Singapore's university sector extends beyond NUS and NTU to six autonomous public universities with different balances of research, technology, business and applied education. English is the teaching language throughout, so international students enter the ordinary curriculum rather than a separate language track. The distinctive feature is financial as well as academic: the government Tuition Grant can reduce undergraduate fees, but recipients commit three years of their early career to full-time work for a Singapore-registered employer. Private institutions and overseas branch campuses sit outside that arrangement, making the choice partly about whether a public-university education tied to Singapore's labour market matches the purpose of the degree.
66,609 USD per year for medicine, 64,143 USD for dentistry[1]
144,255 USD per year for both
Four-year bachelor's at NUS, tuition only
about 64,940 USD
about 111,217 USD for arts and sciences, about 120,472 USD for computing or engineering
What you sign
A Tuition Grant Agreement committing you to a three-year bond: full-time work for a Singapore-registered entity after graduation[3]
Nothing beyond the fee
If the commitment is broken
Liquidated damages: the whole grant you received, plus the GST subsidy, plus 10% interest a year compounded at the end of each academic year[4]
Not applicable
Is the grant automatic?
No. International students indicate interest in it inside the admission form, the number available is limited and selection is competitive[5]
The default if you are not offered a grant or decline it
Postgraduate study
A separate MOE subsidy, programme by programme — and at research level the international rate carries its own service obligation or a Graduate Assistantship[6]
Many coursework master's and the MBA have no subsidised international rate at all
Living budget
A campus hostel runs 3,035-7,806 USD a year, plus about 4,552 USD for meals, transport, books and personal spending; off campus you pay the open market rate and find the room yourself[7]
Identical — the grant touches tuition only
Language, work rights, visa
English throughout; 16 hours of work a week in term time and no cap during vacation[8]; Student's Pass at 34 USD to apply plus 46 USD on issue[9]
Identical for both groups
Studying abroad doesn’t break the bank anymore
Universities for any budget
Scholarship options
Installment plans up to 2 years
from5,482 ₽per month
What Singapore buys you
Depth behind the two headline names
The QS World University Rankings 2027 place NUS 10th[10] and NTU 12th[11], and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put NUS 15th[12] and NTU 28th[13], so the standing is not a single-ranking artefact. The field behind them is moving fast: SUTD climbed 253 places to 266th and SMU 100 places to joint 411th between the QS 2026 and 2027 editions[14]. Four of the six autonomous universities now sit inside the world's top 450, which matters if NUS and NTU turn you down.
A subsidy that cuts the fee by roughly 40%
The MOE Tuition Grant is open to international students at all six autonomous universities, not only to citizens. A standard bachelor's at NUS or NTU costs 16,235 USD a year with it; without it, NTU charges 27,577 USD for a non-laboratory programme and 30,801 USD for a laboratory one[15], and NUS 27,804 USD[1]. Across four years that is a difference of about 45,518 USD — the single largest variable in a Singapore study budget. It is also the reason most international students here take the grant: in a September 2022 parliamentary reply, MOE put the share of international students at the autonomous universities paying full fees at around 20%, with the rest holding Tuition Grants[16].
English throughout, and often no English test at all
Every programme at the six autonomous universities is taught in English, so there is no local-language requirement and no language year to fund. For undergraduate entry the English test is frequently waived outright: NUS marks the English requirement "not required" for applicants with Indian Standard 12 from the CBSE or ISC boards, with an American high school diploma, or with any other school-leaving certificate[17], and NTU asks for IELTS, TOEFL or an equivalent only when English was not the medium of instruction at your school[18]. For applicants from India, Nigeria, the Philippines, the USA or the Gulf that removes the most expensive stage of a European application — but it is replaced by a different gate, described under admission requirements below.
A doctorate that pays rather than costs
The main PhD awards are open to every nationality and carry no bond. The NTU Research Scholarship covers the annual tuition fee and pays an international doctoral candidate 2,276 USD a month from January 2026, with up to 379 USD a month more after the qualifying examination, in return for teaching or laboratory duties under the Graduate Assistantship Programme[19]. The Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship pays an international candidate 3,262 USD a month plus tuition, a conference allowance of up to 3,793 USD a year and one-off IT and thesis allowances[20]. Self-funded doctorates are the exception here, not the norm.
