24 July 2019

More polytechnic graduates are apply for and gaining acceptance into law and medicine courses at Singapore’s universities.

NUS law school dean Simon Chesterman said there has been a modest increase of polytechnic students being admitted in the past four years. Similarly, Singapore Management University law school dean Goh Yihan said its number of polytechnic graduates admitted is small but growing.

A spokesman for the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine said it currently has about 50 students across the five years of studies who came from polytechnics. The spokesman said it offered places to six polytechnic graduates this year and all of them have accepted the offers.

More students, from all academic backgrounds, who fall short of the academic requirements to enter NUS medicine have also been accepted through the Exceptional Individual Scheme, which takes into account their personal talents as well as academic and non-academic achievements. These students also go through the same admission process as other applicants.

At Nanyang Technological University, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine has accepted three polytechnic graduates since it started in 2013, one of whom will be graduating later this year.