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NTU has a lineage with roots that date back to 1955, when Nanyang University (Nantah), the first Chinese-language university outside China, was set up with donations from people of all walks of life from Singapore and the region. The idea of establishing such a university was first mooted by Mr Tan Lark Sye and he himself donated $5 million towards its establishment. The lush university grounds - the Yunnan Garden campus - was donated by the Hokkien Association.

In 1980, Nanyang University merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore. Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) was established on the same campus in 1981 with government funding to educate practice-oriented engineers for the burgeoning Singapore economy. Three schools of Engineering were formed and NTI was named "one of the best engineering institutions in the world" by the Commonwealth Engineering council in 1985. NTI admitted its first batch of 582 engineering students in July 1982. As the Institute developed, courses other than engineering were offered over the years—Accounting (1987), Business, Computer Engineering (1989), Material Engineering, Arts with Diploma in Education and Science with Diploma in Education (1991).

In 1991, NTI was reconstituted and became Nanyang Technological University with the absorption of the National Institute of Education, the only tertiary institute for teachers in Singapore. The alumni rolls of the former Nanyang University were transferred to NTU in 1996.

In 2005, NTU celebrated her golden jubilee. The 50th Anniversary celebrations marked the unification of the three chapters of NTU's history - Nanyang University, Nanyang Technological Institute and the National Institute of Education.

NTU opened three new schools in 2005. They were:

• The School of Art, Design and Media - Singapore's first professional art school offering degree courses in art, design and interactive digital media
• The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, offering programmes in Chinese, Economics, English, Psychology and Sociology
• The School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), with the Divisions of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), Physics and Applied Physics (PAP), and Chemistry and Biological Chemistry (CBC), offering direct Honours programs and graduate degrees leading to the PhD in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

In April 2006, NTU became an autonomous university.

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, named in memory of one of the founding fathers of Singapore, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, was inaugurated in January 2007. An important component of this autonomous school is the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, recognised as a world authority on terrorism.

In April 2007, Professor Bertil Andersson assumed office as NTU's Provost. Since January 2004, Professor Andersson has been the Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation (ESF). In early 2005, he was elected Vice-President of European Research Advisory Board (EURAB). Professor Andersson is now a Trustee of the Nobel Foundation.

NTU's second campus in Singapore, NTU@one-north and the NTU Alumni Clubhouse was officially opened by the President S.R Nathan in May 2007. The presence of NTU in the heart of the Biopolis and Fusionopolis R&D hubs was strategic - it enabled the university to establish itself as a member of the one-north research community. The one-north city campus serves as a home for all of NTU's alumni, and facilitates continuing education through programmes offered by the Centre for Continuing Education and Confucius Institute. At the opening, NTU President Dr Su Guaning announced that a graduate school is being planned at one-north. The graduate school will home in on bio-engineering research and boost NTU's collaboration with the area's research institutions.

校园

The Yunnan Garden Campus, with its lush landscape and undulating terrain, is located in the south-western part of Singapore, some 25 km from the city-centre. The original part of the campus was built in 1986 and the campus buildings are laid out on a master plan drawn up by architect Kenzo Tange.

Members of the university community study and work in the laboratories, lecture theaters and tutorial rooms. The School of Art, Design and Media has grassy-sloped roofs mimicing the rolling hills of the garden campus.

The campus has an e-learning infrastructure on top of a wired and wireless network setup. Seminars and lectures are supported by facilities that allow multi-media presentations, video-conferencing and communication between lecture theatres and venues.

Staff and students can choose to live in quarters and residential halls within the NTU Campus, and have access to leisure and recreational facilities. Students are able to choose from single or double-sharing rooms, though there have been proposals of triple room sharing.

In late 2000, NTU's National Institute of Education shifted into its new $400 million campus at the NTU grounds.

Colleges, schools and institutes

NTU has four colleges, comprising 12 schools. The College of Engineering, with six schools focused on technology innovation, enjoys wide renown and ranks fourth in the world in engineering publications. The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has Singapore's first professional art school, the Humanities and Social Science School, and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. The school is named after the late Dr Wee Kim Wee, a former President of Singapore who was a journalist and diplomat.

College of Engineering

College of Engineering website

• School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE)
• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
• School of Computer Engineering (SCE)
• School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
• School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
• School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

College of Science

• School of Biological Sciences (SBS)
• School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS)

Nanyang Business School

• Nanyang Business School (NBS)

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

• School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)
• Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (SCI)
• School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)

Autonomous Entities

• National Institute of Education (NIE)
• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Institutes and Centres

• Confucius Institute
• Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management
• Institute of Advanced Studies
• Lien Chinese Enterprise Research Centre
• Nanyang Technopreneurship Center

Research Institutes and Centres

NTU has multi-country programmes and initiatives with institutions worldwide. Some examples of key partners include MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Caltech, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University; world-class universities in Asia such as Beijing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Waseda, IIT of India; and European universities like Cambridge University, Imperial College London, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Karolinska Institutet and Technische Universität München.