Mostly international postgraduate cohorts at SMU
At Singapore Management University, 60% of postgraduate students came from abroad, representing 57 countries, against 11% of undergraduates from 33 countries, on figures updated in October 2025[21]. At SMU, then, a master's or PhD places you among internationals, while a bachelor's places you mainly among Singaporeans; other universities' cohorts should be checked in their own statistics.
Conditions attached to the low sticker price
Three years of your career, signed in advance
The Tuition Grant is not a gift. International students and permanent residents who take it must serve a three-year bond after graduation, working full time for a Singapore entity[3]. You apply for the grant in MOE's TG&S Portal once you have enrolled, and then sign the Tuition Grant Agreement together with two sureties who answer for your obligations[22]; in practice the decision is made when you accept your place, not when you graduate. Leaving early, changing course, withdrawing or buying your way out means liquidated damages, and MOE sets them at the whole grant you received plus the GST subsidy plus 10% interest a year, compounded at the end of each academic year[4]. On a four-year arts degree the grant is worth roughly 45,518 USD, so a buy-out several years in is a six-figure bill, not a fee.
Without the grant, Singapore is not cheap
Decline the bond and a standard NUS bachelor's rises to 27,804 USD a year, computing and engineering to 30,118 USD, SUTD to 47,093 USD, SMU law to 42,598 USD, and NUS Medicine or Dentistry to 144,255 USD a year — about 720,708 USD across the five-year MBBS[1]. NTU Medicine has no unsubsidised rate at all: the subsidised international fee of 69,226 USD a year is the only way in, so the bond is not optional there[15].
You are competing for roughly one seat in ten
International students have made up about 10% of the undergraduate population at the autonomous universities in recent years, on MOE's own account[23]. The grant is rationed too: SMU states plainly that the number of Tuition Grants for international students is limited and selection is competitive and based on merit[5].
Narrow work rights and a one-year window after graduation
A Student's Pass allows 16 hours of work a week in term time, without a work pass, and only if your institution appears on the Ministry of Manpower's approved list, which includes all six autonomous universities; during vacation the hour cap does not apply[8]. Singapore has no graduate work visa of the British or Australian kind, but it is not a hard exit either: a graduate of an institute of higher learning can apply to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority for a Long-Term Visit Pass of up to one year to look for a job[24], at 34 USD to apply and 46 USD on issue, processed within six weeks[25]. That pass buys time to search; it does not let you work. Only an Employment Pass or S Pass does, so job-hunting still belongs in your final year.
Singapore has four institutions in the QS World University Rankings 2027, all of them autonomous universities: NUS 10th, NTU 12th, SUTD 266th and SMU joint 411th, while SIT and SUSS are unranked[11]. The table below lists the Singapore institutions in UniPage's catalogue. Read the positions as a split rather than a ladder: two global research universities at the top, then specialists whose value depends on your subject more than on their place in the table.
Requirements for admission to universities in Singapore
At the six autonomous universities the gate for a bachelor's is rarely the English test. Selection rests on your school-leaving grades, any additional test your qualification triggers, and the interviews and written tests some faculties set, which NUS publishes programme by programme on its admissions calendar[26]. GRE and GMAT scores belong to master's and doctoral admission, not to the undergraduate route.
What each of the qualifications this article's readers actually hold has to clear at undergraduate level:
Indian Standard 12, CBSE or ISC. NUS asks for a good pass in five subjects including English, requires no standardised test and no English test, and admits holders to all programmes once the results are out[17]. NTU is blunter about the bar: at least 90% in every subject including English, excluding other languages and technical subjects. Neither wants JEE-Main, though NTU says a strong JEE-Advanced rank is valued[18].
Indian Standard 12 from a state board is listed as its own qualification at NUS, separate from CBSE and ISC, so check that entry rather than assuming the CBSE terms apply[27].
An American high school diploma. NUS requires a standardised test — SAT, ACT with Writing or Advanced Placement — alongside the diploma and transcript, and no English test[28]. The SAT is the gate here, not the language.
WAEC, the Nigerian NECO certificate and comparable African school certificates. This is the hardest route in the list. NTU requires a grade A in all subjects and a second qualification on top: either three or more Advanced Placement tests at 4-5, with AP Calculus BC compulsory for engineering and most sciences, or at least three GCE A-level subjects taken within twelve months[29]. NUS handles the same certificates under "other high school qualifications" and also requires a standardised test[30]. Budget a year for the AP or A-level component; it cannot be improvised in the application season.
