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Intake, Enrolment and Graduates by Institutions

Intake by Institutions

Education

Intake by Institutions

Data from Jan 1982 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 10 Dec 2024, 11:34 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

  1. Intake figures include students who entered directly into the second and subsequent years.

  2. University figures are for full-time first degree only.

  3. National Institute of Education (NIE) figures are for Diplomas and Post-graduate Diplomas in education-related subjects. BA / BSc (Education) figures are included under Nanyang Technological University. There is an increase in the AY2023 figures from previous years due to changes in how the figures are accounted.

  4. Polytechnic figures are for full-time diploma courses only.

  5. LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) first degree figures are for publicly-funded full-time courses (started in 2012 and 2011 respectively) only.

  6. Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established in 1992 to replace the former Vocational & Industrial Training Board. ITE figures exclude apprentices.

Data explorer

IntakebyInstitutions.csv (84 rows, 5.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Nus
Text
Ntu
Text
Smu
Text
Sit
Text
Sutd
Text
Suss
Text
Nie
Text
Singapore Polytechnic
Text
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Text
Temasek Polytechnic
Text
Nanyang Polytechnic
Text
Republic Polytechnic
Text
Lasalle Diploma
Text
Lasalle Degree
Text
Nafa Diploma
Text
Nafa Degree
Text
Ite
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)42.9%
(Null)66.7%
(Null)71.4%
(Null)76.2%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)19.0%
(Null)23.8%
(Null)50.0%
(Null)54.8%
(Null)71.4%
(Null)54.8%
(Null)69.0%
(Null)0.0%
1982MF3937582888209516148623
1982F2024577394294981336
1983MF4161702678259722508881
1983F2478635025508921985
1984MF4441690595299334056426
1984F221711045977611392115
1985MF46547089453021391211891
1985F23088274376714763265
1986MF489779610592872375411171
1986F258111486470314613811

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SexsexText--
NusnusText--
NtuntuText--
SmusmuText--
SitsitText--
SutdsutdText--
SusssussText--
NienieText--
Singapore Polytechnicsingapore_polytechnicText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_437e089ba21c5221b0d42e3b2636b7f0"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2019). Intake by Institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_437e089ba21c5221b0d42e3b2636b7f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

15 Jan 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)