Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy - Campus

Campus

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is situated at the Bukit Timah campus together with the NUS Law Faculty, next to the Singapore Botanic Gardens. It is based primarily in the Manassah Meyer and Oei Tiong Ham buildings.

The NUS Bukit Timah campus has a long, established history. The campus was built in 1920s in order to facilitate the Raffles College, then served as headquarters of Japanese Army during the Japanese occupation. The site was became the campus for the Singapore Division of University of Malaya in 1949, then The University of Singapore in 1962, and the merged National University of Singapore in 1980.

After NUS moved its campus to Kent Ridge, the site was served as the campus of the National Institute of Education and Singapore Management University (SMU) respectively. After SMU moved into their permanent campus at Bras Basah in 2005, the campus was returned to NUS, and became the campus for NUS Law School and the School of Public Policy in the following year.

Before the December 2006 move to Bukit Timah, the school was located at Heng Mui Keng Terrace on the NUS's main Kent Ridge campus. There it shared an office park with the Institute for Policy Studies, World Intellectual Property Organization, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.N