A: Please click below for the relevant admission requirements for each respective category.

• GCE A-level Holders (For students who went through the local education system)
• Diploma Holders from Polytechnics in Singapore
• International students

Seminar Approach
Instead of the traditional lecture and tutorial format, SMU adopts a seminar teaching approach, where classes are deliberately kept small, averaging 40-50 each, to maximize interaction and stimulate critical thinking. This approach follows the American pedagogy and is instrumental in sharpening communication and presentation skills, as well as developing leadership and teambuilding qualities.

Faculty
SMU's recruitment of faculty is highly selective and rigorous. Using an international network of resources, SMU invests heavily in the selection of quality faculty from around the world. The result is a core of SMU faculty with impressive teaching and research credentials, hailing from varied backgrounds in both the academic and the private sectors. 85% of our faculty have PhDs from Ivy League and top international universities, and have published widely in leading academic or research journals.

Practical Internship
All SMU students are required to complete 12 weeks of internship - ten weeks in a business organisation and two weeks in a voluntary welfare organization. SMU believes that internships serve as a valuable bridge between learning and work experience. The internship with a voluntary welfare organization is integral to SMU's holistic approach to individual development. We believe that a complete education should include shaping individuals as responsible and civic-minded members of society

International Exchange Programme
SMU strongly encourages its students to broaden their outlook and experience abroad by participating in its international exchange programmes, study trips, study missions and overseas attachments. We aim to send as many students as possible to go on exchange. SMU currently has agreements with more than 130 partner universities. Students may study overseas for one or two terms to gain invaluable exposure to different cultures, education systems and work practices. So far, 100% of our students who applied for an exchange programme are successful.

A: As one of the three government-funded universities in Singapore, SMU is the only one that has a collaborative agreement with the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University which have been consistently ranked the top schools in the US in business and IT respectively.

The Government, statutory boards and the private sector offer scholarships that are tenable at SMU. Several companies have even sponsored scholarships exclusively for study at SMU. All these underscore the level of recognition accorded to SMU.

In the case of our BAcc programme, it has received accreditation by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS), Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), CPA Australia, and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia (ICAA). CPA Australia and ICAA have mutual recognition arrangements with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and other accounting institutes around the world, such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). Such recognition gives SMU BAcc graduates international mobility.

According to our latest Graduate Employment Survey 2006:

• 100% of SMU graduates found jobs within 6 months of graduation;
• 71% receiving 2 or more than 10 job offers;
• 80% were offered jobs before they even graduated or within first month of graduation;
• Our top 20% graduate employees earn more than $4,600 per month.