Ensuring Admission Scores for Engineering Undergraduate Programmes Sufficiently Meet Programme's Rigours

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Education (a) how does the Ministry ensure that admission scores for undergraduate engineering programmes are sufficient to meet the rigours of the programme; and (b) whether the Ministry has guidelines for autonomous universities to have similar admission requirements for degree programmes of comparable intellectual rigour, such as engineering and computer science.

Mr Desmond Lee: The Ministry of Education (MOE) sets minimum eligibility criteria for applications to our autonomous universities (AUs). Beyond this, each AU decides on its own admissions metrics and programme requirements.

While MOE does not prescribe the scores required for admission to programmes at AUs, we closely track the outcomes of AU graduates, including by programme.