The Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore
5 July 2015

Note: The area of coverage in this Worldview-3 image is 2.028 km x 2.155 km.
The reduced resolution image on display has undergone compression and so does not represent the true resolution of the original satellite image.

Higher education began in Singapore in 1905, when a medical college was established. More than a century later, this has developed into the National University of Singapore, the main campus of which is at Kent Ridge. Building the campus began in the late 1970s on the wooded slopes of Kent Ridge Hill, site of a major battle in 1942. Initially, the campus was approximately bound by the Ayer Rajah Expressway, running diagonally across the image, and Clementi Road, towards the western margin. It has since expanded beyond these boundaries. University Town, popularly known as the U-Town, is on the other side of the Expressway and has enlarged teaching, research, residential and recreational facilities. University Town is linked to the rest of the campus by a bridge over the Expressway, which shows in the image as a curved white and grey line. University Hall, the administrative centre of the University, with its circular roof tower, is located at the centre of the image between the wooded slopes of Kent Ridge and the playing fields towards the Expressway. Roofs of the teaching buildings across the campus are in pale blue, grey and white while the older student hostels can be identified by their red roofs. The new hostels tend to be higher and are in a variety of styles. There are three white circular structures in the green woods of Kent Ridge. The biggest, to the west is the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source research facility. The cultural complex and the museum buildings of the University are in the triangular piece of land between the Expressway and Clementi Road. Further to the northwest is the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science with a set of buildings around a large sports field. South of the expressway, and separated from the teaching campus by Clementi Road, are the buildings of Kent Vale, where overseas teaching staff are accommodated. The University Hospital is the large accumulation of buildings at the other end, the southeastern corner of the image. Several other educational institutions of Singapore are located towards the northeast, beyond the Expressway.