two pre-existing faculties, the School of Design and Environment (SDE) and the Faculty of Engineering (FoE). The School of Design and Environment has three departments: Department of Architecture; Department of the Built Environment; and the Division of Industrial Design. The Faculty of Engineering was established in 1968. It is the largest faculty in the university, and consists of several departments spanning diverse engineering fields.
Humanities and Sciences The interdisciplinary College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) was established in 2020. It comprises the two largest faculties, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Science, though both faculties are still branded independently, unlike CDE. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has roots in Raffles College. Initially offering just four subjects: English, History, Geography and Economics, the Faculty now offers majors, minors and special programmes across 16 Departments. This includes the Centre for Language Studies, which teaches 13 different languages, and the Office of Programmes, which houses multidisciplinary fields and minor programmes. The South Asian Studies Programme is not officially classified as a department, but as a departmental entity. The Faculty of Science comprises multiple departments, spanning across natural and applied sciences. The first female Dean of the Faculty of Science was
Gloria Lim, who was appointed in 1973. She served a four-year term and was reappointed in 1979, but resigned after one year to allow
Koh Lip Lin to continue his post. In 1980, University of Singapore merged with
Nanyang University to form NUS, resulting in overlapping posts.
Integrative Sciences and Engineering The NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) was established in 2003. The principal purpose of NGS is "to promote integrative PhD research encompassing both laboratory work and coursework programmes which not only transcend traditional subject boundaries but also provides students with a depth of experience about science and the way it is carried out."
Law The NUS Faculty of Law was first established as a Department of Law in the University of Malaya in 1956. The first law students were admitted to the Bukit Timah campus of the university the following year. In 1980, the faculty shifted to the Kent Ridge campus, but in 2006 it relocated back to the Bukit Timah site. The faculty will be relocated to the Kent Ridge campus at the start of 2026, sharing the former Yale-NUS campus with NUS College. The faculty offers LLB, LLM, JD, and PhD programmes, alongside continuing education and graduate certificate programmes.
Medicine The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS was first established as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905. The School uses the British undergraduate medical system, offering a full-time undergraduate programme leading to a
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). For Nursing, the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) conducted by the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies is offered. The department also offers postgraduate programmes in nursing, medicine, and medical science.
Duke–NUS Medical School The Duke–NUS Medical School (Duke–NUS) is a graduate medical school in Singapore. The school was set up in April 2005 as the Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore's second medical school, after the
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and before the
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. The Duke–NUS Medical School is a collaboration between
Duke University in North Carolina, United States and the National University of Singapore.
Music The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM) is a collaboration between NUS and the
Peabody Institute of
Johns Hopkins University. Singapore's first conservatory of music, YSTCM was founded as the Singapore Conservatory of Music in 2001. The School was renamed Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music after a gift was made by the family of the late Dr Yong Loo Lin in memory of his daughter. The school traces its origins to the University of Malaya's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, formed in 1948. The School of Public health also hosts the
Asia Centre for Health Security.
Public Policy The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was established in 2004 as an autonomous graduate school of NUS. Although the School was formally launched in 2004, it inherited NUS's Public Policy Programme, which was established in 1992 in partnership with
Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government.
Yale-NUS College The Yale-NUS College was a
liberal arts college in Singapore established in August 2013 as a joint project of
Yale University and the National University of Singapore. It was an autonomous college within NUS, allowing it greater freedom to develop its own policies while tapping on the existing facilities and resources of the main university. Students who graduated received a degree awarded by NUS. In August 2021, NUS announced that it was going to merge Yale-NUS College with the University Scholars Programme to form a new honours college, NUS College, by 2025. The merger marked the dissolution of NUS' partnership with Yale University. The last class of Yale-NUS College students were admitted in 2021, following which Yale-NUS operated until 2025. == Teaching centres ==