The Philippine senior high school diploma falls under the same "other qualifications" heading at NUS and attracts the same standardised-test requirement. NTU treats the Philippine certificate as a named qualification of its own, so write to its admissions office for the current bar before assuming the general rule applies.
A-levels and the IB are read directly, with no additional test; their application windows are in the timeline below.
English. Required only where English was not the medium of instruction or was taken as a second language. NTU then accepts IELTS 6.0 overall with 6.0 in writing and speaking, PTE Academic 55, ACT with Writing at composite 30, C1 Advanced at 170, or an SAT of 1250; TOEFL iBT taken from January 2026 is read on the revised scale[18].
All documents are uploaded online, and originals are checked in person after arrival — NUS reserves the right to expel a student who cannot produce them. Of the three largest universities, only NUS has published its window for the August 2027 intake. It takes international qualifications from 16 December 2026 to 17 February 2027, and most international applicants hear by July 2027[26]. NTU's dates page still showed only the previous cycle as of 1 October 2026, which ran from 15 October 2025 to 19 March 2026 with closing dates that varied by qualification[31]. SMU's dates page also showed only the AY2026-27 cycle as of 1 October 2026; that cycle ran from 17 November 2025 to 19 March 2026, with outcomes notified between February and July[32].
No university in Singapore is tuition-free, and no scholarship scheme covers a whole undergraduate cohort. What the state does instead is subsidise the published price through the MOE Tuition Grant, so the number that matters is always a pair: what you pay with the grant, and what the same seat costs without it. Rates below are for students entering in 2026/2027, inclusive of the 9% GST; nationals of ASEAN states pay a lower subsidised rate than the one shown. NUS[1], NTU[15] and SMU fix the fee for each entering cohort for the normal length of the degree, so the rate you enter on is the rate you pay. None of the three had published rates for the August 2027 intake as of 1 October 2026, and SMU notes that fees for each new cohort are subject to annual revision[5].
Applied social sciences, business and law, flexible format for working adults
58,264 USD for a four-year degree
102,391 USD for a four-year degree
Two things change those numbers. Nationals of ASEAN member states sit in a cheaper subsidised tier — 13,693 USD a year at NUS and NTU instead of 16,235 USD[1], and 246 USD a credit at SIT instead of 282 USD — which is worth roughly 9,862 USD over a four-year degree if you hold a Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, Thai or Vietnamese passport. SIT's per-credit billing also has to be multiplied out before you can compare it with the rest: 180 credits at the subsidised rate is about 50,753 USD for a whole degree and 240 credits about 67,671 USD, against roughly 78,595-104,768 USD without the grant.
Tuition is not the budget, and housing is the part the universities will not solve for you. NUS budgets 3,035-7,806 USD per academic year for a campus hostel depending on hall and room type, and a further 4,552 USD for everything else — 1,972 USD meals, 1,669 USD personal spending, 607 USD transport, 303 USD books — while stating that off-campus accommodation is at market rate and that students must source it themselves[7]. Read that last clause as the real constraint: even at NUS and NTU a hall place is secure for the first year or two at best, as the next section shows, and any year you spend off campus is priced at the market rate.
Postgraduate study is a different subsidy, not an extension of the same one. NUS publishes a separate schedule of government-subsidised graduate programmes in which international students have their own subsidised rate for some coursework master's — public health at 21,204 USD a year against 75,712 USD unsubsidised — while others, including arts and social sciences, law and music, show no subsidised international rate at all; at research level the subsidised international rate is tied to a service obligation or the Graduate Assistantship Programme[6]. Self-funded professional degrees such as the NUS MBA sit outside the scheme entirely. Partial support exists — university scholarships, external sponsorships, funded doctoral places — but nothing in the system removes the fee for a whole intake, so treat every offer as something you pay for and then discount.
The grant is worth doing the arithmetic on rather than accepting by reflex. Over four years it saves roughly 45,518 USD, and a graduate on the Employment Pass floor earns that in under a year — that floor is 4,248 USD a month for applications until 31 December 2026 and 4,552 USD for new applications from 1 January 2027[34]. If you intend to start your career in Singapore anyway, the bond costs you nothing you were not already planning to spend. If your plan is to return home or move on to a third country straight after graduation, the same 45,518 USD is the price of keeping that option, and paying it up front is far cheaper than a buy-out later, which carries 10% compound interest on top.
