Special Programmes

The Senate may approve different requirements and provisions for the following special graduate programmes.

The Double Degree Programmes (DDP) provides opportunities for students to graduate with two degrees from two different Faculties/Schools within NUS. Double degree coursework programmes normally allow some courses taken to be double counted towards the requirements of both degrees, thus allowing the student to complete the two degrees in a shorter period of time than it would take to complete both degrees separately.

The following are the Double Degree Programmes (Graduate) currently available:

 Faculties /Schools  Graduate Double Degree Programmes
NUS Business School & Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Faculty of Law & Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

These special degree programmes with premier overseas universities provide our students with further academic challenges and the opportunities to learn alongside other brilliant students in cross-cultural settings.

Besides collaborations on Double Degree Programmes (DDP) in formats as described in the other section, Joint Degree Programmes (JDPs) are also introduced. A JDP combines the strengths of both NUS and the partner university, and integrates international experience fully into a student's studies and research. Students will be jointly taught, supervised, assessed and jointly awarded a degree. The degree scroll bearing the crests and official signatories of both universities will be a doubly validated qualification.

The tables below show the various DDPs and JDPs that are currently available:

  1. Double Degree Programmes with Overseas Universities
    NUS Schools/ Faculties Overseas Universities Degrees Offered
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Peking University
    • Master of Arts by Research in Chinese Language
    NUS Business School Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
     Peking University (PKU), Guanghua School of Management  
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management

     

    Yale University, School of Management
    Global Alliance in Management Education (CEMS)
    Renmin University, China
    School of Business (RBS)
    College of Design and Engineering Tianjin University
    • Master of Science (Chemical Engineering), NUS and Master of Science (Chemical Engineering), Tianjin University
    Faculty of Law University of Geneva, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    Faculty of Science Peking University, School of Environment & Energy
    • Master of Science (by Research), NUS and Master in Environmental Engineering, Peking University
    Tianjin University
    • Master of Science (Chemical Sciences) and Master of Science (Chemistry), Tianjin University
    Tianjin University
    • Master of Science (Physics for Technology), NUS and Master of Science (Physics), Tianjin University
    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Partners in the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN)
    • Columbia University (CU), School of International and Public Affairs
    • London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
    University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy
    John Hopkins University
    NUS Risk Management Institute (RMI) Peking University, HSBC Business School
  2. Joint Degree Programmes with Overseas Universities 
    NUS Schools/ Faculties Overseas Universities Degrees Offered
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

     

    University of Edinburgh, College of Humanities and Social Science
    King’s College London (KCL), School of Arts & Humanities and School of Social Science & Public Policy
    School of Computing
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM)
    • NUS-IITs Joint PhD
    College of Design and Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) (TU/e)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM)
    Institution Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs (IFP School)
    • NUS-IFP Joint Master of Science in Petroleum Projects and Offshore Technology
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
    NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Karolinska Institute (KI)
    Faculty of Science Technical University of Munich (Technische Universitat Munchen) (TUM)
    King’s College London (KCL), Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (KCL-FoLSM) and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK)
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM)
    • NUS-IITs Joint PhD
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Duke-NUS Medical School Duke University
    Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine King’s College London (KCL), Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (KCL-FoLSM) and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)

Apart from JDP with overseas partner university, NUS also integrates with local universities where students will be jointly taught, supervised, assessed and jointly awarded a degree. The degree scroll bearing the crests and official signatories of both universities will be a doubly validated qualification.

Currently, we offer the following Joint Degree Programmes with a local university:

NUS Schools/ Faculties Local Universities Degrees Offered
College of Design and Engineering              Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

For graduate students, concurrent degree programmes (CDPs) typically involve a combination of a Master's degree and a PhD from the same Faculty or from two different Faculties. Such programmes allow a student to pursue the two degrees concurrently. Normally, the programme structure would enable a student to graduate in a shorter period of time with both degrees, than if each degree was to be pursued separately.

The following CDP within NUS is currently being offered:

Faculties /Schools Degrees Offered
NUS Graduate School (NUS GS) and
NUS Business School
  • PhD (in Science, Engineering, or Life Sciences) and MBA

Clinical Degree Programmes usually require students to complete coursework, a thesis and supervised clinical training practicum.

The following Clinical Degree Programmes are currently being offered:

Faculties /Schools Degrees Offered
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Duke-NUS Medical School
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

A professional doctorate degree is designed for professionals who wish to deepen and advance their professional practice and career. It aims to develop researching professionals and is more appropriate for those pursuing professional rather than academic careers since it is based on industrial rather than academic research and development.

The following Professional Doctoral Programmes are current being offered:

Faculties /Schools Degrees Offered
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych)
College of Design and Engineering
Faculty of Science