Fostering Rigour And Relevance
— 1980s During the early 80s, the Singapore economy underwent a second industrial revolution which saw the growth of technologically-advanced and knowledge intensive initiatives. The rapid pace of development boosted business education’s appeal. The School’s aim of grooming talent for the fast-developing market saw it playing a critical role in sharing its knowledge with the community and developing Singapore as a hub for business education. During this decade, the School moved to its current campus at Kent Ridge, and with that came a slew of new initiatives. Executive education was introduced with the School’s partnership with the University of Texas at Austin to provide a two week General Management programme. In 1983, the first Stanford-NUS executive programme was launched in Asia for senior managers with more than 10 years of experience. Meanwhile, the BBA cohort reached 200 and the student numbers soared with the launch of the full-time MBA course in 1980.
From 21 to 200, we were full house.
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Administration block, Kent Ridge Campus.