Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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| Type | Graduate school |
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| Established | August 2004 |
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Parent institution
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National University of Singapore |
| Dean | Kishore Mahbubani |
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469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 1°19′11″N 103°49′03″E / 1.31980°N 103.81747°ECoordinates: 1°19′11″N 103°49′03″E / 1.31980°N 103.81747°E |
| Campus |
Suburban Bukit Timah Campus |
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| Affiliations | APSIA |
| Website | Official website |
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, or LKY School, is an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The QS World University Rankings (2015/164) ranked NUS 12th in the world and 1st in Asia. It was formally launched on 4 August 2004 and named in honour of Singapore’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister. The School inherited the Policy Programme that NUS had set up with Harvard Kennedy School in 1992. Today, the LKY School offers four master's degree programmes and a PhD programme, and has four research centres.
The mission of the School is to 'educate and inspire current and future generations of leaders to raise the standards of governance in Asia, improve the lives of its people and contribute to the transformation of the region.'
Its Executive Education, the consultancy arm of the School, established also in 2010 provides short term training programs for over 2,000 senior professionals annually from over 90 countries worldwide.
As of 2014, the School has over 2,200 alumni from nearly 80 countries. About 80 per cent of its student body consists of international students with the rest from Singapore.
The School offers four master's degree programmes. They are:
It also offers a PhD in Public Policy.
Both MPP and MPA students may choose to pursue a double degree with NUS Business School (MPA-MBA) or NUS Law School (MPA-LLM).
As a member of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), students from its MPP programme have the opportunity to enroll in a dual degree programme with either the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, London School of Economics, Sciences Po, GraSPP, University of Tokyo, Peking University, Tsinghua University, or University of Geneva.
The School has student exchange programmes with:
Asia and the Pacific
Americas
Europe
Africa & the Middle East
The LKY School has built up research expertise in seven core areas principally, which are key areas of public policy challenges in Asia in the years and decades ahead. The five baskets of research focus are:
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