GLOBAL SCHOLAR+ TRACK
Student Exchange Programme (SEP)
In NUS College classrooms, you will learn about things happening in the wider world and we want your College experience to literally take you there. The Student Exchange Programme (SEP) aims to crystallise the foundational learning of global perspectives and world issues that happens in our classrooms, through an immersive and transformative experience at a partner university.
Through SEP, outgoing students will have the opportunity to live and learn in a completely different environment. That means not only exploring fresh perspectives and alternative approaches to your subjects of study, but also the chance to immerse yourself in new cultures, make new friends, and experience places that maybe only existed in a book, or on a screen.
NUS College students may apply for SEP either through NUS College and/or their degree-bearing faculty, but they must only accept one offer. In addition to University-wide exchange programmes, NUS College offers exclusive exchange programmes with the following partner universities to its students:
- Yuanpei College, Peking University
- Rikkyo University
- Seoul National University
- Lady Sri Ram College for Women
- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)
- Sciences Po
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Amherst College
- Barnard College
- Smith College
- Vassar College
- Wellesley College
Here are the academic considerations to take into account before you apply.
JOINING NUS COLLEGE ON EXCHANGE?
Welcome! NUS College hosts incoming students from Faculty-level exchange partnerships, as well as honours college students from University-wide partnerships.
We warmly welcome exchange students to join our tight-knit, collegial community, and aim to provide them with a holistic living and learning experience. Exchange students are guaranteed a room on-site at our residence, and are required to take a minimum of one NUS College course (maximum of two) per semester.
When you arrive, the NUS College Club will pair each exchange student with a buddy to help familiarise you with Singapore and NUS. We encourage all incoming students to participate in our activities for a full experience of NUS College residential life.
See our Global Relations Office’s Incoming Exchangers page for more information about NUS’ Student Exchange Programme.
NUS-Sciences Po / NUS-Waseda DDP
The NUS-Sciences Po Double Degree Programme (DDP) is one of the Global Pathways available at NUS College, and is currently the only one that requires application before Year 1. This programme allows you to obtain:
- A Bachelor of Arts/Social Sciences (Honours), conferred by NUS, Singapore, and
- A Bachelor of Arts, conferred by Sciences Po, France
You will spend your first two years at Sciences Po on the Le Havre, Menton or Reims campus, and the remaning two years at NUS, in the College of Humanities and Sciences and NUS College. The programme is exclusively compatible with the following majors:
- Economics
- History
- Political Science
- Sociology
The NUS-Sciences Po DDP expanded my wordlview, blending European social sciences with Singapore's socio-political contexts. Beyond academics, the programme fostered personal growth, teaching me resilience and self-care. Apply to the DDP for a transformative social science education, global connections, and unexpected personal growth!
NUS Overseas College
Want to gain global experiential learning and enterprising mindset before you even graduate? That is just one of the key benefits that NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) offers. NOC programme is all about providing students with the global experiential learning and entrepreneurial development to kickstart their own start-up journey.
With access to over 25 global innovative hotspots, while attending entrepreneurship courses at our renowned partner universities, students will be empowered with the entrepreneurial life skill and transformative mindset and skill sets to make a change in the world today. It is time to shape your future with NOC! More importantly, it is a hands-on international working experience with an extended time frame that truly gives you the breadth and depth to make it count – for both you and the start-up company you intern with. A three-month, six month- or year-long NOC stint can be counted towards fulfilling NUS College’s global pathways graduation requirement.
To find out if you are eligible for NOC and how to apply, go to the NOC webpage or email nocquery@nus.edu.sg.