The University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) — formed by an alliance between LASALLE College of the Arts and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) — will welcome its first cohort of students in August 2024.
The new university will offer an expanded range of programmes in fine arts, design, media arts, performing arts and arts management, as well as in new and upcoming areas in the applied arts.
Professor Kwok Kian Woon will be the university’s inaugural Vice-Chancellor and chief executive. He said: "The UAS can be a very special institution of higher learning, transforming arts education and energising our cultural landscape and the creative economy. Our artists, who are also educators at the same time, have much to offer to our next generations of artists and creative citizens."
