1. NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1955 with funds from millionaires down to the humble trishaw rider, we began as Nanyang University, a university created by the people, for the people. More than half a century later, NTU stands as a worthy successor on the original Yunnan Garden campus, with additional presence in other parts of Singapore, and in China, Europe, India and the United States. We aspire to nurture entrepreneurial leaders through a broad education in diverse disciplines.
While dominated by one of the largest engineering colleges in the world and a top-ranked business school, we have expanded our offerings considerably with the establishment of the College of Science and the College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences. The Yunnan Garden campus is now a cosmopolitan hub with 23,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate students from across the globe. Today, NTU is ranked among the world’s top 100 universities, which places it in the top 1% of universities globally.
As a multi-cultural research university, we are reaching out to the key regions of the world – the United States, Europe, China, India, and beyond, establishing a strong international reputation that has drawn some of the world’s finest researchers and academics to our shores. Today, we have 11 Nobel laureates on the Board of our Institute of Advanced Studies and academic leaders such as Provost Bertil Andersson, a Trustee of the Nobel Foundation. Many other faculty members of high world reputation have joined us, one of whom is eminent geologist Kerry Sieh, who moved from Caltech to NTU to head the Earth Observatory of Singapore, building the Earth Sciences discipline here. Bringing a formidable one-two punch to NTU’s initiatives in New Media are Vibeke Sorensen, the former Chair of the Department of Media in the College of Arts & Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, founding Director of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. Prof Sorensen chairs our pioneering art, design and media school, while Prof Magnenat-Thalmann heads the multidisciplinary Institute for Media Innovation.
NTU students benefit from our broad-based education, internship opportunities, global experience and undergraduate research projects. Our Global Immersion Programme offers international experience of up to a year in two locations. The locations include cities and universities in the United States, Europe, China, India, or Vietnam. Vibrant student activities provide opportunities for leadership and team-building.
We invite you to come stroll around our garden campus of gently rolling hills. Come experience for yourself the vibrant campus community. Join the fun and games of our student residents and interact with the hundreds of international faculty living on campus.
The main campus is a 200-ha residential, garden campus located in the south-western part of Singapore, near the Jurong West Extension area. This campus is easily accessible by two expressways, the Pan-island Expressway (PIE) and Kranji Expressway (KJE). It is also near the Boon Lay bus interchange and the Boon Lay Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station.
NTU’s second campus is located at NTU@one-north, right next to the Biopolis, Singapore's biomedical research hub.
2. HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Established
1636Faculty
About 2,100 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitalsStudents
Harvard College — About 6,700Graduate and professional students — About 14,500
Total — About 21,000
School color
CrimsonLiving alumni
More than 323,000, over 271,000 in the U.S., nearly 52,000 in some 201 other countriesNobel laureates
44 current and former faculty membersMotto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)Real estate holdings
4,979 acresLibrary collection
About 16.2 million volumesFaculties, schools, and an institute
Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units — ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.Undergraduate Cost (2010-2011 academic year)
Tuition — $38,416Total including room, board, student service fees — $50,724