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[[File:University Hall, National University of Singapore, February 2020.jpg|thumb|National University of Singapore, with a history dating back to 1905, is the oldest university in Singapore]]
This is a '''list of universities in Singapore'''.

The oldest university in Singapore is the [[National University of Singapore]], which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NUS - Founded by the community |url=https://www.nus.edu.sg/about/founded-by-the-community |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=www.nus.edu.sg}}</ref> The university along with the [[Nanyang Technological University]] are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National University of Singapore (NUS) |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/national-university-singapore-nus |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Our University Rankings |url=https://www.ntu.edu.sg/about-us/facts-figures/university-rankings |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=Corporate NTU |language=en}}</ref> Newer universities have been established by the Singaporean Government since 2000 that specialise in various sectors and in applied learning.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Autonomous universities |url=http://www.moe.gov.sg/post-secondary/overview/autonomous-universities |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=www.moe.gov.sg |language=en}}</ref> Singapore also has partnered and directly-operated campuses from foreign universities and other private institutions offering external degree programs from overseas institutions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Private Education Institution Graduate Employment Survey |url=https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/pei/ges |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=SkillsFuture SG |language=en}}</ref><ref name="mom.gov.sg">{{Cite web |title=Work pass exemption for foreign students |url=https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/work-pass-exemption-for-foreign-students |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=Ministry of Manpower Singapore |language=en}}</ref>

