IN 1997, the Economic Development Board set out to get 10 world-class universities to establish bases in Singapore by 2008.

So far, more then ten universities with strengths in different fields, such as medicine and logistics, have set up home here. They are:

• Medicine
- Johns Hopkins, the United States. partners NUS in joint PhD programme in basic sciences and clinical research.

• Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the US joint effort with NUS, NTU to offer graduate engineering and computer-science programmes.

- Technische Universiteit of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. set up with NUS the Design Technology Institute to offer the Master of Technological Design.

- Singapore Stanford Partnership: Joint effort between Stanford University and NTU to offer graduate
environmental engineering programmes

• Business
- Insead, France, offer MBA programme

- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the US, offer MBA programme|

- University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, the US, tie-up with Singapore Management University.

- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, partners NTU to offer MBA programmes.

• Hotel Management
- Cornell University in the United States tie up with NANYANG Technological University (NTU) to run postgraduate courses in hotel management.

• Logistics
- Georgia Institute of Technology, the US. and NUS partner to offer a dual Master of Science degree in logistics.

• Science and Technology
- The Technical University of Munich, Germany, tie-up with NUS to offer a joint master's in industrial chemistry.