NUS law faculty to return to Kent Ridge in 2025

It will move into Yale-NUS premises after spending 19 years at Bukit Timah campus

- Gabrielle Chan

The National University of Singapore's (NUS) law faculty will be moving back to Kent Ridge come August 2025, after spending 19 years at its Bukit Timah campus.

It will move into the Yale-NUS College premises located in University Town after the final batch of Yale-NUS students graduates, said NUS in a statement on May 27.

The move will give law students easier access to non-law electives and non-law minors offered by other colleges, said NUS Law dean Andrew Simester, noting that law is "increasingly interwoven" across domains such as healthcare, artificial intelligence and sustainability.

"This marks a significant step by the university to further integrate its distinctive law degree programmes into its comprehensive and interdisciplinary undergraduate education," NUS added in its statement.

With the move, students will also get more opportunities to interact with the main campus community of 50,000 students.

The NUS Law community comprises about 1,000 undergraduate and 250 postgraduate students, and 160 full-time faculty and staff.

NUS Law will neighbour NUS College, the honours college of the university, with both faculties located in the same premises.

The NUS Centre for International Law, a university-level research institute established in 2006, will also move to the Kent Ridge campus.

In response to queries from The Straits Times about plans for the current law school building, NUS said: "We are exploring plans to repurpose and reallocate the space at the Bukit Timah campus according to our needs, and will study the different options carefully." The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, located in the Bukit Timah campus, will remain.