5 March 2021
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NUS Electrical Engineering – Top 5 in the World based on the QS World Rankings by Subject 2021

Electrical Engineering in NUS is one of the top 5 in the world based on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2021.

According to QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, NUS has been ranked among the top 10 in the world for Engineering subjects, and NUS was ranked number five in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.  Overall, NUS ranked 11th out of 1,000 universities worldwide in the rankings, making it the top ranked university in the Asia-Pacific region.

The rankings, compiled by QS, provide an independent comparative analysis on the performance of 13,883 individual university programmes, taken by students at 1,440 universities across the world.

For the QS 2021 subject rankings, NUS was placed among the world’s top 10 for each of the Engineering and Technology programmes it was ranked in.

NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost, Professor Ho Teck Hua, said, “We are delighted by the recognition that NUS continues to be among the top universities in Asia and the world. It is also heartening that the University was also placed among the world’s top-10 in all of the Engineering and Technology programmes it was ranked in, for the 2021 subject rankings. This is a wonderful achievement by our talented faculty members.”

Overall, NUS was placed in the top 20 for 28 out of the 37 programmes in which it was ranked.

Mr Ben Sowter, Senior Vice President of Professional Services at QS, said: “The consistent improvements made by Singaporean institutions in our rankings are the result of a decade of investment and strategising. NUS has the largest endowment of any university in Asia today. Advantaged by Singapore’s long-term preparation in their financial futures, and by a relentlessly international outlook, Singapore’s higher education is going from strength to strength.”

He added, “The QS rankings continue to demonstrate the relationship between funding, international outlook, and research performance – and Singaporean successes are entirely coherent with those established correlations.”

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