Singapore

Additional costs

You must take out a external page mandatory insurance (NTU Group Hospitalisation & Surgical Insurance, GHSI) even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance.

NTU charges a non-refundable fee of SGD 387.60 (undergraduate) or SGD 430.60 (postgraduate), payable after acceptance of the offer and upon arrival at NTU. This fee helps to cover the cost of providing administrative / onboarding support and social activities for exchange students during their stay at NTU.

The accuracy of the above information is not guaranteed. Students must ensure that they have sufficient funds to make these mandatory payments upon arrival / registration at NTU.

Information regarding external page cost of living can be found online (open the tab "Financial").

Partner university scholarships

DUO-Singapore Exchange Fellowship (DUO)
(by NTU's invitation only)

Accommodation

On external page campus housing is subject to availability. Students must be prepared to rent off-campus accommodation if required. Upon acceptance at NTU a separate online application is required. Note that rooms may need to be shared with another student and that in many cases air-conditioning is not provided.
 

Course planning

For course selection at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), note:

• for undergraduate courses: course offer according to the external page Content of Courses (use current year for provisional study planning if not yet published for the following academic year)
• for undergraduate courses: external page list of course restriction (note division into limited vacancies vs. not available shown under "Coursework")
• for postgraduate courses: The list of effectively available courses is published only a few months before the start of the exchange. For the PG course offer of the previous semester, see the external page NTU website under "Coursework > Restricted Programmes and Courses > Postgraduate courses > List of Available Postgraduate Courses"
• That you must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them.
• classification as UG, Direct Masters or PG exchange student below
• table overview below

Flexibility is essential in planning your courses. There is no guarantee that you will be able to attend your desired courses. We strongly recommend that you find out about alternative courses early.

NTU advises exchange students to take courses at their current study level. Depending on your study progress, you will be categorized differently at NTU, with implication for your course choice:

• Upon starting your exchange, you will have completed less than 6 ETH study semesters: Undergraduate (UG) >> only undergraduate courses possible
• Upon starting your exchange, you will have completed 6 or more ETH study semesters and simultaneously be enrolled in either the 1st or the 2nd semester of your Master's degree studies: Direct Masters >> undergraduate and postgraduate courses possible (provided that the pre-requisites for the intended courses are met)
• Upon starting your exchange, you will be enrolled in the 3rd or 4th of your Master's degree studies and have obtained your ETH Bachelor's degree: Postgraduate (PG) >> only postgraduate courses possible. You must submit your Bachelor's degree to the Student Exchange Office of ETH by mid-February (exchange in the autumn semester), respectively by the end of July (exchange in the spring semester).

You commit to informing the Student Exchange Office in writing which category you belong to at the latest after successfully applying for an exchange place.
 

Note

The definitive PG course offer will not be published until around March for semester 1 and September for semester 2, i.e. well after the application deadline in the Student Exchange Office.

• Direct Master's students should be ready to cover everything with UG courses only if necessary – plan your study plan flexibly and check for credit recognition.
• Postgraduate (PG) students should think carefully about whether they can apply at all and have enough flexibility given the difficulty of planning and accessing PG courses.

Additional costs

• You must take out a external page mandatory insurance (NUS Health and Insurance Scheme, HINS) even if you already have a Swiss health insurance and / or travel insurance. The fees are included in the external page Miscellaneous Student Fees (MSFs).
• external page Cost of living (see step 5)
  
  

Partner university scholarships

external page DUO-Singapore Exchange Fellowship (DUO)
There are very limited awards available and students should not rely on receiving this award for their exchange.
 

Accommodation

Extremely limited availability and not guaranteed, see external page Hostel Admission Service. Students need to indicate on their exchange application at NUS that that they would like to apply for on-campus accommodation to receive the application instructions along with their admission offer. Even then, accommodation on campus is by no means guaranteed.

NUS strongly recommend that students seek external page off-campus accommodation early (see off-campus accommodation). This may result in increased costs.

Course planning

For course selection at the National University of Singapore (NUS), note:

• external page NUS Information Sheet
• course offer for exchange students according to the external page NG Course List (use current year for provisional study planning if not yet published for the following academic year)
• any external page course restrictions
• You must meet the specified course requirements and, if applicable, be able to prove them. (Note course description! Proof of course equivalent to be provided via ETH transcript or current printout from myStudies when registering at the host university.)
• For D-INFK: Due to a high demand and limited capacity, it may not always be possible to secure a full load of computing courses, so you should consider alternatives. Courses on AI and Machine Learning might be challenging to secure, but other courses such as Algorithms, Computational Biology and Information Theory should be available.
• table overview below

Availability of Honours courses (4XXX – often equivalent to first-year Master's level courses) and graduate courses (5XXX and 6XXX) are generally very limited and restrictions may apply.

Flexibility is essential in planning your courses. There is no guarantee that you will be able to attend your desired courses. We strongly recommend that you find out about alternative courses early.