Applying into USP

You may apply to USP even if your first or second choice is not one of the USP partner faculties and schools (e.g. 1st choice Medicine, 2nd choice Dentistry, 3rd choice Science), however, your place in USP (if selected) is contingent upon your accepting an offer to study at one of these partner faculties and schools.

Applicants may apply under one of the following categories to be considered for the Programme:

• Category 1: Outstanding academic record
• Category 2: Special interest and exceptional talent, background or achievement, regardless of academic record

Prior to application, it is advisable that interested applicants read and understand the academic structure of the USP curriculum as well as learn how the USP curriculum requirements are incorporated into the partner Faculties/Schools’ degree requirements, be it a single-degree, double degree or concurrent degree programme structure.

What is the application procedure for Academic Year 2008/2009?

You are invited to apply for the Programme in March, after the release of the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' level results. All applicants are required to write a short essay in support of their application. Short-listed candidates (with local mailing address) will be contacted for an interview from April to June 2008. Interviews for international applicants (with overseas mailing address) joining NUS in August 2008, will be conducted nearer the start of the academic year in July. Applicants will be assessed on the basis of the essay and the interview, in addition to academic and co-curricular achievements. National Service (NS) Men who are successful will have a place reserved for them in USP in the year that they matriculate into NUS. The closing date is Wednesday, 02 April 2008.

You will receive full consideration when you apply by the above-mentioned closing date. Should you, for one reason or another, apply after the closing date, your application will be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to the availability of places in the Programme.

If you are a Returning National Service (RNS) man and have not applied to USP before, the closing date for application to the Programme is Friday, 01 February 2008 if you intend to matriculate earlier to read USP module(s) in the Special Term. Short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview from February to March 2008. However, if you decide to matriculate in August 2008, the closing date for the Programme will be the same as that applicable to the rest of the applicants i.e. Wednesday, 02 April 2008. If you already have had a place reserved in USP, you will receive a re-confirmation package in February 2008.

To apply into USP, you either:

1. Complete and submit the USP Online Admission Form; or


2. Download the following form to send in a hard copy application.
   USP Admission Form (word.doc)(194kb) Hard copy application form
   

Note that applicants who apply online to the Programme need not send in any hard copy application form.

You will need to submit your application online to National University of Singapore (NUS) for admission to the university. Application for admission into NUS is conducted separately from admission into USP. For more information, please visit this URL: http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/apply/.

• Only short-listed and successful candidates will be notified.
• Please read the instructions carefully when completing the form. Applications lacking in information and/or with inaccurate information will not be considered.
• PRC SM2 & SM3 students who are currently in Singapore on the MOE scholarship will be contacted for an interview from April to June 2008. The outcome of their USP application will be released only in late June onwards, after their place in a NUS USP-partner Faculty/School is confirmed via the NUS Office of Admissions.