Overview

The University Scholars Programme (USP) leads a University-wide commitment to provide an intellectually stimulating and enriching academic environment for the best students in NTU. The programme includes an exciting multi-disciplinary curriculum that supplements your core curriculum and general education programme. From ethics to quantitative reasoning, from religions of the world to astronomy, USP offers a wide range of courses, special events, and learning opportunities each year that promise to broaden your perspectives and challenge your creative thinking and analytical ability.

USP students are involved in every aspect of campus life. Besides classroom learning and special seminars with distinguished professors and Nobel Laureates, you will be guaranteed a place for overseas exchange and on-campus accommodation. NTU invests in truly exceptional undergraduate students to equip them with intellectual skills to ensure they are ready for a variety of high-level careers.

Join the USP if you are eager to be part of a vigorous intellectual community.


University Scholars Programme (USP)

The University Scholars Programme (USP) is a multidisciplinary academic programme for NTU undergraduates.

We offer the freedom to explore multiple disciplines, a wide range of extracurricular and overseas opportunities, and a close community of exceptionally motivated, talented students. The aim is to produce graduates with the intellectual rigour, initiative, and innovative spirit to make significant contributions to society and to their chosen fields of interest.

To this end, we provide an environment for exploration, collaboration, and creative discovery. We empower students’ intellectual development through immersion in the core ideas that underpin major academic disciplines, and to forge a conversation between these ideas.

USP welcomes incoming NTU students whose academic performance indicates that they are well suited to a challenging academic programme. NTU is interested in students who want to engage in active inquiry and who are eager for a meaningful intellectual community. Students are admitted based on their academic potential and co-curricular achievements, together with their passion, motivation, and curiosity.
USP is not a scholarship disbursement programme. USP students may however apply for NTU scholarships, or can be recipients of other scholarships.

Upon successful completion of USP requirements, and their home programme, USP students graduate with an honours degree from their College, and a certificate that recognises them as University Scholars.