Lower income students can study to be doctors for at most $5,000 per year with bursaries NDR2019 Singapore
SINGAPORE – In a move to increase the socio-economic diversity of Singapore doctors, the government will enhance its bursaries for medical courses, to make them significantly more than bursaries for other university courses.
This year, the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine welcomed its first Institute of Technical Education graduate, who was one of about 280 students accepted out of 2,000 applicants. For a general degree programme in NUS, like Economics or Computer Science, full fees are about $8,000 a year. “Previously, a lower income student pays around $4,000 a year. If he uses his bursary fully on the fees, after the bursary enhancement, he will pay only $2,000 a year,” Lee illustrated.
MOE also looked at the root of tertiary education costs - the basic price of a full-time tertiary education. More than just dollars and centsLee took pains to point out that “the point of these changes, to fees and bursaries, is not just the dollars and cents”.
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