Acknowledged as one of the finest universities in the Asia-Pacific region, NUS is a comprehensive university which offers a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment. It has 10 faculties, with an enrolment of 22,000 undergraduate and 8,600 graduate students. NUS actively promotes innovation and entrepreneurship, both in the classroom and research facilities. It enjoys a close teaching-research nexus with 10 national-level institutes, 14 university-level research institutes and more than 50 faculty-based research centres. The University is strongly committed to its realization as a global knowledge enterprise dedicated to imparting, creation and utilization of knowledge.

The "Make It Real! Programme" is in line with the University's vision to provide optimum opportunities for students to participate in activities that will enhance their character development; and bring out their enterprising spirit to face austerity and the unknown. The whole experience will certainly widen the students' horizon and make them better leaders in both the university and the community at large.