NUS offers many global mobility programs to give students international experience including double degrees, exchange programs, internships, and short-term study trips. These programs provide opportunities for students to gain cross-cultural experience in Asia and around the world at partner universities, prestigious colleges, and companies in emerging markets and entrepreneurial hubs. Students benefit from international work experience while countries benefit from the transfer of skills and ideas between cultures.

1. NUS Global Mobility
Innovation & Impact:

2. and the world
we nurture students
to understand Asia
As a leading
centred in Asia,
global university
NUS is Singapore’s flagship university.
Our reputation for excellence is built on
Education and research innovation
Discoveries and initiatives that contribute to
country and society

3. Student exchange
and internships
degrees with top
>70double,
and concurrent
universities
Our distinctive
global programmes
joint
NUS Global
Internships
Study Trips for
Engagement &
Intl research
EnRichment
(STEER)
attachment
programmes
Long term (> 6 months)
Short term (< 6 months)

4. 2012
StubHub
2014
Zendesk
(an eBay company)
Global internships
Regional focus
Provide students with
opportunities to
intern with overseas
organizations, with a
regional focus.
Funding opportunities
• Go SEA Award
• NUS Global Internship
Award
• China Initiatives
Steering Committee
(CISC) Funding
• Enterprise Singapore’s
Young Talent
Programme
Benefits:
Students Host
country
Home
country
Cross
cultural
working
experience
Vibrancy in
work
environment
/ new ideas
Transfer of
skills when
students
return

5. Study
Intern
entrepreneurial hubs
partner universities
NUS Overseas Colleges
9around the world
world’s most exciting
at some of the
at prestigious
STOCKHOLM
MUNICH
LAUSANNE
ISRAEL
BEIJING
SHANGHAI
SINGAPORE
SILICON VALLEY
NEW YORK
Established in 2002
> 2,200 NOC alumni
Providing entrepreneurship
> 300 start-ups founded by NOC alumni
education through internships
NUS Overseas Colleges

6. 2-3 weeks, 30 students
Study Trips for Engagement
Familiarise students with the diverse
Mix of classroom-based learning and
and EnRichment (STEER)
socio-cultural-economic environments
of new and fast-evolving regions
experiential site visits
STEER Middle East (Qatar)
STEER Myanmar

7. Some Study Trips for Engagement
and EnRichment (STEER) locations..
SAUDI ARABIA
UAE /
OMAN
CHINA
(Chengdu
Yunnan
Wuhan
Xi’An)
KAZAKHSTAN
INDONESIA BRAZIL
COSTA RICA
BOTSWANA
MYANMAR
Target regions: Emerging economies
Good fit for short term programmes as such
regions often do not offer many opportunities
for long term programmes (language, academic
PANAMA
THAILAND
Since 2010,
> 1200 students
> 50 trips
parity etc.)

8. Benefits:
Students Host
country
Home
country
Exposure and
breaking
stereotypes /
Discover new
economic
opportinities
Interaction between
local and NUS
students /
Returning NUS
students for
internships in host city
Future-ready
graduates working
in SG companies
expanding in these
markets
Study Trips for Engagement
and EnRichment (STEER)
STEER Myanmar

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