NUS offers 40% rebate on fees for over 80 master's programmes

Enhanced rebate scheme part of aim to ease cost burden of continuing education

- Gabrielle Chan

Individuals keen on pursuing a master’s degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will pay 40 per cent less in tuition fees for more than 80 such programmes from August.

All Singapore citizens and permanent residents can enjoy this rebate, said NUS president Tan Eng Chye on July 26.

The rebate applies only to self-funded graduate coursework programmes that are not government-subsidised.

These courses include Master of Computing, Master of Science in Applied Biomedicine, and Master of Science in Finance.

The rebate does not apply to other research-based and coursework programmes like dentistry, law and public health.

Professor Tan was speaking at the NUS Lifelong Learning Festival, a biennial event, with this year’s focus being on artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Some 250 guests attended the event, which was held at the NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House, and nearly 1,000 tuned in online.

He said that a survey done by NUS in 2023 found that a key hurdle to returning to school for continuing education and training is cost.

The survey involved more than 2,300 NUS alumni. It found that more than 60 per cent of them had participated in some form of education in the past two years and close to 90 per cent planned to take up continuing education in the next 12 months.