Attachment Programmes

Most undergraduate courses at NTU emphasize the importance of practical training.  Students are required to undergo a period of attachment in a private or public organisation locally or overseas during their course of study.  The four attachment programmes are listed below.

Programme	Brief Description of Programme
Industrial Attachment (IA)	22-week attachment from January to June (main period) or July to December. For third years students from the engineering schools, i.e.  School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE), School of Computer Engineering (SCE), School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE),  School of Materials Science & Engineering (SME), School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE).  School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering (SCBE), Division of Bioengineering Division of Chemical & Biomolecural Engineering Note: Besides the 22-week Industrial Attachment, engineering students can also opt for 10-week Industrial Orientation or 30-week Enhanced Industrial Attachment. Placements will be sourced by students or the schools.
Industrial Immersion (II)	10-week attachment from May to July. For third year Maritime Studies students.
Professional Attachment (PA)	8 or 10-week attachment from May to July for the following schools: second year Accountancy and Business students from the Nanyang Business School (NBS). third year Humanities and Social Sciences students (HSS).   Business students specialise in one of the following: Actuarial Science, Banking & Finance, Human Resource Consulting, Information Technology, Tourism & Hospitality Management or Marketing. HSS students specialise in one of the following: Chinese, Economics, English, Psychology or Sociology
Professional Internship (PI)	24-week attachment from Jan to June. For 3rd year students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information Students specialise in one of the following: Communication Research, Electronic & Broadcast Media, Journalism & Publishing or Public & Promotional Communication.

Since 1983, more than 5000 organisations have participated in our various attachment programmes. Many of the organisations which have repeatedly participated in the attachment programmes have cited the following benefits derived:

• opportunity to evaluate and recruit potential employees,
• additional manpower to supplement existing staff, and
• fresh ideas and perspective from enthusiastic students.

Besides, participating organisations are also fulfilling their social responsibility by working together with the university to train future employees for the industries.

Please read on to find out more about our local and overseas attachment for NTU students as well as our Reciprocal Exchange Programme with other universities for which we swop students for attachment.

Organisations interested to participates in any of the above programmes, simply complete and return the appropriate form listed in the "How to participate" page.  Alternatively, you can email cao@ntu.edu.sg or fax 67937925 to us with your corresponding details and we will include you in our mailing list.