Summarized from ST
21 March 2015
A select group of engineering students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) will be able to study for a year in Oxford University from October this year.
NUS secured the year-long student exchange programme with Oxford last month after five years of discussions.
With this agreement, the faculty of engineering at NUS has become the only faculty in the world that has exchange programmes with both Oxford and the other renowned British institution, University of Cambridge.
NUS started a year-long student exchange with Cambridge in 2010, and has since sent six students there.
Each year, up to five NUS engineering undergraduates can study at Oxford, and up to two at Cambridge. The same number of engineering students from the British universities will do stints at NUS.
Professor Frank Wood, student exchange coordinator at Oxford’s department of engineering science, said NUS is a recognised leader in engineering and an obvious choice as its partner in Asia for its overseas programmes.
Students from the rival British universities may finally attend classes and work on projects together at NUS.
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