Best Universities for Programs in Singapore 2024

Founded in 1970, Université Paris Pantheon-Assas is the heir of 'La Sorbonne", the former Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Economiques de Paris since the 13th century. The University is nationally and internationally recognized as the leading French university in Law, committed to ensuring the highest level of excellence, with respect to all fields of Law. Singapore has become one of the most prosperous countries in the world and positions itself as the region’s financial and high-tech hub. Assas International, Singapore campus is hosted at INSEAD Asia within One-North, an area dedicated to education, research, innovation, and business industries.

Asia’s leading contemporary arts and design institution. LASALLE College of the Arts is the highest-ranked specialist arts institution in Singapore and joint top in Southeast Asia for art and design (QS World University Rankings 2023). LASALLE provides a nurturing, interdisciplinary learning environment to inspire the next generation of forward-looking, globally engaged artists, designers and leaders of creative industries. Its faculty is led by a community of award-winning artists, designers, educators and researchers, and their practice-led research sets LASALLE apart as an international centre of excellence.

Nanyang Institute of Social Sciences (NISS) started in Singapore, aiming to create a lifelong learning platform that incorporates quality higher education resources from the East and the West.

SMU commenced its curriculum in 2000 with the School of Business, which welcomed its pioneer cohort of students in August 2000. In 2004, the Lee Foundation contributed S$50 million to SMU in honour of the late Dr Lee Kong Chian, a well-known Southeast Asian businessman, philanthropist and community leader. In recognition of the Lee Foundation’s generosity, SMU named in perpetuity the School of Business, the building and the university-wide scholar's programme after Dr Lee Kong Chian.

The University of St.Gallen is offering Asia-related academic activities through its own subsidiary, the "St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia Pte. Ltd." or SGI in short.

IE University is a top international university in Spain with campuses in Madrid and Segovia. Recognized as one of the leading higher education institutions in the world, IE shapes leaders who drive innovation and change in organizations, providing a learning environment where technologies and diversity play a key role in fostering global vision, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a humanistic approach.

SUSS provides an applied education that targets both fresh school leavers and adult learners, in the domain of the social sciences, and disciplines that have a strong impact on human and community development.

EDHEC Business School prepares international talents for global careers. Known for our academic excellence and top-ranked business education, our mission is to prepare leaders to succeed in a challenging business environment that demands agility, innovation, and social responsibility. EDHEC's close relationship with global enterprises allows us to offer unique insights and opportunities to our students and to provide a transformational business education where the measurement of our success is the success of our graduates.

EHL Hospitality Business School, founded in 1893 as Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, is pioneering the methods of Swiss hospitality education and set the standards of excellence. Today, EHL combines the Swiss values of academic rigor and industry practice with creativity and innovation for customer-centric hospitality management degrees that prepare graduates to lead the future and manage with respect and empathy.

The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is one of the region’s leading education and lifelong learning institutions, recognised for empowering individuals and enterprises to thrive across life stages through learning. Through harnessing new knowledge, skills and technology, SIM provides skills-based learning experiences that enable students, professionals, and enterprises to Learn for Life and Thrive for Life.

Duke-NUS Medical School was established through a landmark collaboration between two world-class institutions: Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS), with the objective of providing innovative education and impactful research that enhance the practice of medicine in Singapore and beyond.

Established in 2005, the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS) is a school in the College of Science at Nanyang Technological University. We offer undergraduate BSc (Hons) programmes and postgraduate programmes in three core areas: Chemistry and Biological Chemistry; ​​Mathematical Sciences; and Physics and Applied Physics.

For more than 50 years, NUS Business School has offered a rigorous, relevant, and rewarding business education to outstanding students from across the world. Founded in the same year that Singapore gained independence, NUS Business School stands today among the world’s leading business schools. It is distinctive for offering the best of global business knowledge with deep Asian insights, preparing students to lead Asian businesses to international success and to help global businesses succeed in Asia.

Rutgers Business School Asia Pacific is a subsidiary of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA). Rutgers offers the highly ranked Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) and Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS S.C.M.) Programs to talented professionals in Singapore. In addition to the EMBA and MS S.C.M. programs, we offer open enrolment and customized Executive Education programs for both individuals and corporations.

The National University of Singapore (NUS), ranked 1st in Asia and 11th worldwide (QS Global World Ranking 2021) is Singapore’s flagship university. NUS offers a global approach to education, research, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. We have 17 faculties across three campuses in Singapore, as well as 12 NUS Overseas Colleges across the world. Our multidisciplinary and real-world approach to education, research and entrepreneurship enable us to work closely with industry, governments, and academia to address crucial and complex issues relevant to Asia and the world.