At the national university of Singapore dates back set up since 1905, when king Edward vii college and set up in 1927, the raffles college (Singapore is at that time king colony), in 1949 the two colleges merged into the university of malaya, later renamed the university of Singapore. Nanyang university in 1953, the Chinese community in southeast Asia founded under the support, become the second university in Singapore. University of Singapore and nanyang university in 1980 formally merged into the national university of Singapore. University has 9, college, department of a total of more than 50, provide a high standard of academic courses. In addition, the school also has more than nine graduate schools, research institutions and multiple research center.

As Singapore's senior talents training center, the national university of Singapore to receive government funding s $250 million a year, so far has been the government s $5 billion investment. Under the government's strong support, the rapid development of the national university of Singapore in 2006 Britain The Times higher education supplement "published by the world top 100 university, national university of Singapore ranked no. 22. In Asia in 2010 ranked the third (the Peking University and tsinghua university are arranged for 12 and 16).