22 Facts About Yale-NUS College

Yale-NUS College receives more than 10,000 applications annually and enrols 250 students per year, with an average acceptance rate of 5.

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.

In 2012, Yale-NUS published its policy on academic freedom and non-discrimination, which states that “the College upholds the principles of academic freedom and open inquiry, essential core values in higher education of the highest calibre.

Faculty and students in the Yale-NUS College will be free to conduct scholarship and research and publish the results, and to teach in the classroom and express themselves on campus, bearing in mind the need to act in accordance with accepted scholarly and professional standards and the regulations of the Yale-NUS College.

The closure of Yale-NUS College was initiated by NUS President Tan Eng Chye, who approached Yale President Peter Salovey in July 2021 with the decision, surprising Yale administrators who "were confident that Yale-NUS was living up to its ambitions".

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In Peter Salovey's statement on the shutdown, he expressed a wish for Yale-NUS College to continue, stating that Yale-NUS College is “a unique and remarkable living and learning experience in Singapore.

Admission to Yale-NUS was based on each student's prior achievement and promise for success at the college.

Yale-NUS College had a financial aid programme, which offers substantial support for students from a variety of backgrounds.

Yale-NUS College targeted a class size of around 250 students; this threshold was met with the Class of 2022.

Yale-NUS College employs a holistic approach in evaluating applicants: while academic achievement as reflected in examinations grades is a primary consideration, interviews, recommendations, essays and extracurricular accomplishments are given significant weight in the process.

Yale-NUS College common curriculum is a set of interconnected courses designed to provide all students with a shared, intensive exploration of themes and topics ranging across all the academic disciplines, from science to the humanities.

The fields correspond to Yale-NUS College's existing majors, with the exception of Philosophy, Politics and Economics and the Double Degree Programme with Law.

Yale-NUS College has over 50 student organisations for students to build on their interests or pursue new passions.

Yale-NUS College has a number of student newspapers, magazines and journals.

Publications include The Octant, Yale-NUS College's most established publication, The Mocktant, its satirical counterpart, Tones, a multilingual magazine, and the Yale-NUS College Society for Academic Research, which publishes academic journals.

Yale-NUS College's campus was awarded the Green Mark Platinum Award from the Building and Construction Authority in 2013, the Landscape Excellence Assessment Framework certificate in 2014, the International Architecture Award in 2016.

Yale-NUS College has its own Alumni Affairs Council and is working to establish a Yale-NUS College Club of Singapore.

Since graduating its first class in June 2017, Yale-NUS College alumni have won several post-graduate awards, including two Rhodes Scholars, two Fulbright Scholars, two Schwarzman Scholars.

The orange-and-blue mascot, colours of Yale-NUS College, found ready acceptance as it encapsulates the core identity of a young academic institution in quick and confident ascension, ready to take on the world.

In 2015, Yale-NUS College became the first higher education institution in Singapore to offer gender neutral housing to students.

College received increased media scrutiny in response to student calls for the resignation of Chan Heng Chee, a Yale-NUS Governing Board Member and Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large.

Closure of Yale-NUS College, announced in 2021, has generated discussions on the future of transnational higher education, with Kevin Kinser, head of education-policy studies at Pennsylvania State University, being among analysts who expressed surprise at the dissolution of the collaboration.