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3.4.11

In 1st venture outside US, Yale University creates college with university in Singapore.

Yale University and the National University of Singapore have agreed to create a college in the island nation that will be the Ivy League university's first campus outside its New Haven home and the latest in a growing number of international partnerships among colleges.

Yale-NUS College will open in 2013 with a class of about 150 students and eventually expand to 1,000.

"Just as Yale shaped liberal arts education in the U.S. in the 19th century, we believe the new Yale-NUS College can play a pivotal role in shaping the many liberal arts colleges likely to be built in Asia in the coming decades," Yale President Richard Levin said.

The announcement was made Thursday.

The new college will have a residential education model designed to create sense of community. The curriculum will combine Western and Asian perspectives with two years of general education before concentration on a major.

Yale has been expanding internationally in recent years with numerous initiatives, including a global affairs program designed to better prepare students for careers in diplomacy and other international jobs.

The National University of Singapore has been undertaking such initiatives with other prestigious U.S. universities, including a graduate medical school with Duke University, a conservatory of music with Johns Hopkins' Peabody Institute and programs with the New York University School of Law.

Such partnerships help American universities in their ambitions to have a global reach, said Peggy Blumenthal, senior counsellor to the president at the private non-profit Institute of International Education.

"It's very significant for Yale," Blumenthal said. "To be a world class university you have to reach into the world and you have to get your students and your faculty much more globally mobile. It really will dramatically increase the opportunities for its students and faculty to get deeply involved with one of the Asian tiger countries that is expanding very rapidly."

For NUS, the partnership with Yale helps achieve its goal of becoming a regional educational hub that attracts students from fast growing neighbouring countries, Blumenthal said.
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