Yale-NUS College
| Kolej Yale-NUS (Malay) 耶鲁—新加坡国大学院 (Chinese) யேய்ல்-சிங்கப்பூர் தேசிய பல்கலைக்கழகம் (Tamil) |
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| Motto | A community of learning, Founded by two great universities, In Asia, for the world |
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| Type | Liberal arts college |
| Established | April 2011 |
| Endowment | S$350 million |
| President | Pericles Lewis |
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Academic staff
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101 |
| Undergraduates | 517 |
| Location |
Singapore 1°17′44″N 103°46′36″E / 1.29556°N 103.77667°ECoordinates: 1°17′44″N 103°46′36″E / 1.29556°N 103.77667°E |
| Campus | 9.07 acres (0.0367 km2) |
| Colors | Blue and Orange |
| Mascot | Halcyon |
| Website | yale-nus.edu.sg |
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the few in Asia. Yale-NUS is the first institution outside New Haven, Connecticut, that Yale University has developed in its 300-year history, making Yale the first American Ivy League school to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Yale-NUS is predominantly a four-year, fully residential undergraduate institution. The first class, the class of 2017, consisted of 157 students entering in 2013. Over several years, the college intends to increase its student body to 1,000 students and its teaching faculty to 100.Students select their majors (currently there are 14) at the end of their second year, after going through two years of the Yale-NUS Common Curriculum, which is "built from scratch by the inaugural faculty, draws on the strengths of established liberal arts traditions, while introducing our students to the diverse intellectual traditions and cultures of Asia and the world". Students graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours or a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from Yale-NUS College, awarded by NUS.
About 60 percent of students at Yale-NUS are Singaporeans and 40 percent are international students. In 2013, the admission rate dropped to 3% and the demographic remained consistent. Apart from Singapore University of Technology and Design, Yale-NUS is the only other college in Singapore to follow a holistic admissions process similar to that followed by Yale and other American universities. Like both Yale and NUS, Yale-NUS follows a need-blind admission policy and offers financial aid on a full-need basis. Yale-NUS also distributes scholarships to some admitted students based on academic merit.
Under the presidency of Richard Levin, Yale University began developing a "internationalization" strategy that included expanding financial resources for international students and study abroad programs, founding the Yale World Fellows and the Center for the Study of Globalization, and joining the International Alliance of Research Universities. Administrators at Yale began considering international campus expansion in 2006, and initially approached the United Arab Emirates about establishing an arts institute on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, developed in collaboration with the university's arts professional schools. After Yale indicated that it was not willing to offer Yale degree programs at the proposed institute, the project was dropped.
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