Singapore University of Technology and Design : Rankings, Fees & Courses Details

About Singapore University of Technology and Design

SUTD is the world’s first Design·AI university.

The AI future that used to be called Science Fiction, is Here. Is Now.

At SUTD, we are reimagining education and research for this new era. We are no longer solutioning for the “old world” with “old tools”, we are redefining education, research and innovation with Design·AI – for new world problems. As the world’s first Design·AI University, we unite design, artificial intelligence, and human values to shape a future where people and technology co-create seamlessly.

SUTD isn’t preparing for the post-AI world – we’re already living it.

What is Design·AI?

With our strong foundation in cohort-based learning and interdisciplinary pedagogy, our pivot to artificial intelligence (AI) centres on the notion that AI is not just a tool, but a partner and that AI, just like technology and design, is an integral part of SUTD’s education and research.

By going beyond its traditional role as a technological tool, AI in SUTD is viewed as an invaluable part of the team, working hand-in-hand with its human counterparts, leveraging on each other’s strengths, to exchange ideas to develop innovative solutions that are several notches higher compared to if AI was merely acting based on instructions from humans.

This concept of “innovation beyond human imagination” is based on research at SUTD’s Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities that found that mastery in the AI/digital age is grounded in knowing how to work with many people and machines.

Contrary to the “Turing Test”, which pushed the frontiers of AI but inadvertently ended up pitting AI against humans, putting them in competition, and hence dislocating humans in work, SUTD’s research concluded that the future must be “Not Turing”.

SUTD’s Design·AI principle puts the human back at the centre and leverages human and AI imagination on the very real-world concept of teamwork. It seeks to understand where humans do better than AI; where AI does better than humans; and where one of the team players is an AI model, ensures that the resultant outputs are far beyond anything either AI or humans can conceive.

Pillars, Clusters and Programmes:

Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD)
Design and Artificial Intelligence (DAI)
Engineering Product Development (EPD)
Engineering Systems and Design (ESD)
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD)
Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT)

For more information on SUTD, please visit https://www.sutd.edu.sg

About Singapore University of Technology and Design

SUTD is the world’s first Design·AI university.

The AI future that used to be called Science Fiction, is Here. Is Now.

At SUTD, we are reimagining education and research for this new era. We are no longer solutioning for the “old world” with “old tools”, we are redefining education, research and innovation with Design·AI – for new world problems. As the world’s first Design·AI University, we unite design, artificial intelligence, and human values to shape a future where people and technology co-create seamlessly.

SUTD isn’t preparing for the post-AI world – we’re already living it.

What is Design·AI?

With our strong foundation in cohort-based learning and interdisciplinary pedagogy, our pivot to artificial intelligence (AI) centres on the notion that AI is not just a tool, but a partner and that AI, just like technology and design, is an integral part of SUTD’s education and research.

By going beyond its traditional role as a technological tool, AI in SUTD is viewed as an invaluable part of the team, working hand-in-hand with its human counterparts, leveraging on each other’s strengths, to exchange ideas to develop innovative solutions that are several notches higher compared to if AI was merely acting based on instructions from humans.

This concept of “innovation beyond human imagination” is based on research at SUTD’s Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities that found that mastery in the AI/digital age is grounded in knowing how to work with many people and machines.

Contrary to the “Turing Test”, which pushed the frontiers of AI but inadvertently ended up pitting AI against humans, putting them in competition, and hence dislocating humans in work, SUTD’s research concluded that the future must be “Not Turing”.

SUTD’s Design·AI principle puts the human back at the centre and leverages human and AI imagination on the very real-world concept of teamwork. It seeks to understand where humans do better than AI; where AI does better than humans; and where one of the team players is an AI model, ensures that the resultant outputs are far beyond anything either AI or humans can conceive.

Pillars, Clusters and Programmes:

Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD)
Design and Artificial Intelligence (DAI)
Engineering Product Development (EPD)
Engineering Systems and Design (ESD)
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD)
Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT)

For more information on SUTD, please visit https://www.sutd.edu.sg

University information

Total students

2,847

UG students

NA

PG students

NA

Total faculty staff

582

Domestic staff

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Int'l staff

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Cost of Living

Our staff and student accommodations are conveniently located on campus, just a stone's throw away from the academic blocks and sports facilities.

For more information on Housing, please visit https://www.sutd.edu.sg/campus-life/housing/

Scholarships

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