The university rankings included below are for reference only. Different university ranking publications use varying methodologies to rank universities<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Safón |first=Vicente |date=2013-11-01 |title=What do global university rankings really measure? The search for the X factor and the X entity |journal=Scientometrics |language=en |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=223–244 |doi=10.1007/s11192-013-0986-8 |issn=1588-2861}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023 |title=CWTS Leiden Ranking |url=https://www.leidenranking.com/information/indicators |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=CWTS Leiden Ranking |publisher=Leiden University Centre for Science and Technology Studies |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-08 |title=Understanding the Methodology: QS World University Rankings |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/world-university-rankings/understanding-methodology-qs-world-university-rankings |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Top Universities |publisher=Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2023 |title=METHODOLOGY FOR OVERALL AND SUBJECT RANKINGS FOR THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2024 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/the_2024_world_university_rankings_methodology.pdf |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |type=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Morse |first=Robert |last2=Wellington |first2=Sam |date=2022-10-24 |title=How U.S. News Calculated the 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/methodology |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities Methodology 2020 |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/methodology/arwu/2020 |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=ShanghaiRanking}}</ref> and cannot accurately calculate teaching performance, research quality and other abstract functions into a singular numerical composite.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9299/Statement-on-Global-University-Rankings.pdf |title=Statement on Global University Rankings |last=Independent Expert Group (IEG) |date=2023 |publisher=United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health |doi=10.37941/pb/2023/2}}</ref> University ranking methodologies have [[Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)|been criticised]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Muller |first=Seán M |date=2017-01-01 |title=Academics as rent seekers: distorted incentives in higher education, with reference to the South African case |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059316304436 |journal=International Journal of Educational Development |volume=52 |pages=58–67 |doi=10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.11.004 |issn=0738-0593|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bautista-Puig |first=Núria |last2=Orduña-Malea |first2=Enrique |last3=Perez-Esparrells |first3=Carmen |date=2022-01-01 |title=Enhancing sustainable development goals or promoting universities? An analysis of the times higher education impact rankings |journal=International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=211–231 |doi=10.1108/IJSHE-07-2021-0309 |issn=1467-6370|hdl=10251/190204 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Soudien |first=Crain |date=2014-05-05 |title=The Influence of Rankings and Incentive Systems on Academic Publishing in South African Universities |url=https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/1508 |journal=Education Policy Analysis Archives |language=en |volume=22 |pages=33–33 |doi=10.14507/epaa.v22n33.2014 |issn=1068-2341|doi-access=free }}</ref> for their subjectivity, bias and lack of consideration for institutional specialisations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jacqmin |first=Julien |date=2021-09-03 |title=Do ads influence rankings? Evidence from the higher education sector |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09645292.2021.1918642 |journal=Education Economics |language=en |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=509–526 |doi=10.1080/09645292.2021.1918642 |issn=0964-5292|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chirikov |first=Igor |date=2023-10-01 |title=Does conflict of interest distort global university rankings? |journal=Higher Education |language=en |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=791–808 |doi=10.1007/s10734-022-00942-5 |issn=1573-174X|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Gadd 523–523">{{Cite journal |last=Gadd |first=Elizabeth |date=2020-11-24 |title=University rankings need a rethink |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03312-2 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=587 |issue=7835 |pages=523–523 |doi=10.1038/d41586-020-03312-2|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Institutional competitiveness reinforced by ranking publication results also discourages  inter-institutional academic co-operation, non-anglophone thought and have been described a modern form of colonialism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shahjahan |first=Riyad A. |last2=Blanco Ramirez |first2=Gerardo |last3=Andreotti |first3=Vanessa de Oliveira |date=May 2017 |title=Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable: A Decolonial Reading of Global University Rankings |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/690457 |journal=Comparative Education Review |language=en |volume=61 |issue=S1 |pages=S51–S73 |doi=10.1086/690457 |issn=0010-4086|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Erkkilä |first=Tero |date=March 2014 |title=Global University Rankings, Transnational Policy Discourse and Higher Education in Europe |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejed.12063 |journal=European Journal of Education |language=en |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=91–101 |doi=10.1111/ejed.12063 |issn=0141-8211|hdl=20.500.12799/2908 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brankovic |first=Jelena |last2=Ringel |first2=Leopold |last3=Werron |first3=Tobias |date=2018-08-20 |title=How Rankings Produce Competition: The Case of Global University Rankings |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zfsoz-2018-0118/html |journal=Zeitschrift für Soziologie |language=de |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=270–288 |doi=10.1515/zfsoz-2018-0118 |issn=2366-0325|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Mustajoki |first=Arto |title=Measuring Excellence in Social Sciences and Humanities: Limitations and Opportunities |date=2013 |work=Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education |pages=147–165 |editor-last=Erkkilä |editor-first=Tero |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137296870_9 |isbn=978-1-137-29687-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lo |first=William Yat Wai |date=May 2011 |title=Soft power, university rankings and knowledge production: distinctions between hegemony and self‐determination in higher education |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050068.2011.554092 |journal=Comparative Education |language=en |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=209–222 |doi=10.1080/03050068.2011.554092 |issn=0305-0068|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9299/Statement-on-Global-University-Rankings.pdf |title=Statement on Global University Rankings |last=Independent Expert Group (IEG) |date=2023 |publisher=United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health |doi=10.37941/pb/2023/2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Anafinova |first=Saule |date=2020-10-01 |title=The role of rankings in higher education policy: Coercive and normative isomorphism in Kazakhstani higher education  |journal=International Journal of Educational Development |volume=78 |article-number=102246 |doi=10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102246 |issn=0738-0593|pmc=7452901 }}</ref><ref name="Gadd 523–523"/> The pursuit for higher rankings has also caused many universities globally to prioritise staff for research output over teaching skills and cause stress to high school students.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9299/Statement-on-Global-University-Rankings.pdf |title=Statement on Global University Rankings |last=Independent Expert Group (IEG) |date=2023 |publisher=United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health |doi=10.37941/pb/2023/2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-07-03 |title=Singapore schoolkids struggle with stress {{!}} New Straits Times |url=https://www.nst.com.my/world/2019/07/501277/singapore-schoolkids-struggle-stress |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=New Strait Times Business Times |publisher=Agence France-Presse (AFP) |language=en}}</ref>