The universities make different promises about where you will live, and the difference shows up in the second-year budget. NTU guarantees eligible undergraduates a hall place for their first two years of study, counted from the year of admission, provided they apply in the designated window; after that, allocation for senior students weighs the co-curricular points earned in campus life the year before[35]. NUS promises less: first-year international undergraduates who apply are prioritised for a hall or house place in their first year only, and from the second year they are assessed on the same criteria as local students, including a scheme in which student groups nominate residents and each offer runs for one semester[36]. SMU, a city-centre campus, has one residence of its own, Prinsep Street Residences, with room for up to 255 students[37], so an SMU budget should assume a private room unless you secure one of those beds.
Work experience is written into several degrees rather than left to you. Every SMU student completes a ten-week internship before graduating, and the Career Centre pairs each student with a career coach from the first day[38]. At SIT the Integrated Work Study Programme is compulsory in every SIT-conferred and SIT-joint degree: eight to 12 months of paid, programme-relevant employment, won through the employer's own competitive recruitment rather than assigned[39]. NTU's Career & Attachment Office runs credit-bearing local and overseas internships and a work-study degree pathway that alternates terms of study with terms of work[40]. The immigration rule behind all of this matters on a Student's Pass: beyond the weekly hour cap, you may work during term only in an internship or industrial attachment that counts towards your graduation requirements, and an extra attachment taken on a leave of absence needs a work pass[8].
Support on arrival is organised centrally at NUS, where an International Students Coordinating Office works on the wellbeing of international students and current students serve as Peer Connectors in the pre-arrival programme and international students' orientation[41]. Before you accept an offer elsewhere, ask the university's housing office the same two questions: how many years a hall place is secured for, and what happens to international students after that.
Polytechnics, junior colleges and UAS: the routes beside the six
Beside the six autonomous universities, three other kinds of institution matter to an international applicant, either as an entry route or as a specialist alternative[42]:
Junior colleges and Millennia Institute run the two-year (JC) or three-year (MI) course to the Singapore-Cambridge A-level, which NUS admits through its own window, later than the one for international qualifications[26]. International students can apply directly to a school in December, subject to vacancies and to meeting the school's criteria[43].
Polytechnics — Nanyang, Ngee Ann, Republic, Singapore and Temasek — award practice-based diplomas with industry attachments of six weeks to six months, and a diploma holder can be considered for university admission on the diploma itself; NUS runs a separate application window for Singapore polytechnic diplomas[26]. Selected diploma courses carry the Tuition Grant, with the same three-year bond as a degree[3].
Arts institutions.LASALLE College of the Arts and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts are now the founding colleges of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS), Singapore's first arts university, which welcomed its first students in August 2024[44]. Each college runs its own admissions for diploma and degree programmes, with degrees validated and conferred by UAS, in fields such as music, theatre, dance, interior design and fashion design, and you apply to the college directly. Degree applicants to an arts institution can also apply for the Tuition Grant, bond included, just as at the six[22].
The six autonomous universities are all public. Beyond the documents and test scores set out above, individual faculties add their own requirements — a portfolio, a written test, an interview — and the admissions office will confirm them if the programme page is unclear.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU). It provides education in engineering, science and technology. It has five colleges offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in various fields. The NTU also operates the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine .
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The university offers education in design, engineering, and architecture.
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). The main areas of study are science and technology. Students can choose programs that are implemented by the university independently or in partnership with foreign educational institutions. They emphasize practical training, close ties with industry and the combination of study and work, and tuition is billed per credit rather than per year.
Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) was reorganized into the sixth autonomous university of Singapore in 2017. The university provides applied education for graduates of schools and adults in the field of social sciences, business, science and technology. Admission weighs prior education and work experience, so school leavers and mid-career professionals often sit in the same classroom.
Before you pay a private college anything, run the statutory check rather than the marketing one. Every private education institution must meet the mandatory registration standards of the Enhanced Registration Framework[49], and EduTrust, a certification run by the sector's regulator, the Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA), sets higher bars on top, including protection of the fees you have paid[50]. For an international student EduTrust is not optional: only EduTrust-certified institutions can offer places to foreign students, so a college without it cannot get you a Student's Pass[51]. EduTrust status is searchable in the public register of institutions[52].
