As artificial intelligence reshapes education and the workplace, universities must help learners use the technology effectively without allowing essential human capabilities to erode, said Professor Alan Chan, Provost of Singapore Management University (SMU).
Thought leaders from Singapore, Shanghai and Edinburgh examined how AI was increasingly shaping how people learned, worked, made decisions, and accessed services at the 2026 SMU-Fudan Global Forum at SMU on 3 October.
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SMU Alumni Homecoming 2026 brought alumni from across the years back to campus, as T-Junction came alive with reunions, performances, family-friendly activities, alumni showcases and opportunities to reconnect with the University community.
For the fifth time in six years, SMU has been named one of The Straits Times Singapore’s Best Employers 2026 – recognition that reflects the University’s ongoing commitment to a supportive, progressive and people-centred workplace.
SMU hosted the inaugural SMU Alumni Awards 2025 on 12 November 2025 at SMU Hall, with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as Guest of Honour.
Singapore Management University (SMU) has achieved its best-ever standing in the QS Asia University Rankings 2026 (AUR), rising 18 places to #122 among 1,526 ranked institutions. This places SMU among the top 8 per cent of universities in Asia — its highest percentile performance to date — even as the number of participating institutions grew substantially by more than 50 per cent from the previous year’s 984.
NLB has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the Singapore Management University (SMU) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), to deliver a number of projects that will enable academic and research expertise, as well as NLB's wealth of resources to be more accessible to all. In particular, it will enable communities and individuals to tap on the network of experts and material to work on solutions for issues of national significance, such as healthcare and education.
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SMU has once again been named one of Singapore’s Best Employers in the Straits Times – Singapore’s Best Employers 2025 rankings, marking the fourth time in five years that the University has received this prestigious recognition.
Ranked 94th overall, and the highest among Singapore’s autonomous universities, SMU also stands among the top four employers in the higher education sector.