== Publicly-funded local universities ==

=== Current ===
Singapore has seven publicly-funded universities.<ref name="UAS private">{{Cite web|url=https://www.moe.gov.sg/-/media/files/news/press/2022/annex-a---new-private-arts-university.pdf |title=UAS Frequently Asked Questions |website=MOE Singapore |access-date=17 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250517034044/https://www.moe.gov.sg/-/media/files/news/press/2022/annex-a---new-private-arts-university.pdf |archive-date=17 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SMU private 1">{{Cite magazine|author=<!-- not stated --> |date=October 2005 |title=At the top of the class |url= https://news.smu.edu.sg/sites/news.smu.edu.sg/files/wwwsmu/news_room/smu_in_the_news/2005/sources/NewMan_2005oct_2.pdf |magazine=New Man |location=Singapore |publisher=SMU |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250517031931/https://news.smu.edu.sg/sites/news.smu.edu.sg/files/wwwsmu/news_room/smu_in_the_news/2005/sources/NewMan_2005oct_2.pdf |archive-date=17 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="SMU private 2">{{Cite web|url=https://business.smu.edu.sg/global-master-finance-dualdegree/faq/general-information-old |title=General Information |website=SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business |date=17 May 2025 |access-date=17 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250517031223/https://business.smu.edu.sg/global-master-finance-dualdegree/faq/general-information-old |archive-date=17 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> Six of them are gazetted as autonomous universities, with the exception of the University of the Arts Singapore.<ref name="Autonomous Universities">{{cite web | title = Autonomous Universities | website = Ministry of Education, Singapore | url = https://www.moe.gov.sg/post-secondary/overview/autonomous-universities/ | access-date = June 23, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="New Private University of the Arts Singapore – Formed by Alliance Between NAFA and LASALLE – to Open in 2024">{{cite web |title=New Private University of the Arts Singapore – Formed by Alliance Between NAFA and LASALLE – to Open in 2024 |url=https://www.moe.gov.sg/news/press-releases/20220830-new-private-university-of-the-arts-singapore-formed-by-alliance-between-nafa-and-lasalle-to-open-in-2024/ |access-date=February 6, 2024 |website=Ministry of Education, Singapore}}</ref> Dates starred with an asterisk are the earliest antecedent institution. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" | University
!Acronym
! scope="col" | Type
! scope="col" | Established
! data-sort-type="number" | [[QS World University Rankings|QS rank]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-18 |title=QS World University Rankings 2026: Top global universities |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings |access-date=2025-09-23 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Academic Ranking of World Universities|ARWU rank]]<ref name="ShanghaiRanking">{{Cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=www.shanghairanking.com}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Times Higher Education World University Rankings|THE rank]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=World University Rankings 2025 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking |access-date=2025-09-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[US News & World Report|US<br />News<br />rank]]<ref name="usnews.com">{{Cite web |title=Best Global Universities in Australia - US News Education |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/australia |access-date=3 February 2024 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[CWTS Leiden Ranking|CWTS rank]]<br /><ref name="Studies CWTS">{{Cite web |last=Studies (CWTS) |first=Centre for Science and Technology |title=CWTS Leiden Ranking |url=http://www.leidenranking.com/ |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=CWTS Leiden Ranking |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| align="center" |[[National University of Singapore]]
| align="center" | NUS
| align="center" |Research intensive autonomous university
| align="center" |1905*
| align="center" |8
| align="center" |71
| align="center" |17
| align="center" |22
| align="center" |38
|-
| align="center" |[[Nanyang Technological University]]
| align="center" | NTU
| align="center" |Research intensive autonomous university
| align="center" |1981*
| align="center" |12
| align="center" |93
| align="center" |30
| align="center" |27
| align="center" |86
|-
| align="center" |[[Singapore Management University]]
| align="center" | SMU
| align="center" |Research intensive autonomous university
| align="center" |2000
| align="center" |511
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" |577
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |[[Singapore University of Social Sciences]]
| align="center" | SUSS
| align="center" |Autonomous university of applied learning
| align="center" |2005*
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |[[Singapore Institute of Technology]]
| align="center" | SIT
| align="center" |Autonomous university of applied learning
| align="center" |2009
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |[[Singapore University of Technology and Design]]
| align="center" | SUTD
| align="center" |Research intensive autonomous university

| align="center" |2009
| align="center" |519
| align="center" |901-1000
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" |302
| align="center" |1177
|-
| align="center" |[[University of the Arts Singapore]]
| align="center" | UAS
| align="center" |Collegiate university of the arts
| align="center" |2023
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
|}
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{{nowrap|'''[[Central_Area,_Singapore|Central Area]] universities:'''}}<br/>
{{nowrap|[[File:Yellow pog.svg|8px]] [[Singapore_Management_University|SMU]]<br/>
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=== Defunct ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" | University
! scope="col" | Type
! scope="col" | Established
! scope="col" | Defunct
! scope="col" | Comments
|-
| align="center" |[[Nanyang University]]
| align="center" |Private university
| align="center" |1956
| align="center" |1980
| align="left" |Defunct following merger with University of Singapore to form NUS
|-
| align="center" |[[SIM University]]
| align="center" |Private university
| align="center" |2005
| align="center" |2017
| align="left" |Defunct following restructuring to form SUSS
|-
|}

==Foreign institutions==
Foreign institutions are regulated by the [[Committee for Private Education]] (CPE). There are various accreditation and rating processes in Singapore including the [[Committee for Private Education#EduTrust Certification Scheme|EduTrust Certification Scheme]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=TPGateway {{!}} About EduTrust Certification Scheme |url=https://www.tpgateway.gov.sg/resources/information-for-private-education-institutions-(peis)/edutrust-certification-scheme/about-edutrust-certification-scheme |access-date=5 February 2024 |website=Training Providers Gateway}}</ref> Below is an incomplete list of institutions of higher learning that offer undergraduate and/or graduate programmes in Singapore.

