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Education

Intake, Enrolment and Graduates of Universities by Course

Data from Jan 2005 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 12 Dec 2024, 11:21 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Universities refers to National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore University of Technology & Design and Singapore University of Social Sciences.

(2) Intake, enrolment and graduates figures refer to full-time first degree only.

(3) Intake figures include students who entered directly into second and subsequent years.

(4) Courses are classified according to course content of the highest weighting. Total intake and enrolment figures include students in courses that are not elsewhere classified.

Data explorer

IntakeEnrolmentandGraduatesofUniversitiesbyCourse.csv (570 rows, 22.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Course Text	Intake Text	Enrolment Text	Graduates Text
(Null)0.0% 20055.3% 20065.3% 20075.3% 20085.3%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0% Law6.7% Medicine6.7% Services6.7% Dentistry6.7%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2005	MF	Accountancy	876	2561	706
2005	F	Accountancy	530	1732	495
2005	MF	Architecture, Building & Real Estate	299	1310	180
2005	F	Architecture, Building & Real Estate	175	786	106
2005	MF	Business & Administration	1545	5013	1256
2005	F	Business & Administration	901	3098	898
2005	MF	Dentistry	33	139	34
2005	F	Dentistry	19	67	12
2005	MF	Education	0	0	0
2005	F	Education	0	0	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Course	course	Text	-	-
Intake	intake	Text	-	-
Enrolment	enrolment	Text	-	-
Graduates	graduates	Text	-	-

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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_6b264092cd066c55d8e2db9e68e7ffdb"
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, Enrolment and Graduates of Universities by Course (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6b264092cd066c55d8e2db9e68e7ffdb/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)