NTU's new honours college set to take in first 500 students

Its curriculum focuses on using tech for good, training students in skills like entrepreneurship

- Gabrielle Chan

A new undergraduate college at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will take in its first batch of about 500 students from August.

The first intake for the NTU Honours College, which caters to high-potential students, will comprise those enrolled in the university's signature programmes, said NTU on May 13.

These include programmes such as the C.N. Yang Scholars Programme, the Renaissance Engineering Programme, and the University Scholars Programme.

New students from other degree courses with a willingness to serve others and strong academic performance by the end of their first year will also be encouraged to apply to the college from their second year.

Students in the NTU Honours College remain enrolled in their respective schools or faculties, such as engineering, business or science, but will take on new hands-on modules that cut across disciplines, on top of the curricula of their own programmes.

The new college's curriculum focuses on using technology for good and equipping students with skills like entrepreneurship and leadership, said NTU.