===Local campuses of foreign universities===
The following private education institutions are local branches of foreign universities.<ref name="PEI GES"/> Institutions are listed alphabetically in the order of country of origin and dates starred with an asterisk are the earliest antecedent institution.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
! scope="col" | University
!Type
! scope="col" | Type
! scope="col" | Estab.
! data-sort-type="number" | [[QS World University Rankings|QS rank]]<ref>{{cite web |title=QS World University Rankings 2024: Top global universities |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings |website=Top Universities |access-date=28 November 2023 |language=en |date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Academic Ranking of World Universities|ARWU rank]]<ref name="ShanghaiRanking"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Times Higher Education World University Rankings|Times rank]]<ref name="World University Rankings">{{Cite web |date=2018-09-19 |title=World University Rankings |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[US News & World Report|US<br />News<br />rank]]<ref name="usnews.com"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[CWTS Leiden Ranking|CWTS rank]]<br /><ref name="Studies CWTS"/>
|-
| align="center" |Australia
| align="center" |[[Curtin Education Centre|Curtin University]]
| align="center" |Comprehensive
| align="center" |Private campus of public university
| align="center" |1900*
| align="center" |174
| align="center" |201-300
| align="center" |201–250
| align="center" |160
| align="center" |310
|-
| align="center" |Australia
| align="center" |[[James Cook University Singapore|James Cook University]]
|Comprehensive
| align="center" |Private campus of public university
| align="center" |1961*
| align="center" |445
| align="center" |301-400
| align="center" |351–400
| align="center" |324
| align="center" |698
|-
| align="center" |Australia
| align="center" |[[University of Newcastle (Australia)|The University of Newcastle]]
| align="center" |Postgraduate
| align="center" |Private subsidiary of public university
| align="center" |1951*
| align="center" |179
| align="center" |401-500
| align="center" |201-250
| align="center" |231
| align="center" |388
|-
| align="center" |France
| align="center" |[[Paris-Panthéon-Assas University]]
| align="center" |Specialised
| align="center" |Private law school of non-profit university
| align="center" |1100*
| align="center" |851-900
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
|}

=== Foreign universities operating under partnership with local universities ===
The following education institutions are operated under a partnership with local universities. Institutions are listed alphabetically in the order of country of origin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Overseas University Partners {{!}} Singapore Institute of Technology |url=https://www.singaporetech.edu.sg/about/overseas-university-partners |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=www.singaporetech.edu.sg |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jeyaretnam |first=Miranda |date=2022-03-07 |title="There is only one Yale-NUS, and now they have lost it": Students at Yale-NUS dissatisfied with NUS College planning process |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/07/there-is-only-one-yale-nus-and-now-they-have-lost-it-students-at-yale-nus-dissatisfied-with-nus-college-planning-process/ |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Yale Daily News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore - Dean's Message |url=https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/about/about-duke-nus |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=www.duke-nus.edu.sg}}</ref> Dates starred with an asterisk are the earliest antecedent institution.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
! scope="col" | University
!Abbrev.
!Partner
! scope="col" | Estab.
! data-sort-type="number" | [[QS World University Rankings|QS rank]]<ref>{{cite web |title=QS World University Rankings 2024: Top global universities |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings |website=Top Universities |access-date=28 November 2023 |language=en |date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Academic Ranking of World Universities|ARWU rank]]<ref name="ShanghaiRanking"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[Times Higher Education World University Rankings|Times rank]]<ref name="World University Rankings"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[US News & World Report|US<br />News<br />rank]]<ref name="usnews.com"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | [[CWTS Leiden Ranking|CWTS rank]]<br /><ref name="Studies CWTS"/>
|-
| align="center" |Germany
| align="center" |[[TUM Asia|Technical University of Munich]]
| align="center" |TUM Asia
| align="center" |Singapore Institute of Technology
| align="center" |1868*
| align="center" |28
| align="center" |59
| align="center" |30
| align="center" |79
| align="center" |102
|-
| align="center" |Switzerland
| align="center" |[[Singapore-ETH Centre]]
| align="center" |SEC
| align="center" |Singapore National Research Foundation
| align="center" |1855
| align="center" |N/A
| align="center" |N/A
| align="center" |N/A
| align="center" |N/A
| align="center" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |United Kingdom
| align="center" |[[Newcastle University]]
| align="center" |NUiS
| align="center" |Singapore Institute of Technology
| align="center" |1834*
| align="center" |129
| align="center" |201-300
| align="center" |168
| align="center" |156
| align="center" |292
|-
| align="center" |United Kingdom
| align="center" |[[University of Glasgow]]
| align="center" |UGS
| align="center" |Singapore Institute of Technology
| align="center" |1451
| align="center" |78
| align="center" |101-150
| align="center" |87
| align="center" |74
| align="center" |263
|-
| align="center" |United States
| align="center" |[[DigiPen Institute of Technology]]
| align="center" |DigiPen
| align="center" |Singapore Institute of Technology
| align="center" |1988
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |United States
| align="center" |[[Duke–NUS Medical School|Duke-NUS Medical School]]
| align="center" |Duke-NUS
| align="center" |National University of Singapore
| align="center" |2005
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" |501-600
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |United States
| align="center" |[[The Culinary Institute of America]]
| align="center" |CIA
| align="center" |Singapore Institute of Technology
| align="center" |1954
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
| align="center" |United States
| align="center" |[[Yale-NUS College]] (closing 2025)
| align="center" |Yale-NUS
| align="center" |National University of Singapore
| align="center" |2011
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
| align="center" data-sort-value="100000" |N/A
|-
|}

