Singapore has several different levels of higher education, including Institutes of Technical Education, Polytechnics, universities and private (autonomous) institutions. There are also a number of universities from Australia, the US, Canada and Europe who have campuses in the country or partnerships with local universities, offering students to follow an international course at a lower cost.

Government funded colleges
Lasalle college of Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Institute of Technical Education (ITE)
There are four levels of certification achieved at ITE
• National ITE Certificate (NITEC),
• Higher NITEC,
• Master NITEC and
• Technical Engineering Diploma in Machine Technology (TED).

Foreign Universities that have study centres
INSEAD
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Logistics Institute, Asia Pacific
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Singapore MIT Alliance
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Stanford University
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania- Wharton SMU Research
TechnischeUniversiteitEindhoven - Design Technology Institute
TechnischeUniversitatMunchen- German Institute of Science and Technology