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Collection: Intake, Enrolment and Graduates by Institutions

Dataset: Intake by Institutions

Education

Intake by Institutions

Data from Jan 1982 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 12 Nov 2025, 14:36 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Intake figures include students who entered directly into the second and subsequent years.
University figures are for full-time first degree only.
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.
Polytechnic figures are for full-time diploma courses only.
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.
Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established in 1992 to replace the former Vocational & Industrial Training Board. ITE figures exclude apprentices.

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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_437e089ba21c5221b0d42e3b2636b7f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg vivian_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)

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Education

Intake by Institutions

Data from Jan 1982 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 12 Nov 2025, 14:36 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Intake figures include students who entered directly into the second and subsequent years.
University figures are for full-time first degree only.
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.
Polytechnic figures are for full-time diploma courses only.
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.
Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established in 1992 to replace the former Vocational & Industrial Training Board. ITE figures exclude apprentices.

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Collection: Intake, Enrolment and Graduates by Institutions

Dataset: Intake by Institutions

Education

Intake by Institutions

Data from Jan 1982 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 12 Nov 2025, 14:36 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Intake figures include students who entered directly into the second and subsequent years.
University figures are for full-time first degree only.
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.
Polytechnic figures are for full-time diploma courses only.
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.
Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established in 1992 to replace the former Vocational & Industrial Training Board. ITE figures exclude apprentices.

Sample OpenAPI query

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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_437e089ba21c5221b0d42e3b2636b7f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg vivian_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)

Data explorer

IntakebyInstitutions.csv (86 rows, 5.8 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)41.9%	(Null)65.1%	(Null)69.8%	(Null)74.4%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)18.6%	(Null)23.3%	(Null)48.8%	(Null)53.5%	(Null)69.8%	(Null)53.5%	(Null)67.4%	(Null)0.0%
1982	F	2024	57					739	429	498								1336
1982	MF	3937	582					888	2095	1614								8623
1983	F	2478	63					502	550	892								1985
1983	MF	4161	702					678	2597	2250								8881
1984	F	2217	110					459	776	1139								2115
1984	MF	4441	690					595	2993	3405								6426
1985	F	2308	82					743	767	1476								3265
1985	MF	4654	708					945	3021	3912								11891
1986	F	2581	114					864	703	1461								3811
1986	MF	4897	796					1059	2872	3754								11171

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Nus	nus	Text	-	-
Ntu	ntu	Text	-	-
Smu	smu	Text	-	-
Sit	sit	Text	-	-
Sutd	sutd	Text	-	-
Suss	suss	Text	-	-
Nie	nie	Text	-	-
Singapore Polytechnic	singapore_polytechnic	Text	-	-

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