=== Local campuses of business schools and other institutions ===
This is a list of some non-local business schools and other institutions operating in Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institutes of Higher Learning |url=https://www.ica.gov.sg/reside/STP/apply/ihl |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=ICA |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia |url=https://singapore.unisg.ch/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=SGI-HSG |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
! scope="col" | University
!Abbreviation
! scope="col" | Type
! scope="col" | Established
|-
| align="center" |Switzerland
| align="center" |St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia ([[University of St. Gallen]])
| align="center" |SGI-HSG
| align="left"  |Public research intensive autonomous university
| align="center" |1898
|-
| align="center" |France
| align="center" |[[ESSEC Business School]]
| align="center" |ESSEC
| align="left"  |Private non-profit business school
| align="center" |1907
|-
| align="center" |France
| align="center" |[[INSEAD|INSEAD Asia Campus]]
| align="center" |INSEAD
| align="left"   |Private non-profit business school
| align="center" |1957
|-
| align="center" |India
| align="center" |[[S P Jain School of Global Management]]
| align="center" |SPJAIN
| align="left"   |Private business school
| align="center" |2004
|-
| align="center" |Switzerland
| align="center" |[[École hôtelière de Lausanne|EHL Hospitality Business School]]
| align="center" |EHL
| align="left"   |Private non-profit hospitality school
| align="center" |1893
|-
|}

