NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the country. It is largely a comprehensive research university, offering degree programmes in a wide range of disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, business, computing, and music.

The university has 3 separate campuses, Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram. The Duke–NUS Medical School, a postgraduate medical school jointly established with Duke University, is located at the Outram campus; its Bukit Timah campus houses the Faculty of Law and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; and the Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college established in collaboration with Yale University that is scheduled to be merged with the University Scholars Programme in 2025 to form NUS College, is located at University Town (commonly known as UTown).

In 2022, the QS World University Rankings ranked NUS 11th in the world and 1st in Asia, followed by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) at 12th in the world and 2nd in Asia.

The QS list is based on a survey of 1,543 universities, including 376 in Asia, evaluating universities according to the following six metrics: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Faculty/Student Ratio, Citations per faculty, International Faculty Ratio and International Student Ratio.

According to Wikipedia.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_Singapore)