Several foreign institutions teach in Singapore through campuses of their own. The entries below were checked against each campus's own website on 1 October 2026.
NUS and NTU are Singapore's two members of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities[60], but for a student the exchange agreements each university signs matter more than network membership. NUS undergraduates can choose among more than 300 partner universities in over 40 countries on its Student Exchange Programme, and more than 2600 went abroad on it in AY2023/2024[61]. If a semester abroad is part of your plan, ask for the partner list in your subject before you accept an offer.
Choosing among Singapore's autonomous universities
Six institutions is a small enough field that you can decide on substance rather than on a shortlist heuristic, and in Singapore the decisions come in a fixed order. The bond comes first, the institution type second, the city's cost third; ranking position is the least useful of the four.
Decide on the Tuition Grant before you decide on a university. Everything else in the budget is small next to a three-year obligation to work for a Singapore entity, and the choice is effectively made at the moment you accept an offer. Three questions settle it. Do you want to start your career in Singapore? If yes, the bond is not a cost at all. Is your family able to fund the unsubsidised fee — 111,217 USD or more in tuition alone across four years at NUS? If not, the bond is not really optional either. And is the programme one where refusing the grant is even possible? At NTU, Medicine and the Renaissance Engineering Programme have no unsubsidised rate. Note also that the grant is applied for, not granted automatically: the supply for international students is limited and awarded on merit, so a plan that only works with the subsidised fee needs a fallback.
Then match the institution type to what the degree is for. The six are not six versions of the same thing. NUS and NTU are comprehensive research universities and the only route to medicine, dentistry, law or music at scale. SMU is a specialist in business, accountancy, economics, information systems, law and social sciences, teaches every class as a seminar, and sits in the central business district — which matters if internships during term are part of the plan. SUTD is small and built around design and engineering together, and its rise of 253 QS places in one year is the sharpest of any Singapore university. SIT is the applied university: industry placements are part of the curriculum, and it bills per credit, so its total depends on whether your degree runs 180 or 240 credits. SUSS is applied social sciences, business and law, with admission that weighs work experience and a format built for people studying alongside a job.
Price the city, not the fee. A subsidised place at NUS is 16,235 USD of tuition and roughly another 7,586-12,358 USD of hostel and living costs a year, and the university states plainly that off-campus housing is at market rate and your own problem to solve. Singapore has no cheap second city to retreat to; there is one campus market and it is expensive. If your funding only works with a guaranteed hall place every year, verify the accommodation policy of the specific university before you accept, not after.
Build the shortlist around the qualification you hold. This is where Singapore differs most from Europe or the UK. If you have CBSE or ISC results, NUS and NTU read them directly and you can apply in the same season you finish school. If you hold WAEC or a NECO certificate, you need a second qualification — Advanced Placement tests or A-levels — and that is a year of work, so the realistic plan is a 2028 intake with the extra exams taken in 2027. A US high school diploma needs a standardised test at NUS (SAT, ACT with Writing or AP), so book those sittings early and read NTU's entry page for its own terms. A reach, match and safe list in Singapore therefore looks like this: NUS or NTU as the reach, SMU or SUTD in your subject as the match, SIT or SUSS as the realistic third, and the genuine safety net in another country entirely, because there is no seventh autonomous university.
Understand what the private sector is and is not. Private colleges and foreign branch campuses fill the gap below the six, but their degrees are awarded by the partner university abroad, not by a Singapore autonomous university, and they sit outside the Tuition Grant, so the fee is paid in full — with no bond attached, which is occasionally the point. Before paying one anything, confirm its EduTrust status in the public register described above. The three mistakes applicants make here are in that order: taking the grant without reading the bond, assuming an English test is the barrier when the real gate is a standardised test, and treating a private college as an equivalent fallback when it is a different product.
Singapore's application sequence and its lead times
Nothing here runs in parallel. Each step gates the next, and the whole chain from deciding to apply to landing takes eighteen months if you hold a qualification Singapore reads directly, and closer to thirty if you do not.
Autumn 2026, if you hold WAEC or NECO: book the second qualification now. Three or more AP tests at grades 4-5, or three A-level subjects taken within twelve months in no more than two sittings. NTU requires the actual A-level or A2 results before June of the application year, and sets its own cut-off for AP score reports in mid-July, so the last usable sitting for an August 2027 entry is the spring 2027 series[29]. Miss it and you are applying for 2028.
