Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University

Universiti Teknologi Nanyang  (Malay) 南洋理工大学 (Chinese) நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம் (Tamil)
Former name	Nanyang Technological Institute (1981-1991)
Type	Publicly-funded Autonomous university
Established	1981
Endowment	S$2.3 billion (US$1.8 billion)
Chancellor	Tony Tan Keng Yam
President	Bertil Andersson
Provost	Freddy Boey
Academic staff	1,660
Administrative staff	5,647
Undergraduates	24,300
Postgraduates	8,900
Location	Singapore 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139Coordinates: 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139
Campus	2.0 km2 (0.77 sq mi)
Colours	University Red      School Blue
Affiliations	WA, ABET, ASAIHL, AUN, ACU, DAAD, Global Alliance of Technological Universities
Website	www.ntu.edu.sg

The Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU) is a publicly-funded autonomous university in Singapore. NTU is consistently ranked amongst the world's best universities in all of the major college and university rankings and is regarded as one of the top 2 universities in Asia. In the 2016 QS World University Rankings, NTU was ranked 13th in the world and 2nd in Asia. In the 2016 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, NTU was also ranked 2nd in Asia. Additionally, it has been recognised as the world's top young university for 3 consecutive years by the QS young university rankings.

NTU is a comprehensive and research-intensive university, with over 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The University is organized into eight colleges and schools. They are the College of Engineering, the College of Science, the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Nanyang Business School, and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine - set up jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to several autonomous institutions including the National Institute of Education, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Institute on Asian Consumer Insight, and the College of Professional and Continuing Education.

The university's main campus covers 200 hectares (490 acres) of land, making it the largest university campus in Singapore. The primary campus grounds are located in the western part of Singapore, along 50 Nanyang Avenue. NTU also has two other campuses, one in Novena and another at one-north.

In 1956, prior to Singapore's independence from the British, Nanyang University was established. Nanyang University merged with the National University of Singapore in 1980. A new university—the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI)—was formed to take over Nanyang University's campus in 1981.