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Nanyang Technological University

Spend your semester at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, ranked among the top technology universities in the world.

Program Overview

About Nanyang Technological University

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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a research-intensive university with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering. Founded in 1955 with funds from millionaires down to the humble trishaw rider, NTU began as Nanyang University, a university created by the people, for the people. The 200-hectare residential campus, located in the south-western part of Singapore, provides a high-quality global education to more than 23,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate students. The student body includes top scholars and international olympiad medallists from the region and beyond. The original Yunnan Garden campus is now a cosmopolitan hub and NTU has a presence in other parts of Singapore, and in China, Europe, India and the United States. NTU  aspires to nurture entrepreneurial leaders through a broad education in diverse disciplines. Today, it is ranked among the top 26 technology universities in the world and well within the top 100 among comprehensive universities.

 

Term Dates

NTU offers IBEX opportunities in the fall and spring semesters.

  • Fall semester (Semester 1): early-August to early-December
  • Spring semester (Semester 2): mid-January to mid-May

Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.

 

Housing and Living Costs

  • Housing: On-campus accommodation is limited. Exchange students may be allocated to on-campus accommodations based on availability and students must apply via NTU’s online portal before the deadline to be eligible. On-campus accommodation ranges between S$235 – 405/month (varies by room type). 
  • Food: approximately S$300 – S$400/month.
  • Books and  class materials: approximately S$200 – 500/semester.
  • Local transportation: S$100/month.
  • Personal expenses: S$200 – 400/month.
  • Insurance: All exchange students are required to purchase the NTU Group Hospitalisation & Surgical Insurance (GHSI) approximately S$40/semester.

S$ = Singapore Dollar

Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.

 

Language of Instruction

English

 

Student Services

  • NTU has more than 100 clubs and societies, including the NTU Heritage club and the NTU Outdoor Adventure Club.
  • The GEM (Global Education & Mobility) Club, a student-run initiative, helps to create positive experiences for inbound and outbound exchange students by planning events and excursions and organizing a buddy program.

 


Academic Information

If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two individual advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one with the NYU Stern International Programs team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information. Please note that NTU requires a minimum 3.0 GPA for all exchange students.

 

IBEX Course Information

  • You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
  • Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
    • Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
    • Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
  • Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
    • You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
    • Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
    • All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.

 

Previously Approved Courses

  • Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
  • There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
  • If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.

 

Finding New Courses

  • You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
  •  If you see a course on NTU’s website that you would like to take, but is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s International Programs team for approval.
  • Once NTU publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.

 

List of Approved Courses

List of Approved Courses
**Please note that any pre-approved business course can also come back as a General Stern Elective

Course Title Abroad

NYU Credits

Course Equivalent at NYU

BU8642 Leadership in the 21st Century 3 SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL)

BU5341 Practical Ethics: Thinking About Right & Wrong

3

SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL)

AB9602 Leadership In Organisations

4

SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL)

AB 1601 Organizational Behavior and Design

4

MGMT-UB 1 Management & Organizations

Introduction to Databases 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective
BC3415 AI in Accounting and Finance 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

Decision-Making with Programming and Data Analytics

3

TECH-UB 24 Projects in Programming and Data Sciences

BC 2402 Data Management and Business Intelligence

4

TECH-UB 46 Dealing with Data

CZ 4032 Data Analytics and Mining

4

TECH-UB 57 Data Mining for Business Analytics

AB 8401 Decision Making with Programming and Analytics

3

TECH-UB 23 Introduction to Programming and Data Science; cannot also take CSC:I-UA 2 Intro to Programming

BF2223 FINTECH IN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT 4 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective
BC3410 FINANCIAL SERVICE PROCESSES & ANALYTICS 4 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective
BC3405 Lean Operations and Analytics 4 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective
BC2406 Analytics I: Visual and Predictive Techniques 4 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

BC 3401 Enterprise Processes & Analytics

4

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

BM 2506 Digital Marketing: Connecting with Customers in Today's World

4

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

BM 2507 Marketing Analytics

4

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

BC 3402 - Financial Service Process & Analytics

4

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective OR Advanced Finance Elective

BE 1401 Business Operations and Processes

4

OPMG-UB 1 Operations Management

BF2228 Sustainable Finance 4 Advanced Finance Elective
BF 2201 Investments 4 FINC-UB 44 Portfolio Management
BF2213 Introduction to Compliance 4 Advanced Finance Elective
BF3203 Equity Securities 4 FINC-UB 41 Equity Valuation 

BE 3201 Entrepreneurial Finance

3

FINC-UB 61 Topics in Entrepreneurial Finance

BF 2206 Wealth Management

4

Advanced Finance Elective

BF 2224 International Finance/Global Financial Markets and Management

3

FIN-UB 30 International Financial Management

BF 2209 Derivative Securities

4

FIN-UB 43 Futures and Options

BF 2214 Fintech in Investment Management

3

Advanced Finance Elective

BF 3204 Financial Modeling

4

Advanced Finance Elective

BF 3207 Alternative Investments

4

FINC-UB 15 Alternative Investments I

HE 4018 Finance and Development

3

Advanced Finance Elective

BH 3603 Cultural Intelligence at Work

4

Advanced Management Elective

BH 3601 Talent Development & Management 3 Advanced Management Elective

BU 8461 Cultural Intelligence: How to be an Explorer of the World

3

Advanced Management Elective

BM 2501 Market Behavior

4

MKTG-UB 2 Consumer Behavior

BM 2502 Market Intelligence

4

MKTG-UB 9 Research for Consumer Insights

BU5502 Marketing Communications: An Integrated Approach 3 MKTG-UB 3 Advertising
BM2505 Channel Value Creation  4 Advanced Marketing Elective

BT 2403 Service Operations Management

4

Advanced Marketing Elective 

HE 2010 Development Economics

3

Advanced Economics Elective

HE 3003: The Chinese Economy

3

Advanced Economics Elective

HE 3013 Urban Economics

3

Advanced Economics Elective

ES5007 CLIMATE & CLIMATE CHANGE 3 Natural Science
DD0002 The Contemporary Creative & Cultural Industry of Singapore 3 Cultures & Contexts
HH 4090 Archaeology of Cambodia: Landscape, Settlement & the Demise of Angkor 4 Cultures & Contexts
HL 2006 Modernism 3 Texts & Ideas
HL2004 Sensibility & Romanticism 3 Texts & Ideas

HL 3012: The Discourse of Love

3

Texts & Ideas

HL 8025 Social Constructions of Utopias and Dystopias

3

Texts & Ideas

BU 8542 Social Marketing - Making the World a Better Place

3

General Stern Elective

DR2014 Body-Centric Design 3 General Non-Stern Elective

CM 8002 Forensic Science

3

General Non-Stern Elective

HP 3204 An Ape's Guide to Human Language

3

General Non-Stern Elective

HP 8003 Are You Okay? Mental Health in Singapore 

3

General Non-Stern Elective

LA 9001 Arabic Language, Level 1

3

General Non-Stern Elective

MH 8300 It's a Discreetly Discrete World: Mathematics in Real-life Applications

3

General Non-Stern Elective

DD 9009 Design Thinking

3

General Non-Stern Elective

EE 8086 Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

3

General Non-Stern Elective

ES 8007 Climate and Climate Change

3

General Non-Stern Elective