Singapore Institute of Technology
| Institut Teknologi Singapura (Malay) 新加坡理工大学 (Chinese) சிங்கப்பூர் தொழில்நுட்ப கல்வி நிறுவனம் (Tamil) |
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| Type | Publicly-funded Autonomous university |
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| Established | 2009 |
| Endowment | S$360.5 million |
| President | Professor Tan Thiam Soon |
| Provost | Professor Loh Han Tong |
| Undergraduates | 2800 |
| Location |
Singapore, Singapore 1°17′25″N 103°50′58″E / 1.29028°N 103.84944°ECoordinates: 1°17′25″N 103°50′58″E / 1.29028°N 103.84944°E |
| Campus | Distributed Campus |
| Colours | Red, black, white |
| Affiliations | Newcastle University, Technische Universität München, University of Glasgow, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Manchester, Glasgow School of Art, Digipen Institute of Technology, University of Liverpool, Wheelock College, The Culinary Institute of America, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Massey University |
| Website | singaporetech |
The Singapore Institute of Technology (or SIT/Singaporetech) (Abbreviation: SIT) is Singapore's fifth autonomous university. Established in 2009, the university primarily caters to local polytechnic graduates who desire to pursue a bachelor's degree.
The university remains a popular choice for polytechnic graduates and it is known for offering practice-oriented and industry-focused degrees in Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Food Technology, Infocomm Technology, Health and Social Sciences, Design and Specialised Businesses through collaboration with ten of its overseas university partners from the Germany, United States and UK, along with the five local polytechnics. A Bill was passed in the Parliament of Singapore on February 17, 2014 conferring the university autonomous status, allowing it to confer its own degrees. The university begin enrolling its inaugural cohort of students for its own degree programmes in Academic Year 2014/2015.
The university has 6 campuses island-wide: SIT@Dover is the university's main campus and is located at an interim campus in southwest Singapore at Dover and the other five campuses are housed within the grounds of each of the five polytechnics in Singapore: SIT@SP, SIT@NP, SIT@TP, SIT@NYP and SIT@RP. The University is organized into five different clusters. They are the Engineering Cluster, Chemical Engineering and Food Technology Cluster, Infocomm Technology Cluster, Health and Social Sciences Cluster and Design and Specialised Businesses Cluster
On 23 August 2015, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in his National Day Rally that SIT will have a new centralised campus in Punggol. The University will be integrated with a creative industry cluster to be built by JTC Corporation, and into Punggol Downtown and the Housing Board's upcoming Northshore district.
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