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Singapore – Your choice for quality graduate education
Wealth Management
As a key financial centre in the region, Singapore’s ambition to become the hub for wealth management came a step closer to reality in 2003 with the launch Master of Science in Wealth Management under the auspices of the Singapore Management University in collaboration with the Swiss Finance Institute and Wealth Management Institute to meet the growing need for wealth managers in Asia. The programme is the first and the only one of its kind available in the world. Students are accorded opportunities to learn about both recent theoretical and industry advancements in wealth management as a profession and a business and receive practical learning. The programme includes a 2-week organized visit to Switzerland to gain exposure to international practices and perspectives of the global wealth management industry.
Tourism and Hospitality
Educational institutions in Singapore have also stepped up their offerings of tourism-related courses in the wake of its ambitious drive to reinvent its tourism engines. Universities and private institutions are offering degree and master programmes that combine management theory with practical application to the hospitality industry. For example, the Nanyang Technological University has tied up with Cornell University in the United States to conduct a joint Masters of Management in Hospitality (MMH) programme. This is the flagship programme of the Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management. MMH candidates will spend six months in Singapore at the Nanyang Business School and six months in Ithaca, New York at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. The program is designed to meet the needs of current industry professionals, career-changers, and recent graduates who have a passion for hospitality.
Media
Tisch School of the Arts, a renowned performing and media arts institution has drawn on the vast resources of New York University and New York City for more than 40 years to create an extraordinary training ground for artists and scholars. Just last year, Tisch School of the Arts announced that it will be setting up its first-ever branch campus in Singapore. The Singapore Campus will offer a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film production, and classes will begin in 2007. “Asia has a burgeoning community of artists with a rich history of artistic expression, and Singapore is situated geographically in the middle of it all,” said Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts and vice provost for the arts at NYU.
Private schools and institutions
A diverse range of educational opportunities are also offered by private educational organizations complements Singapore’s tertiary sector. These schools are popular with local and foreign students alike, and work closely with foreign universities to offer postgraduate education. The postgraduate programmes offered in conjunction with foreign universities include popular MBA programmes, as well as postgraduate programmes tailored to the needs of the new economy. Look out for the schools on the Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organizations scheme. These organisations have been recognised by SPRING Singapore, the national industry standards and productivity organisation, as having attained a commendable level of business practice and performance.
- An Education that Prepares Students for the Job Market
Surrounded by the world’s fastest growing economies, studying in Singapore also enables students to be plugged, first hand, into the pull of high-end corporate businesses whilst imbibing academic rigors from the best of global institutions.
Institutes of higher learning work collaboratively with businesses in Singapore and the region via numerous research and internship programmes to ensure that the research does not remain within the confines of the universities, but will result in products and innovations that will benefit societies and drive the economy. Emphasis is placed on ensuring that every student is equipped to think and act like global citizens. Students are encouraged to take up internships/ industrial attachment programmes, which will help them gain early insights into the working world, both in Singapore and overseas, and give them a head-start in approaching their future employers.
- Links:
www.singaporeedu.gov.sg
