NUS Business School

For over 50 years, NUS Business School has offered a rigorous, relevant and rewarding business education to outstanding men and women from across the world. The School remains distinctive among the world's leading business Schools by offering the best of global knowledge with deep Asian insights, preparing students to lead Asian businesses to the forefront of the world economy and to help global businesses succeed in Asia.

Today, the School continues its tradition of attracting a diversity of smart and talented students to its broad portfolio of academic programmes, including BBA, MBA, Executive MBA, MSc and PhD programmes. It also offers a wide range of customised and open enrolment programmes in its Executive Education courses. Admission to NUS Business School is remarkably competitive, and we are proud of the exceptionally high quality of our students.The School has a distinguished international faculty educated in renowned universities including Harvard, Wharton, MIT, Oxford and many others. Known for their research quality and great teaching, our faculty members are committed in providing students a top-rate business education.

The School has consistently received top rankings in the Asia-Pacific region by independent publications and agencies, such as The Financial Times, Economist Intelligence Unit, and QS Top MBA, in recognition of the quality of its programmes, faculty research and graduates. In the Financial Times Global Rankings, the NUS MBA is ranked 32nd, while the NUS-UCLA Executive MBA and Asia-Pacific Executive MBA were ranked 5th and 25th respectively in 2015.In the biannual Forbes rankings for two-year MBA programmes, NUS Business School was ranked top in Singapore and Asia in 2013, and second among business Schools outside the United States. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has also ranked the School 12th in the world for accounting and finance.

The School is accredited by AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), endorsements that the School has met the highest standards for business education. The School is also a member of the GMAC Council, Executive MBA Council, Partnership in Management (PIM) and CEMS (Community of European Management Schools).

By invitation from the Board of Directors of GMAC (the administrative body for GMAT), the School has been representing the Southeast Asian region as a governing School of GMAC since 2000. The School is also a "Non-European" member of the international network for European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).

The School has also forged close links with other top universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia in the form of exchange programmes and joint academic collaborations. In addition, the School is an invaluable partner of the industry, with both sides making regular communications and collaborations so that they will remain relevant and be increasingly useful for each other.

As part of the National University of Singapore, a top globally ranked university, NUS Business School shares the University's global reputation for academic excellence in education, research and service. With NUS being a comprehensive university with disciplines in medicine, architecture, engineering, computing, law, social sciences, and more, we are in a unique position to leverage on the breadth and depth of the University, including accessing a vast and highly diverse student body of over 37,000 students on campus and a global network of over 30,000 alumni.

NUS Business School, one of the leading centres of business education in Asia-Pacific, has come a long way in a short time. The area of business administration as a proper academic field was first taught at the then University of Singapore in 1961. Back then, Business Administration was just a subject in the Department of Economics.

Four years later, in 1965, the Department of Business Administration was set up to meet the growing needs of a formal business education in Singapore. The Department began with a full-time staff strength of four. It quickly grew in size and scope. In 1969, it was merged with the Department of Accountancy, and the School of Accountancy and Business Administration was formed.

In 1980, another major reorganisation took place, when the University of Singapore and Nanyang University merged. With the merger of the two universities, the School became known as the Faculty of Accountancy and Business Administration. The Faculty comprised the Department of Accountancy as well as the Department of Business Administration. In 1983, the Faculty was restructured again, and the School of Accountancy and the School of Management were formed. Four years later, in 1987, the School of Accountancy was moved to the then Nanyang Technological Institute. Following this move, the Faculty's name was shortened to become the Faculty of Business Administration.

As Asia's leading business school, the School develops academic partnerships with top universities worldwide to provide students with opportunities to study abroad, enrich their learning experience and gain international exposure in order to become global citizens.Building upon the School's globally recognised reputation for expertise in education and research, successful academic partnerships have been established with more than 120 partner universities and schools across Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe. Our partner schools provide opportunities for the School's BBA and MBA students to broaden their outlook, expand their network and experience first-hand the cultural nuances and complexities in different economic environments.