National University of Singapore
NUS seeks to be a leading global business school recognized for excellence in education and research. See for yourself what life as a student at NUS is all about.
Program Overview
About National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) started out as a modest medical school with 23 students in 1905. It was founded by a determined group of businessmen led by Tan Jiak Kim, to serve the needs of the local community. Today, more than 100 years on, as Singapore’s flagship university, it continues to be in service to the country and society. The mission of the National University of Singapore is to educate business leaders and advance knowledge to promote the progress of global business and society. NUS seeks to be a leading global business school recognized for excellence in education and research.
Term Dates
NUS offers IBEX opportunities in the fall and spring semesters.
- Fall semester (Semester 1): late-July to early-December
- Spring semester (Semester 2): early-January to May
Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.
Housing and Living Costs
- Housing: On-campus accommodation ranges from S$400 – S$1,000/month. Off-campus accommodation ranges from S$600 – S$1,800 per month. Costs vary by room type. On-campus accommodation is available at NUS, but it is not guaranteed. If not available there is affordable student hostel accommodation nearby.
- Food: approximately S$500 – S$800/month.
- Books and class materials: approximately S$250 – 350/semester.
- Local transportation: S$100 – S$200/month.
- Personal expenses: S$500 – 800/month.
- Insurance and other: All exchange students are required to purchase the International Comprehensive Insurance from NUS, approximately S$40 per semester, and are charged approximately S$55 in fees for bus and printing services for the semester.
S$ = Singapore Dollar
Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.
Language of Instruction
English
Student Services
The student services available to exchange students include:
- Welcome and social activities throughout the semester.
- NUS’ Business School Office of Career Services offers events, recruitment, and counseling.
Additionally, students are encouraged to find their own internships during vacation periods or after courses end.
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.
IBEX Course Information
- You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
- Note that the NYU credits you receive for a course are based on the conversion above not the amount of credits you receive if you take the course on NYU's campus (as an example Texts and Ideas equivalent do not automatically transfer back as 4 credits).
- 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 NUS's course guide or 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 NUS publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is actually being offered.
List of Approved Courses
Course Title Abroad | NYU Credits | Course Equivalent at NYU | Semester Taken |
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BSN3702 New Venture Creation | 4 | Entrepreneurship Elective | Fall 2024 |
CS3230 Design and Analysis of Algorithms | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2023 |
IS5005 Digital Engagement | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
DAO1704/DAO1704X Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets | 4 | MULT-UB 7 Decision Models and Analytics OR Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
DBA3702 Descriptive Analytics with R | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
DBA 3803 Predictive Analytics in Business | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Spring 2020 |
CS 1010 Programming Methodology | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2023 |
ST3131 Regression Analysis | 4 | Advanced Statistics Elective - cannot also get credit for STAT-UB 15 nor STAT-UB 17 | Fall 2023 |
BSN4811 Innovation and Productivity | 4 | ECON-UB 119: Economics of Innovation | Fall 2021 |
EC3332 Money and Banking I | 4 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2021 |
EC3361 Labour Economics I | 4 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2021 |
RE3807 Corporate Investment in Real Estate | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2023 |
FIN3703A Financial Markets | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2024 |
FIN3714 Financial Risk Management | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2024 |
FIN4761A SIF: Private Equity | 4 | FINC-UB 32 Private Equity Finance | Spring 2022 |
FIN3102/FIN3702: Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022, Fall 2024 |
MNO3703 Leading in the 21st Century | 4 | Advanced Management Elective | Spring 2025 |
MNO3702 Negotiation and Conflict Management | 4 | Advanced Management Elective | Spring 2024 |
BSN3714: Co-Creating Value (Tools for Collaborative Innovation) | 4 | Advanced Management Elective | Spring 2020 |
BSP 3001A Strategic Management | 4 | Advanced Management Elective | Spring 2020 |
MNO 3715 Leading Groups and Teams | 4 | MGMT-UB 7 Managing People and Teams at Work | Spring 2020 |
MKT1705X Principles of Marketing | 4 | MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing | Fall 2021 |
MKT 3427/MKT 3722 Research for Marketing Insights | 4 | Advanced Marketing Elective | Spring 2020 |
MKT3701 Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice | 4 | Advanced Marketing Elective | Fall 2020 |
MKT3702 Consumer Behavior | 4 | MKTG-UB 2 Consumer Behavior | Fall 2021 |
CS 2100 Computer Organisation | 4 | Computer Science Minor Elective Credit * Must get approval from NYU Computer Science department. | Spring 2020 |
MA2001 Linear Algebra | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
GESS1009 Evolution of the Global City State | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
CE2134 Fluid Mechanics | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
SC2205 Sociology of Family | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
GEX1010 Thinking Like an Economist | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2023 |
AH2101 Introduction to Art History | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
NM1101E Communications, New Media and Society | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GEH1053 Film Art and Human Concerns | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GEH1062 Ghosts and Spirits in Society and Culture | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GESS1001 Changing Landscapes of Singapore | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GES1034 We the Citizens - Understanding Singapore’s Politics | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
PS2249/GEK2003/SSA2209 Government and Politics of Singapore | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GES1028/GESS1020 Singapore Society | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
GEC1001 Chinese Music, Language, & Literature | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
JS2230 Itadakimasu - Food In Japan | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2021 |
SE2225 Forbidden Pleasures: Vice in Southeast Asia | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2021 |
TS 2237 As If: Actors and Acting | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2020 |
AH2203 Empire and Art: India, Singapore, Malaya | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2020 |
EC2101 Macroeconomic Analysis I | 4 | ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business (EGB) | Spring 2023, Fall 2024 |
BSE 3701 Macroeconomic Principles in the Global Economy | 4 | ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business (EGB) | Spring 2022 |
MNO1001E/MNO1706E or MNO1706X Organisational Behavior | 4 | SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility and Leadership (PRL) | Fall 2023, Fall 2022 |
LL4189V Corporate Social Responsibility | 4 | SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL) | Spring 2021 |
RE4701 Real Estate Development | 4 | Advanced Operations Elective | Fall 2024 |
DOS3701 Supply chain management | 4 | Advanced Operations Elective | Fall 2024 |
Operations and Technology Management | 4 | OPMG-UB 1 Operations Management | Fall 2024 |
DOS3704 Operations Strategy | 4 | OPMG-UB 1 Operations Management | Spring 2022 |
GE3253 Weather and Climate | 4 | Natural Science | Fall 2022 |
GEH1019 Food & Health | 4 | Natural Science | Spring 2022 |
GEX1015 Life, the Universe, and Everything | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Spring 2024 |
GEX1026 I Do Not Think Therefore I Am | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Spring 2024 |
PH2207 Hume and Kant | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2023 |
GEX1011 Science Fiction and Philosophy | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2023 |
PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2023 |
EN2277 Love's Word: Reading across Literature and Philosophy | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2022 |
PH2241 Philosophy of Mind | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2022 |
GL2101 Origins of the Modern World | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2022 |
PH2222 Greek Philosophy (Socrates and Plato) | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Spring 2022 |
Chinese Music, Language and Literature (in English) | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Spring 2025 |
GESS1005 South Asia in Singapore | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Fall 2024 |
SE3232 Death and Dying in Southeast Asia | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Spring 2021 |
HY3204 Southeast Asia: Decolonization & After | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Spring 2021 |
SE3216 Migration, Diaspora and Refugees in Southeast Asia | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Fall 2020 |
SN 1101E South Asia: People, Culture, Development | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Spring 2022 |