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A distinctive one-year experience that lets you explore diverse courses, discover your academic passions, and connect with a vibrant community before choosing your degree path.

 

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Singapore’s first and only undergraduate degree that lets you customise your major to shape a unique learning journey.

 

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An innovative option for students from other SMU Schools to customise an Individualised Second Major that enhances their primary degree with integrative depth.

 

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The foundation of every SMU education, guiding you through a transformative journey of intellectual exploration, critical thinking, and personal growth.

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Asia’s first interdisciplinary sustainability master’s, equipping students with essential skills for dynamic roles in reasoning, communication, coordination, and management.


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Explore urban challenges through interdisciplinary coursework and research, combining urban studies with insights from humanities, policy, business, and technology.


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Learn from a diverse team of interdisciplinary experts, uniting distinct perspectives to address Singapore and Asia’s most pressing modern challenges.


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Our research spans sustainability, urban studies, technology, society, governance, and culture—driving impactful, interdisciplinary insights for a resilient future.


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UNDERGRADUATE

Students

A distinctive one-year experience that lets you explore diverse courses, discover your academic passions, and connect with a vibrant community before choosing your degree path.

 

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Singapore’s first and only undergraduate degree that lets you customise your major to shape a unique learning journey.

 

Read More »

An innovative option for students from other SMU Schools to customise an Individualised Second Major that enhances their primary degree with integrative depth.

 

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The foundation of every SMU education, guiding you through a transformative journey of intellectual exploration, critical thinking, and personal growth.

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POSTGRADUATE

Asia’s first interdisciplinary sustainability master’s, equipping students with essential skills for dynamic roles in reasoning, communication, coordination, and management.


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Explore urban challenges through interdisciplinary coursework and research, combining urban studies with insights from humanities, policy, business, and technology.


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FaCULTY & RESEARCH

Learn from a diverse team of interdisciplinary experts, uniting distinct perspectives to address Singapore and Asia’s most pressing modern challenges.


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Our research spans sustainability, urban studies, technology, society, governance, and culture—driving impactful, interdisciplinary insights for a resilient future.


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College of Integrative Studies at a Glance

Local university that lets you customise your own major through the Bachelor of Integrative Studies.

Local university that offers the Master of Sustainability programme co-delivered with SMU School of Social Sciences.

Guidance by an industry mentor or a faculty advisor through the Bachelor of Integrative Studies.

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Disruptions in Biopharma and the Lifesciences - Surviving the Innovations of the Early 21st Century

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How Much Happier Would You Be If You Were Richer?

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CIS Thinks Big Dreams Big 2023

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Youth Ecosperity Dialogue (YED) 2023

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Youth and the Law, Ethics and Morality - How does it all fit in?

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The Political Economy of International Financial Crises

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Ethical Issues in an Age of Technology

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Wealth and Poverty Through the Lens of the Current Situation in Ukraine

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大陆是飘浮的岛屿:新加坡、1990年代与王安忆南来寻根之旅的启发 | Geography Lessons: Singapore, the 1990s and Wang Anyi’s Root-Seeking Journey to the South

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Between Pragmatism and Populism? A Conversation on the Past, Present, and Limitations of Singapore's Immigration Policy

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8th Annual SMU-Ikeda Peace and Harmony Lecture - A Broader Mind, A Bigger Heart

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Everyday Consequences of Class Inequality

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Youth Ecosperity Dialogue (YED) 2022

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SMU Thinks Big

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Surveying Memory

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The Art and Science Involved in Telling a Great Story - Oct 2021

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Ecological Writing: A Conversation with Diana Fu and Mok Zining

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National Constitutions: Between Global and Local

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Remaining Ourselves in the Global City

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