Jun 2008 | The Ministry of Education’s International Academic Advisory Panel recommended the establishment of a liberal arts college in Singapore
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Jan 2009 | Then National University of Singapore (NUS) President, Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, and then Yale University President, Professor Richard C Levin, met at Davos at the World Economic Forum and mooted the idea of forming a liberal arts and sciences college in Singapore with Yale |
Aug 2009 | Faculty at NUS and Yale studied the issues of planning a curriculum, recruiting a faculty and designing a residential college |
Sept 2010 | Memorandum of Understanding to consider Yale-NUS College was signed |
Apr 2011 | Final agreement signed to launch Yale-NUS College |
Aug 2011 | Global architects Pelli Clarke Pelli retained to design the campus, with Singapore’s Forum Architects |
Jan 2012 | Two joint programmes in Law and Environmental Studies were launched: the Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts offered jointly by Yale-NUS and Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and a Special Programme offered by Yale-NUS and the Yale School of the Environment |
Feb 2012 | Inaugural round of admissions opened |
Jun 2012 | Inaugural faculty hired and year-long intensive planning process began |
Jul 2012 | Pericles Lewis became Yale NUS’ first President |
Jun 2013 | Yale-NUS College welcomed the inaugural class of over 150 students comprising 26 nationalities with a summer immersion programme at Yale in New Haven |
Aug 2013 | Class of 2017 began the Common Curriculum |
Aug 2013 | Inauguration Ceremony was graced by then President of the Republic of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam |
Apr 2015 | A five-year Concurrent Degree Programme with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy NUS was launched |
May 2015 | A five-year Concurrent Degree Programme with Yale School of Public Health was launched |
Jul 2015 | Yale-NUS College moved into its campus at 16 College Avenue West |
Oct 2015 | Yale-NUS College marked the inauguration of its College campus with a ceremony officiated by then Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and held a symposium on international liberal education |
Jul 2017 | 119 students graduated from Yale-NUS College’s inaugural cohort |
Jul 2017 | Professor Tan Tai Yong appointed second Yale-NUS President |
Jan 2018 | Yale-NUS & Duke-NUS Liberal Arts and Medicine Pathway with Duke-NUS Medical School was launched |
Feb 2019 | A five-year Concurrent Degree Programme with NUS School of Computing was launched |
Aug 2021 | NUS announced the decision to combine Yale-NUS College and the University Scholars Programme (USP) into a single new college now known as NUS College |
Jul 2022 | Professor Joanne Roberts appointed Yale-NUS’ third President |
Mar 2023 | Yale-NUS College’s first Geopolitics Conference was held in partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, supported by the Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture & Civilisation Programme |
Jan 2024 | Yale-NUS organised a liberal arts symposium on Learning from Global Liberal Arts Education: Innovation and Resilience |
May 2024 | Approximately 11 per cent of the College’s 2017- 2024 cohort went directly to graduate school |
Feb 2025 | Annually, around 90% of College’s graduates were employed within six months of completing their final examinations, based on the annual Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Surveys from 2017 – 2024 |
May 2025 | Yale-NUS College celebrated its final graduation |
June 2025 | Yale-NUS College is officially closed |