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NTU Singapore and UG sign Double Doctorate agreement

30 November 2018

The highly ranked Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Groningen (UG) have signed a Collaborative Degree PhD Programme in Materials and Nanoscience/-engineering. This agreement allows for the co-supervision of PhD students in these fields, by both NTU and UG researchers, leading to a Double Degree for the PhD candidates involved.

The signing ceremony was organized as part of the Singapore state visit to the Netherlands from 20-24 November. Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands witnessed the ceremony, with NTU’s Professor Lam Khin Yong and UG’s Vice President Jan de Jeu as signatories. NTU is ranked #51 in the THE World University Rankings 2019 and #12 in the QS.

For questions, please e-mail Liza Ten Velde, Policy Adviser for Internationalization at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen.

Signing witnessed by Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob and Queen Máxima
Signing witnessed by Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob and Queen Máxima
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