Research Centres within Schools

• Asian Business Case Centre (AsiaCase.com)
• Asian Commerce and Economics Studies Centre (ACES)
• Advanced Design and Modelling Laboratory
• Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
• Centre for Accounting and Auditing Research (CAAR)
• Centre for Advanced Information Systems (CAIS)
• Centre for Advanced Numerical Engineering Simulations (CANES)
• Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL)
• Centre for Cultural Intelligence (CCI)
• Centre for Research in Financial Service (CREFS)
• Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM)
• Centre for Transportation Studies (CTS)
• Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (CCLC)
• Drug Discovery Centre
• Economic Growth Centre
• Human Resource Round Table (HARRT)
• Information Management Research Centre (IMARC)
• Nanyang Centre for Supercomputing and Visualisation (NCSV)
• Parallel and Distributed Computing Centre (PDCC)
• Singapore Internet Research Centre
• Centre for Multimedia and Network Technology

Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

• Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering Cluster (BPE Cluster)
  • Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (BMERC)
  • Centre for Biotechnology (CBT)
  • Centre for Chiral and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CCPE)
  • Computer-integrated Medical Intervention Laboratory (CIMIL)
  • Physiological Mechanics Laboratory (PML)

• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Cluster (NanoCluster)
  • Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC)
  • Facility for Analysis, Characterisation, Testing and Simulation (FACTS)
  • Microelectronics Centre (MEC)
  • MicroMachines Centre (MMC)
  • Photonics Research Centre (PhRC)
  • Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (PEN) Centre

• Intelligent Devices and Systems Cluster
  • Centre for Computational Intelligence (C2i)
  • Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems (CHiPES)
  • Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (CHFE)
  • Centre for Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS)
  • Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM)
  • Centre for Mechanics of Micro-Systems (CMMS)
  • Robotics Research Centre (RRC)

• Advanced Computing and Media Cluster
  • Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAMTech)
  • Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre (IERC)
  • BioInformatics Research Centre (BIRC)

• InfoComm Cluster
  • Network Technology Research Centre (NTRC)
  • Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre (PWTC)
  • Centre for Multimedia and Network Technology (CeMNet)
  • Centre for Signal Processing (CSP)
  • Centre for Information Security (CIS)

Other Institutes and Centers

• Centre for Research on Small Enterprise Development (CRSED)
• Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC)
• Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS)
• Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS)
• Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE)
• Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC)

Joint Centres with External Organizations

• Energetic Materials Research Centre (EMRC)
• Intelligent Systems Centre (IntelliSys)
• NTU-CIDB Centre for Advanced Construction Studies (CACS)
• NTU-MINDEF Protective Technology Research Centre (PTRC)
• NTU-MPA Maritime Research Centre
• NTU-NEA Environmental Engineering Research Centre (EERC)
• NTU-PWD Geotechnical Research Centre (GRC)
• NTU-SGI Centre for Graphics and Imaging Technology (CGIT)
• Satellite Engineering Centre (SEC)
• Temasek Laboratories@NTU
• Thales@NTU

The Nanyang Chronicle

Main article: Nanyang Chronicle

The Nanyang Chronicle is the campus' largest print and web news outlet, with a print circulation of approximately 15000. Serving primarily NTU staff and students, the Chronicle is distributed across the campus on newsstands and is published once every three weeks. It is run entirely by a student team of editors with guidance from teacher advisors from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI).

It is first published in July 1994 with the aim of providing timely campus news and information, as well as being the voice of the campus population. The paper also provides practical training for undergraduates who are keen to work in the field of journalism after graduation.

As of 2010, the chief editor is Shereen Naaz Charles and the managing editor is Elizabeth Law.

Internet learning on 校园

The University is connected to the Internet. All the facilities and resources available over the Internet are accessible by anyone on the campus network. The campus network, which links together all computing systems on the campus, is managed by the University's Centre for IT Services (CITS).

To supplement the fixed-line campus network, NTU implemented a campus-wide wireless network in 2000. This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabits per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection.

NTU provides e-learning services via edveNTUre. edveNTUre, based on BlackBoard technology, provides the framework and eco-system for learning and teaching. Besides providing a repository of lecture recordings, lecture notes, it also facilitates learning activities for collaboration, discussion, assessment and project work. During term time, the usage typically by faculty and students exceeds nine-million page views weekly (Jan 2010).

Extra-curricular activities

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Since its inauguration 19 years ago, the Nanyang Technological University Cultural Activities Club (CAC) has evolved into one of the largest student bodies on campus. The CAC is an umbrella organization for 21 member clubs and manages large-scale projects such as the NTU Talentime – Impresario and the annual Nanyang Arts Festival, NTU’s version of the Singapore Arts Festival. The clubs have approximately 2,000 students involved, either in performing or event management roles. Coupled with performing alumni of more than 500 members, the CAC boasts of membership strength of at least 2,500.

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