Ensuring Admission Scores for Engineering Undergraduate Programmes Sufficiently Meet Programme’s Rigours

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim, Sengkang GRC

Question

To ask the Minister for Education (a) how does the Ministry ensure that admission scores for undergraduate engineering programmes are sufficient to meet the rigours of the programme; and (b) whether the Ministry has guidelines for autonomous universities to have similar admission requirements for degree programmes of comparable intellectual rigour, such as engineering and computer science.

Response

1. MOE sets minimum eligibility criteria for applications to our autonomous universities (AUs). Beyond this, each AU decides on its own admissions metrics and programme requirements.

2. While MOE does not prescribe the scores required for admission to programmes at the AUs, we closely track the outcomes of AU graduates, including by programme.