Why NUS in Singapore has such a high rank?

International Students
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<p>Why? I don’t understand. Half of the kids there do not speak English or they are ESL students? </p>

<p>Can someone shed some light.</p>

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<p>People in Singapore do speak English, with Singlish dialect.</p>

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<p>well, it is a very research-intensive university that produces a lot of high-quality research, so it does well on lists that use research activity as a significant criteria, such as the Academic Ranking of World Universities.</p>

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<p>[NUS[/url</a>]
[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.arwu.org/Institution.jsp?param=Nanyang%20Technological%20University]NTU[/url”&gt;http://www.arwu.org/Institution.jsp?param=Nanyang%20Technological%20University]NTU[/url</a>]</p>

<p>Both are far from the top except in Engineering/Computer Science; don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those people who put down our local universities at every opportunity but they are by no means top universities based on research activity. They do much better at the Times Higher Education Supplement Rankings but many people say that’s because of faculty appraisals inflating their scores.</p>

<p>As for the OP’s question, while there is a significant percentage of the population who can’t speak or write fluent English, those who do write at least as well as the average American/Briton if not better. * As for speech, while we generally don’t adhere to either the RP or GA accents, most of us are capable of [url=&lt;a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching]code-switching[/url”&gt;Code-switching - Wikipedia]code-switching[/url</a>] with regard to syntax and lexicon. [url=&lt;a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-creole_speech_continuum]This”&gt;Post-creole continuum - Wikipedia]This</a> link](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/Institution.jsp?param=National%20University%20of%20Singapore]NUS[/url”>http://www.arwu.org/Institution.jsp?param=National%20University%20of%20Singapore) may also be illuminative.</p>

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<li>British students have a [64.7%[/url</a>] pass rate at their own language in the GCSEs while [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2010/12/performance-by-ethnic-group-2000-2009.php]more”&gt;http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2010/12/performance-by-ethnic-group-2000-2009.php]more</a> than 85%](<a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2010/aug/24/gcses-schools]64.7%[/url”>GCSE results 2010 – live blog | Education | The Guardian) of Singaporean students passed English at the ‘O’ Levels, which is regarded as being more rigorous than the GCSEs. Comparing SAT scores with American students wouldn’t be very fair as usually only the better Singaporeans students take it.</li>
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<p>Singapore main language of communication is English. So please get your fact right! its is so prevelant even the post war leftovers has enough broken english for a simple conversation</p>

<p>I believe why NUS has high rank on certain ranking is the large international mix and in certain ranking employer perspective. Generally local employer rate local grads highly</p>

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<p>There are many schools which are ranked highly but do not teach in English.
I don’t see why knowledge of English should be a requirement to be highly ranked.</p>