The NUS History Department offers training at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Each year, approximately 5,000 undergraduates enroll in a slate of about 50 modules.
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For a student of History, it is important to learn to handle, criticise and analyse large volumes of information. Such skills are more relevant than ever in our big-data and social-media driven times, as information and dis-information spread in professional circles and in public discourse.

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April 9, 2025

NUS Asia Research Institute receives S$3 million gift to establish the Nalanda Endowed Professorship in India-China Studies

Gifted by the Nalanda Library Fund Limited, the Professorship will promote research and education in India-China relations.

April 2, 2025

NUS Singapore History Prize doubles from S$50,000 to S$100,000

A second ‘Arts and Multimedia’ category has also been created to recognise deserving works in non-print media in addition to books.

March 13, 2025

22 NUS programmes in global top 10 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025

History of Art, Geography, Linguistics and Politics & International Studies at NUS ranked in the Global Top 10 of the latest Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS WUR) by Subject 2025 released on 12 March 2025.

January 3, 2025

NUS alumnus and aspiring migration anthropologist wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford

Salifian Sulaiman (NUS History and International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, 2024) tells us that his interest in anthropology and migration studies is motivated by a concern for uplifting vulnerable and minority communities worldwide, as well as his own experiences.