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• NUS organized the Council for the Advancement and
Support for Education (CASE) Conference 2006. Held
for the first time in Asia, the conference, drew some
450 participants from over 170 institutions in 30
countries.
• NUS hosted the 8 th ASEAN University Network
Education Forum, Tertiary Education in ASEAN:
Perspectives from Young Leaders, and Young
Speakers Contest in May 2006.
Global Standing
• The 2005 global ranking of universities by The Times
of London placed NUS:
- 22 nd overall and 3 rd in Asia
- 9 th for Technology
- 13 th for Social Sciences
- 15 th for Biomedicine
• Newsweek’s inaugural ranking of global universities
placed NUS among the top 3 in Asia and Australasia,
and 31 st worldwide.
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State of the University 2006
• Financial Times ranked the Asia Pacific Executive
MBA (EMBA) programs of NUS Business School (BIZ)
among the world’s top 30 in 2005. In 2006, it ranked
BIZ’s full-time MBA program 92 nd in the world, 3 rd in
Asia, and 5 th for international mobility, which traces
alumni’s employment movements.
• The Top 100 ranking of business schools’ research
contributions done by University of Texas, Dallas
(UTD) placed BIZ 51 st worldwide and 7 th among the
non-US schools. The ranking is based on UTD’s survey
of faculty publications in 24 leading business journals
between 2001 and 2005.