Program Overview

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Double Degree Programme in Engineering & Business Administration

Overview

The Double Degree Programme (DDP) in Engineering and Business Administration is a special degree programme that combines two disciplines with significant synergies. This DDP is designed to develop the core engineering skills of students to fulfill the requisite professional requirements of their chosen engineering fields. At the same time, this DDP will equip students with the necessary business skills and knowledge in areas such as organisational behavior, finance and accounting, marketing, economics, and business law, among others, to be successful in the business world. This combination of engineering and business skills will produce a new breed of business-savvy engineers for the marketplace.

The DDP can be completed within 5 years (i.e., 10 regular semesters).

Programme Structure and Requirements

The specific requirements for various cohorts may be found below.

Cohort AY2025/2026 Onwards

Nominally, students will need to read 202 units to complete a double-honours DDP in Engineering and Business Administration. They can select one of the following Business majors:

• Applied Business Analytics
• Business Economics
• Finance
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Leadership & Human Capital Management
• Marketing
• Operations & Supply Chain Management

Those pursuing the Accountancy major for their Business degree will need to complete around 210 units.

Requirements | Units | Remarks ---|---|--- General Education courses (common for CDE and Business)

• Data Literacy (4 units)
• Digital Literacy (4 units)
• Critique and Expression (4 units)
• Cultures and Connections (4 units)
• Singapore Studies (4 units)
• Communities and Engagement (4 units) | 24 |
• These courses are classified as CA and contribute toward the GPA for both degree programmes.
• Default courses are as follows:
  • Data Literacy: GEA1000 Quantitative Reasoning with Data
  • Digital Literacy: CS1010% Programming Methodology (any variant)
  • Critique and Expression: ES2631 Critique and Communication of Thinking and Design
  • Singapore Studies: CDE2501 Liveable Cities
• These courses can be fulfilled by those from University Town College Programme (UTCP), Ridge View Residential College (RVRC) programme, and NUS College (NUSC).
• Students can take ST1131, BT1101, or DSA1101 in lieu of GEA1000.
• Students from Industrial and Systems Engineering who have read IE1111R are exempted from GEA1000 and must replace it with 4 units of unrestricted electives.

Other courses in CDE Common Curriculum

• DTK1234 Design Thinking (4 units)
• EG1311% Design and Make (any variant) (4 units)
• EE2211 Introduction to Machine Learning or EE2213 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (4 units)
• PF1101A Project Management and Finance (4 units) | 16 |
• These courses are classified as C1 for students whose home Faculty is CDE and C2 for those whose home Faculty is Business.
• Students with accredited diplomas for their Engineering degree programme may be exempted from DTK1234, EG1311%, and/or PF1101A.

Other courses in Business Common Curriculum

• BSP1702 Legal Environment for Business (4 units)
• BSP1703 Managerial Economics (4 units)
• DAO1704 Decision Analytics Using Spreadsheets (4 units)
• RE1707 Real Estate, Society and Enterprise (2 units)
• FSP4003 Field Service Project (8 units) | 22 |
• These courses are classified as C2 for students whose home Faculty is CDE and C1 for those whose home Faculty is Business.
• Students are exempted from ES2002 if they read ES2631 or equivalent courses in UTCP, RVRC, or NUSC for Critique and Expression. Students whose home Faculty is Business who withdraw from the DDP after reading ES2631 will be considered as having fulfilled the Critique and Expression pillar, but would have to read ES2002 if they have not read ES2002 or a preclusion of ES2002.
• Students are exempted from MNO2707 if they read EG2401A. Students whose home Faculty is Business who withdraw from the DDP after reading EG2401A do not need to read MNO2707.
• Students may seek approval from Business to double-count Integrated Project in the Engineering major towards FSP4003.

Engineering major

• Basket of Mathematics courses (8 units)
• EG2401A Engineering Professionalism (2 units)
• Integrated Project (8 units)
• Internship (10 units)
• Engineering discipline-specific core and elective courses (52 units) | 80 |
• These courses are classified as C1 for students whose home Faculty is CDE and C2 for those whose home Faculty is Business.
• Students in this DDP are NOT exempted from internship. The 10 units of internship can be fulfilled through a combination of approved internship courses.
• Polytechnic-intake and other students who have received advanced placements credits for the internship requirement will be considered as having fulfilled the requirement.

Business major

• Business function courses (24 units)
• Restricted courses (36 units or 44 units) | 60 or 68 |
• It is not compulsory for DDP students to select a business major for the BBA degree, but they are still required to complete at least 36 units of restricted courses for a general management major. Students who wish to major in a business area may have to read extra courses to meet the requirements of the major.
• Students whose home Faculty is Business who withdraw from the DDP are required to have a major in a business area.
• Students who are in the BBA (Accountancy) degree must complete 44 units of restricted courses for the major.

