Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) was set up on 1 August 1981 with a sanction to prepare seventy five percent of Singapore's architects. At the point when NTI began in 1982, it had an aggregate understudy populace of 582 in three designing orders – common and basic, electrical and electronic, and mechanical and generation building. By 1990, the establishment's undergrad understudy populace had developed to 6,832. The initial two graduate understudies were conceded in 1986. Three designing schools were included, and the School of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore was moved to NTI in 1987. A school of connected science was additionally begun. In 1990, the administration declared that the Institute of Education would be converged with the College of Physical Education to shape the National Institute of Education and that it would be a piece of the new NTU upon its foundation in 1991. 

Notwithstanding the comparable name, it is not identified with Nanyang University ("南大"), the nearby Chinese-medium tertiary foundation which converged with the University of Singapore in 1980 to frame the National University of Singapore. NTI was built up the next year and assumed control over the previous Nanyang University's structure.

In 1991, NTI merged with the National Institute of Education (NIE) to form Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The alumni rolls of the former Nanyang University were transferred to NTU in 1996. NTU became autonomous in 2006 and is today one of the two largest public universities in Singapore.