Yale, NUS open first liberal arts college in Singapore

The success of the Yale-NUS College is also a success for Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

According to his speech at the launch of Yale-NUS College, Singapore University education system ranked 5th in the WEF Global Competitiveness report and 1st by the World Competitiveness Yearbook.

Yale-NUS College is a new venture for both sides. Understandably, there will be some complications because Singapore is a different social and political context from America. Both have different culure, values, norms and different balance between rights and responsibilities, the individual and society. But, PM Lee said that among Asian countries, Singapore is probably the least dissimilar in ethos to Western societies.

The Government will do its part to fund the Yale-NUS College which will enable the College to recruit the best faculty and pursue bold innovations in education.