NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AND NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE AND NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: **

(Supply of student hostels): **

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Er Lee Bee Wah asked the Minister for Education in view of the rising student enrolment (a) how many student hostels are there in the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University; (b) whether these hostels are sufficient to meet the demand; and (c) whether there are plans to build more hostels.

Dr Ng Eng Hen: Currently, there are a total of 6,364 and 9,226 hostel places in the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) respectively. NUS has sufficient hostel places to house 27% of its undergraduates and is in the process of building more hostels. (The current level of provision is equivalent to providing one year's hostel stay for all undergraduates.)

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At NTU, there are sufficient hostel places to allow nearly half (46%) of their undergraduates to stay on campus. NTU will also be increasing their hostel capacity in the next few years to cater to the growing demand.