Why NUS BBA

"NUS Business School has enriched my university life and groomed me to be both a professional and a leader. With an excellent and conducive learning environment, it has given me the opportunity to realise my full potential. Along with great support from the NUS Business School Career Services, I was able to secure internships with prestigious professional firms and globally renowned multinational corporation. completed a total of 3 internships with KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and General Electric. The valuable skills and internship experiences will enable me to gain an edge in the dynamic and competitive employment market. The BBA experience has empowered me with the ability to open thousands of doors.”
~ Leo Wei Ling, Year 4 Bachelor of Business Administration (Accountancy) with Honours

In NUS Business School, we seek students who, among other things, demonstrate a strong sense of EQ, drive to pursue academic and all-round excellence in their course, and show good communication and leadership skills.

We intend our NUS BBA to be the magnet in this part of the world for the most promising burgeoning leaders and managers; we are creating a communal hothouse for the bests to mingle, learn and grow together. While designing the ideal milieu for each Bizader's social, intellectual and leadership developments, we are also ensuring that Biz will be the consummate collegiate talent community within which to build lifelong relationships.

We wish to be associated with the community of individually most valuable alumni -- being the most cherished professionals out there and having the strongest ties back to Biz. We are therefore always trying to attract the most enriching professors, the most engaging administrators and the most enterprising students to constitute a select and intimate circle of future movers and shakers of economies, societies and academia.

We are confident that you will be drawn by the following hallmarks of NUS' BBA program.

Recognized

NUS is where heads of state, celebrated dignitaries and eminent scholars visit. With its high international rankings and memberships in leading university networks, our national university is known worldwide; the Business School is also ranked highly and belongs likewise to pre-eminent Business-school networks. We are the preferred partner in this part of the world for leading Business schools elsewhere, and are regularly invited to scores of international competitions and conferences. The BBA Program has a long history and is recognized by major corporations in this region and beyond. It also has a world-class reputation and is accepted for entry into all relevant top graduate schools globally. An NUS BBA calling card is well recognized universally.

Rich

Capitalizing on NUS' richness as the only comprehensive university in Singapore, our BBA/BBA(Acc.) students can take modules (e.g., Law, Science, Engineering, Medicine, Humanities, Languages, Music and Public Policy) from many diverse faculties. Bizaders may also pursue Double Degrees in Business and another discipline (e.g., BBA+BA, BBA+LLB, BBA+BEng European CEMS MIM programand BBA+BSc, BBA+Comp), as well as gain Concurrent Degrees (e.g., BBA+MPP and BBA+MSc) that may be further extended into dual masters (BBA+MPP+MPA and BBA+MSc+MIM). There are also numerous Minor programs offered by many departments throughout NUS, and students may likewise graduate with double Majors by completing a second Major outside the Business School. There are further a number of foreign languages to pick from.

Bright and expressive students have the option of substituting up to 30% of the BBA curriculum with enriching modules from NUS' University Scholars Programme (USP). Entrepreneurial students may spend 12 months in one of 5 NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) affiliated with Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania (including Wharton School), Fudan University, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and Indian Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Village is at NUSInstitute of Science.

Community life at NUS is richly varied and vibrant. Students are spoilt for choice both socially and academically. Bizaders assisted with hosting the inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics Games for 3200 athletes and 800 officials from 200 countries.

Rigorous

The NUS BBA Program provides a rigorous yet flexible learning experience for managerial leadership development. The curriculum is benchmarked against those of top business schools such as Wharton, MIT and Berkeley. The modules are taught by a premium faculty with members holding PhDs from well-known universities, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Wharton and London Business School. The rigour of our Business research was ranked 51st globally (4th outside North America) in 2006.

Relevant

The NUS BBA Program has a strong focus on relevance for practical applications. Some study modules involve projects in cooperation with business firms. All modules include participative learning; many are taught using problem-based and participant-centred approaches, often via case studies. We urge students to develop a global mindset with an Asian heartbeat.

Rewarding 

We are career focused right from matriculation. Our School has the widest alumni web consisting of more than 28,000 from our degree programs. This extensive international network facilitates our efforts in finding internship positions for our students and job placements for our graduates. Alumni may continue to draw from the wellspring that is our extended collegiate community, while involving as lifelong co-owners and co-builders. You will be in your element within Bizad if you are a verbally-inclined "people" person and enjoy cognitive teamwork. Come join us for your transformational experience!

 

"Investing 4 years in NUS Business School has brought me impressive Returns on Investment (ROI). As the President of the NUS Business Club, I honed practical leadership skills and expanded both professional and social circles. Through participating in international competitions like the University of Washington’s Global Case, L’Oreal Brandstorm and L’Oreal EStrat, I developed sharper business acumen. Most importantly, the cutting edge career support by our Career Services Office has led to multiple offers for top jobs well before graduation.”
~ Ritchie Goenawan, Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours Class of 2010