Singapore’s Yale-NUS shutdown stirs student ire as college becomes ‘mere footnote’

They said their experience is at odds with promises from administrators that current students would still enjoy the “full Yale-NUS experience”. The education ministry and National University of Singapore (NUS) also said in 2021 that ensuring existing students would not be affected was a key priority.

“Most of what the NUS administration promised when the closure was announced, such as that the experience would be the same, did not transpire,” Tan said.

He added that it was difficult to make plans for the academic year because the course offerings kept changing each semester with professors leaving and modules dropped.

Tan plans to find alternatives for certain required courses for his major, look at summer school programmes and take an extra semester to fulfil the equivalent class quota at NUS.

Tan’s lament was a common refrain among final year students.