Nanyang Technological Institute

Nanyang Technological University

Universiti Teknologi Nanyang  (Malay) 南洋理工大学 (Chinese) நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்ப பல்கலைக்கழகம் (Tamil)
Former name	Nanyang Technological Institute (1981-1991)
Type	Autonomous university
Established	1981 (Nanyang Technological Institute) 1991 (Nanyang Technological University)
Endowment	S$2.3 billion (US$1.8 billion)
Chancellor	President Halimah Yacob
President	Professor Bertil Andersson
Provost	Professor Freddy Boey
Academic staff	1,660
Administrative staff	5,647
Undergraduates	24,300
Postgraduates	8,900
Location	Singapore 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139Coordinates: 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139
Campus	2.0 km2 (0.77 sq mi)
Colours	University Red      School Blue
Affiliations	WA, ASAIHL, AUN, ACU, DAAD, Global Alliance of Technological Universities
Website	www.ntu.edu.sg

The Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU) is an autonomous university in Singapore. NTU is consistently ranked amongst the world's best universities in all of the major college and university rankings and is regarded as one of the top universities in Asia. In the 2018 QS World University Rankings, NTU was ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Asia, surpassing rival university National University of Singapore for the very first time. In the 2018 Quacquarelli Symonds Asia University Rankings, NTU rose to 1st in Asia, displacing NUS which dropped to 2nd place.

NTU is a comprehensive and research-intensive university, with over 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The University is organized into eight colleges and schools. They are the College of Engineering, College of Science, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Business School, and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine - set up jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to several autonomous institutions including the National Institute of Education, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Institute on Asian Consumer Insight, and the College of Professional and Continuing Education. NTU's strongest faculties are in engineering and business. The NTU College of Engineering was ranked 2nd and 4th in the world by both the Academic Ranking of World Universities and QS World University Rankings respectively, and 1st in Singapore. NTU's Nanyang Business School is Singapore's top business school, having emerged 24th globally (1st in Singapore) in the Financial Times ranking and 1st in Singapore for 13 consecutive years in The Economist rankings.