Mid-October 2026: watch for NTU. Its previous cycle opened on 15 October and closed on 19 March, so expect a similar shape and check its dates page rather than waiting for an announcement.
16 December 2026 to 17 February 2027: the NUS window for international qualifications. This is the tight one and it is the binding deadline for most readers of this article. The IB window is the same; Singapore-Cambridge A-level applicants apply later, from 18 February to 19 March 2027.
Winter 2026-27: watch for SMU. Its previous cycle opened on 17 November and closed on 19 March, so expect a similar shape and check its dates page monthly rather than waiting for an announcement.
Spring 2027: results, then a three-day clock. Applicants sitting Advanced Placement tests, CBSE, ISC, the Gaokao HKDSE or STPM in 2027 must submit final results through the NUS Applicant Portal within three days of their release[26]. Have scanned copies and portal access ready before results day.
By July 2027: outcomes. Most NUS applicants with international qualifications hear by July; IB candidates from the May 2027 session hear by the third week of July. Acceptance is through the Applicant Portal by the deadline on your offer letter.
At acceptance: the Tuition Grant decision, and it is hard to reverse. You indicate interest in the grant when you apply for the degree and confirm it when you take up the place; the grant application and the Tuition Grant Agreement, with its two sureties, follow once you have enrolled.
May to June 2027: the Student's Pass. Apply through the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's online e-Service at least two months and not more than three months before the course begins — so for an August start, the window is roughly May to June. The processing fee is 34 USD and applications are normally decided within a week, or two if you also need an entry visa[62]. A further 46 USD falls due on issue, plus 23 USD for a multiple-journey visa if your nationality needs one, and the pass is completed in person by appointment with biometrics and, where required, a medical report[9].
June to July 2027: housing. Hall applications run on each university's own schedule and are separate from admission. Apply the moment your offer is accepted; this is the step that most often fails late.
August 2027: term begins, followed by in-person verification of your original documents on campus.
Final year, 2030 or 2031: the job search, not after it. If it has not produced an Employment Pass offer by graduation, apply to ICA for the Long-Term Visit Pass for graduates — allow six weeks for processing — and remember it permits a search, not work.
Questions applicants ask about Singapore
Can I study in Singapore without taking the Tuition Grant?
Usually yes. The grant is applied for rather than imposed, and paying the unsubsidised rate leaves you free of the three-year work obligation — 27,804 USD a year at NUS instead of 16,235 USD, for example. Two caveats. A few programmes, notably NTU Medicine and its Renaissance Engineering Programme, publish no unsubsidised rate, so the bond is built in. And the choice runs the other way too: grants for international students are limited and competitive, so you may not be offered one. You declare the choice when you accept the offer and it is difficult to reverse afterwards, so decide before you sign rather than in your final year.
Is there a post-study work visa?
Not a work visa, but there is a job-search pass. Singapore has no graduate work route comparable to the British or Australian one: to work you need an Employment Pass, which for a graduate aged 23 or under requires a job offer of at least 4,248 USD a month outside financial services and 4,704 USD within them, rising for new applications from 1 January 2027 to 4,552 USD and 5,007 USD[34]. The lower-tier S Pass starts at 2,504 USD a month (2,883 USD in financial services), and at 2,731 USD (3,035 USD) from the same date[63]. Without an offer in hand, the graduates' Long-Term Visit Pass described above buys up to a year to job-hunt, but not to work.
I finished 11 years of school. Can I still apply?
Check your certificate rather than your number of years. Neither NUS nor NTU sets a minimum count of school years on its pages for international qualifications. NTU lists school-leaving certificates country by country and marks each as accepted on its own or only with an additional qualification, such as Advanced Placement tests or GCE A-levels[29]. NUS asks holders of other high-school qualifications for their latest results, an explanation of the grading system and a standardised test: AP, ACT with Writing or the SAT[30]. If your certificate is not on either list, write to the admissions office before applying.
Do I have to pay for a PhD in Singapore?
Rarely. The main doctoral awards cover tuition, pay a monthly stipend and are open to all nationalities; the NTU Research Scholarship and the Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship are described under "A doctorate that pays rather than costs" above. For the NTU Research Scholarship you indicate interest inside the admission application rather than applying separately, so the two run together[19].
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