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Intake, Enrolment and Graduates by Institutions

Enrolment by Institutions

Education

Enrolment by Institutions

Data from Jan 1982 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 10 Dec 2024, 11:36 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

EnrolmentbyInstitutions.csv (84 rows, 6.1 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%
1982MF1109358210005339366010303
1982F556357808106911532130
1983MF11939126710786136482510664
1983F6596120853131816502753
1984MF127211945776712969199419
1984F7076230605167923742831
1985MF13617207811667894851613890
1985F7396253922192429933839
1986MF14150220213318099961714666
1986F75813021093204134704682

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

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ec8a16e11a050f11880fb6d4a0e6f93f"
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). Enrolment by Institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ec8a16e11a050f11880fb6d4a0e6f93f/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)