== Private external degree providers ==
The following private education institutions offer [[external degree]] programmes (EDPs) with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees conferred by the institutions' partner universities.<ref name="PEI GES">{{cite web|url=https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/pei/ges|title=Private Education Institution Graduate Employment Survey 2022/23|publisher=CPE|access-date=11 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="mom.gov.sg"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Institution||Awarding body<!--When updating, please only add awarding bodies and not partners or other articulation agreements. This list was last updated on 7 February 2024.-->
|-
|Amity Global Institute<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Universities |url=https://amitysingapore.sg/our-universities/ |access-date=17 June 2023 |website=amitysingapore}}</ref>
|[[University of London]]; [[University of Northampton]]; [[Teesside University]]
|-
| Auston Institute of Management<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.auston.edu.sg |title=Engineering, Computing and Business Degrees & Diplomas |publisher=Auston |access-date=2015-08-11}}</ref> ||  [[University of the West of England]] 
|-
| BAC College (Singapore)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Courses » BAC SG |url=https://www.bac.edu.sg/courses/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=BAC SG |language=en-US}}</ref>|| [[University of London International Programmes|University of London]]
|-
|Beacon International College<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Partners {{!}} Beacon International College |url=https://beacon.edu.sg/our-partners/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=beacon.edu.sg}}</ref>
|[[Cardiff Metropolitan University]]; [[University of East London]]
|-
|DIMENSIONS International College<ref>{{Cite web |title=Full Time & Part Time Courses {{!}} DIMENSIONS |url=https://dimensions.edu.sg/academic-courses/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=dimensions.edu.sg}}</ref>
|[[Cardiff Metropolitan University]]; [[University of Derby]]; [[Wrexham University]]
|-
| [[East Asia Institute of Management (EAIM)]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=East Asia Institute of Management (EAIM) |url=https://www.eaim.edu.sg/en/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=EAST ASIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (EAIM) |language=en-gb}}</ref>|| [[Aston University]]; [[Cardiff Metropolitan University]]; [[De Montfort University]]; [[University of Essex]]; [[Edinburgh Business School|Herriot-Watt University]]; [[Queen Margaret University]]; [[Sheffield Hallam University]]
|-
| ERC Institute<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://erci.edu.sg/about-erc-institute/about-us/|publisher=ERC Institute|access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref> || [[Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University|Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University]]; [[University of Chichester]]; [[University of Greenwich]] 
|-
|[[Kaplan Singapore|Kaplan Higher Education Academy]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our University Partners {{!}} Kaplan Singapore |url=https://www.kaplan.com.sg/our-courses-university-partners |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.kaplan.com.sg |language=en}}</ref>||[[Birmingham City University]], [[Monash University]]; [[Murdoch University]]; [[Northumbria University]]; [[Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology|RMIT University]], [[Royal Holloway, University of London]]; [[University College Dublin]]; [[University of Essex]]; [[University of Portsmouth]]
|-
| [[London School of Business and Finance|London School of Business & Finance]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=LSBF {{!}} London School of Business and Finance Singapore |url=https://www.lsbf.edu.sg/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.lsbf.edu.sg |language=en}}</ref>||[[Manchester Metropolitan University]]; [[University of East London]]; [[University of Greenwich]]
|-
| [[Management Development Institute of Singapore]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Study in Singapore With MDIS {{!}} Private Education Institution in Singapore |url=https://www.mdis.edu.sg/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.mdis.edu.sg}}</ref>||[[Bangor University]]; [[Edinburgh Napier University]]; [[Leeds Beckett University]]; [[Northumbria University]]; [[University of Central Oklahoma]]; [[University of Roehampton]]; [[University of Sunderland]]; [[Teesside University]]
|-
| Nanyang Institute of Management<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-07 |title=Courses - Nanyang |url=https://nanyang.edu.sg/course/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |language=en-US}}</ref>||[[Abertay University]]; [[University of the West of Scotland]]; [[York St John University]]
|-
| [[PSB Academy]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Full-time & Part-time Courses in Singapore {{!}} PSB Academy |url=https://www.psb-academy.edu.sg/courses |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.psb-academy.edu.sg |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Coventry University]]; [[Edinburgh Napier University]]; [[Edith Cowan University]]; [[La Trobe University]]; [[Massey University]]; [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|The University of Newcastle, Australia]]; [[University of Canberra]]; [[University of Hertfordshire]]; [[University of Nottingham]]
|-
| [[Raffles Design Institute|Raffles College of Higher Education]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Success by Design! |url=https://raffles-college.edu.sg/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Raffles College of Higher Education |language=en-US}}</ref>|| [[Coventry University]] 
|-
| [[SDH Institute|SISH Institute]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=SISH Partners |url=https://sish.edu.sg/about-us/sish-partners/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=SISH Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>|| [[University of West London]]
|-
|[[Singapore Institute of Management]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=SIM GE Brochures & Prospectuses {{!}} SIM |url=https://www.sim.edu.sg/degrees-diplomas/programmes/brochures-prospectus |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) |language=en}}</ref>||[[La Trobe University]]; [[Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology|RMIT University]]; [[University at Buffalo|State University of New York at Buffalo]]; [[University of Birmingham]]; [[University of London International Programmes|University of London]]; [[University of Stirling]]; [[University of Sydney]]; [[University of Warwick]]; [[University of Wollongong]] 
|-
| [[Singapore Raffles Music College]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Partners {{!}} Singapore Raffles Music College – Music Institution |url=https://srmc.edu.sg/en/about-us/partners/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=srmc.edu.sg |language=en}}</ref>|| [[University of West London]]; [[University for the Creative Arts]]
|-
| TMC Academy<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bachelor's Degree |url=https://www.tmc.edu.sg/bachelors-degree |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=TMC Academy |language=en}}</ref>||[[University of Northampton]]
|}

==See also==

* [[Education in Singapore]]
* [[List of schools in Singapore]]
* [[Lists of universities and colleges by country]]

==References==
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