Business non-credit graduating requirements

• STR1000 Career Creation Starter Workshops
• STR2000 Career Creation Starter Clinics
• Work Experience Milestone
• Global Experience Milestone | 0 |
• DDP students who complete the 10 units of internship courses for their Engineering major while they are enrolled in NUS will be deemed to have satisfied the Business Work Experience Milestone, but polytechnic-intake and other students who have received advanced placements credits for the Engineering internship requirement must complete another form of internship (credit-bearing or otherwise) to fulfill the Business Work Experience Milestone.
• Global Experience Milestone may be fulfilled through student exchange, overseas internship, case competition, study trip, etc.

Total (minimum) | 202 or 210 |

Double Counting of Integrated Project and FSP4003

Students may seek approval from the NUS Business School to double-count the Integrated Project course in their Engineering major towards FSP4003 if they pursue one of the following:

• Option 1: Work on a group project in the Integrated Project course which has a significant business element. The business element will not be graded as a part of the Integrated Project course, but students will require Business to endorse the project scope at the start of the project and submit an additional write-up to the NUS Business School at the end of the project.
• Option 2: Read CDE4301A Ideas to Start-up (12 units) which is one of the choices for the Integrated Project courses. CDE4301A covers both technical and business development of new product or service. Each project team in CDE4301A typically has between two and four students. For students who choose this option, 8 units from CDE4301A will be double-counted towards FSP4003 while the remaining 4 units will be counted as unrestricted electives. CDE4301A is offered by the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre under its Innovation & Design Programme.

For both options above, the Integrated Project course (including CDE4301A) cannot be counted towards another requirement (e.g., Second Major, Minor, Specialisation) since it would already be double-counted towards FSP4003.

Students who are able to double-count Integrated Project toward FSP4003 can complete the DDP with a minimum of 194 units (202 units for those in Accountancy).

Admission

Students will be admitted into this DDP only if they meet the requirements of both the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) and the NUS Business School. A committee comprising staff members from both CDE and Business will review the applications. An applicant’s co-curricular achievements may be considered as part of the selection criteria.

Admission at Matriculation

Students who are applying to NUS may select this DDP in their NUS application form. Applicants must meet the admission requirements of both degree programmes.

Successful applicants will be admitted into the DDP when they matriculate in NUS, i.e., at the start of their first semester.

Mid-stream Admission (Cohort AY2024/2025 Onwards)

Current students who are interested in pursuing this DDP must meet the following criteria at the point of admission into the DDP:

• Minimum GPA of 4.00 (before exercising the S/U option on any course) for their first degree programme.
• Completed between 60 units and 80 units (excluding units earned from student exchange programmes or advanced placement credits), i.e., typically in the third, fourth, or fifth semester in NUS. Students cannot enroll in this DDP after the end of their fifth semester.
• Passed at least 12 units of courses from the major in the second degree programme, including the gateway course(s) for the Engineering major (for students whose home Faculty is Business) but excluding courses that are counted towards both degree programmes (e.g., General Education courses).
• Obtained a minimum GPA of 4.00 (before exercising the S/U option), i.e., average grade of B+, for the courses from the major in the second degree programme.
• Able to complete both degree programmes within a maximum candidature period of 10 regular semesters.

In addition to the above, students may also need to go through an interview. Admission is subject to availability of vacancies in the second degree programme and may be subject to other factors such as performance during the interview and quality of other applicants.

The application window is open between Week 6 and Week 11 of each regular semester. Applications submitted before or after this window will not be accepted. Applications will be reviewed after the release of examination results for the same semester, and the outcome will be made known within 2 to 3 weeks from the release of examination results.

Candidature Period and Tuition Fees

The normal candidature period for the single honours and double honours DDP are 9 and 10 consecutive semesters, respectively. Students in a DDP are required to pay only the prevailing tuition fee of their home Faculty's degree programme.

Students who take longer than the normal candidature period to complete this DDP will have to pay partial non-subsidised fees, culminating in full non-subsidised fees, during the extended semesters.

Completion and Exit

Students from Cohorts AY2018/2019 to AY2020/2021 are required to leave this DDP if any of the following occurs:

• GPA below 3.75 for the first degree programme for two consecutive semesters
• GPA below 3.25 for the second degree programme for two consecutive semesters
• Combination of both for two consecutive semesters

Students from Cohorts AY2021/2022 are required to leave this DDP if their GPA for one or both degree programmes is below 3.50 for two consecutive semesters.

Students can also choose to leave this DDP on their own accord by submitting their request to their home Faculty between the release of examination results of the immediate past semester and by the first week of the following semester. Students should consider their decision carefully as it is irrevocable. Those who have withdrawn from this DDP will not be readmitted into the DDP regardless of their GPA.

Upon exit from this DDP, students will return to their home Faculty for their single degree programme. Students whose home Faculty is CDE must complete the compulsory internship requirement in their single degree programme. The separate GPAs for the two degrees will be combined into a single GPA, using all courses from both degree programmes.