Unit Ratio - previously known as MC Ratio

Units - previously known as MC

Courses - previously known as Modules

This list refers to a full semester load for their students at some of our partner universities and it is equivalent to 20 Units which is the normal semester load at NUS. Please look at the individual partner university information carefully. This is not an exhaustive list. This list is made known to students so that they know for any given courses, the number of Units they are allocated.

For students who read courses on summer school, please also use this list to figure out the number of Units that is attached to the course that you are doing. For example, if you are doing a 6 credit course at a ANU summer school, then it is worth 6/24 X 20 units= 5 units at NUS.

Please also note that where the Department has mapped an actual NUS code for any of your courses at SEP or Summer / Winter Programme (SWP), the Unit Ratio indicated here for that university will still apply. The course may not be worth 4 units. For example, if you did a Sociology course at Fudan University that is worth 2 credits at Fudan and Sociology maps it to a SC2204. This course will only receive 3 Units (2 credits/15 X 20 units) and not 4 Unit and a dummy code in Sociology will be given to you. Dummy codes cannot be used to fulfill specific module requirements that require the actual code.

 

Australian / New Zealand Universities
Australian National University 24 credits	University of Sydney 24 credits
Monash University 24 credits	University of Western Australia 24 credits
University of Adelaide 12 credits	University of Auckland 60 credits
University of Melbourne 50 credits	University of Canterbury 60 credits
University of New South Wales 24 credits	University of Otago 60 credits
University of Queensland 8 credits	Victoria University of Wellington 60 credits

 

Canadian Universities
Concordia University 15 credits	University of Calgary 15 credits
McGill University 15 credits	University of Guelph 2.5 academic course units
Queen's University at Kingston 2.5 academic course units or 15 credits	University of Ottawa 15 credits
Simon Fraser University 15 credits	University of Toronto 15 credits/2.5 academic course units
York University 15 credits	University of Victoria 7.5 credits
University of Alberta *15 (where * is the credit value system)	University of Waterloo 2.5 academic course units
University of British Columbia 15 credits	University of Western Ontario/ Western University 2.5 academic course units
Dalhousie University 15 credits

 

Japanese Universities
Akita International University 15 credits	Rikkyo University 16 credits
Hokkaido University 16 credits	Ritsuimeikan University 16 credits
Keio University 16 credits	Tohoku University 16 credits
Kwansei Gakuin University 16 credits	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) 16 credits
Kyoto University 16 credits	Waseda University 16 credits
Kyushu University 16 credits	University of Tokyo 16 credits
Osaka University 16 credits	Nagoya University 16 credits
Meiji University 16 credits	International Christian University 32 credits (Year-long only)

 

All European Universities except UK Universities - 30 ECTS UK Universities - 60 credits / 30 ECTS
King's College London 60 credits	Erasmus University Rotterdam 30 ECTS
Loughborough University 60 credits	Lund University 30 ECTS
Royal Holloway, University of London 30 ECTS	Norwegian University of Science and Technology 30 ECTS
University College London 60 credits	Sciences Po 30 ECTS
University of Birmingham 60 credits	Tallinn University of Technology 30 ECTS
University of Bristol 60 credits	University of Aarhus 30 ECTS
University of Edinburgh 60 credits	University of Antwerp 30 ECTS
University of Glasgow 60 credits	University of Copenhagen 30 ECTS
University of Leeds 60 credits	University of Geneva 30 ECTS
University of Manchester 60 credits	University of Helsinki 30 ECTS
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 60 credits	University of Lausanne 30 ECTS
University of Nottingham 60 credits	University of Oslo 30 ECTS
University of Sheffield 60 credits	University of Zagreb 30 ECTS
University of York 60 credits	Vilnius University, Lithuania 20 credits (National) = 30 ECTS
University of Warwick 60 CAT	University of Iceland 30 ECTS

 

US Universities
Arizona State University 15 credits	University of Arizona 15 credits
Boston University 16 credits	Boston College 15 credits
University of Connecticut 15 credits	University of Colorado Boulder 15 credits
Carnegie-Mellon University 45 units	University of Hawaii, Manoa 15 credits
Case Western Reserve University 15 credits	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 15 credits
College of William and Mary 15 credits	University of Miami 15 credits
Cornell University 15 credits	University of Michigan 15 credits
Emory University 15 credits	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15 credits
George Washington University 15 credits	University of Pennsylvania 5 Course Units (CU)
Georgia Institute of Technology 15 credits	University of Pittsburgh 15 credits
University of Georgia 15 credits	University of Kansas 15 credits
Harvard University 4 courses	University of Texas, Austin 15 credit hours
Pennsylvania State University 15 credits	University of Virginia 15 credit hours
Purdue University 15 credits	University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 credit hours
Rice University 15 credits	Yale University 4 courses
Texas A & M University, Texas 15 credits	Tecnologico De Monterrey (Mexico) 15 credit hours
University of Florida 15 credits	University of Maryland 15 credits
Tulane University 15 credits	Brandeis University 16 credits
University of Alaska, Fairbanks 15 credits	Georgetown University 15 credits
University of Notre Dame 15 credits	Clarkson University 15 credits
Columbia University 15 credits	Stanford University 15 credits
Princeton University 4 courses

 

Northwestern University
Quarter Units (courses)	NUS units	Remarks
3	12	Students are limited to 3 to 4 units per quarter

 

University of Oregon
Quarter Credits	NUS units	Remarks
22.5	20	Students are limited to a maximum quarter credit load of 13-16 credits per quarter

 

University of Washington at Seattle
Quarter Credits	NUS units	Remarks
22.5	20	Students are limited to a maximum quarter credit load of 18 per quarter

 

University of California Campus except Berkeley
Workload	Quarter units	NUS units
Normal	15	20

 

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley	Semester units	NUS units
Normal	16	20

 

Other Universities
Bilkent University 15 Bilkent credits/ 30ECTS	University of Pretoria 60 credits
Sabanci University 15 credits	Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya 15 credits
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 15 credits

 

China/ Hong Kong/ Taiwan Universities
Fudan University 15 credits	Nanjing University 15 credits
Nankai University 15 credits	Peking University 15 credits
Shandong University 15 credits	Shanghai Jiao Tong University 15 credits
Sichuan University 15 credits	Sun Yat Sen University 14 credits
Tsinghua University 15 credits	Xiamen University 15 credits
Zhejiang University 15 credits	National Cheng Kung University 12 credits
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Unviersity 12 credits	National Chengchi University 15 credits
National Taiwan University 15 credits	National Tsing Hua University 15 credits
Chinese University of Hong Kong 15 credits	City University of Hong Kong 15 credits
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 15 credits	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 15 credits
University of Hong Kong 30 credits

 

Korean Universities
Korea University 15 credits	Seoul National University 15 credits
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 15 credits	Yonsei University 15 credits
Ewha Womans University 15 credits	Hanyang University 15 credits
Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) 15 credits	Pusan National University 15 credits
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 15 credits
*Please note that for summer courses read at any of the Korean universities listed above, a 3-credit module will map back as 4 units with module mapping approval.

 

Southeast Asian Universities
Ateneo De Manila University 15 credits	Khon Kaen University 15 credits
Chulalongkorn University 18 credits	Mahidol University 16 credits

 

Singapore Universities
Singapore Management University 4 courses	Nanyang Technological University 15 credits (Starting AY2021/22)
Singapore University of Technology and Design 48 credits	Singapore University of Social Sciences 25 CU