NBS Global Leaders Programme

Are you ready to Supercharge your future?

Are you ready to be part of Nanyang Business School (NBS)’s very own Signature Programme designed to shape the next generation of global business leaders?

The NBS Global Leaders Programme (NGL) by NBS is one of the Signature Programmes offered at NTU. This programme is for those who are seeking a supercharged business education to launch their careers with leading global employers. It’s all about giving you an enriching, interdisciplinary, and future-ready experience that prepares you for the real-world demands of leading companies in Singapore, Asia, and around the world.

You’ll get to work on real-world projects, receive mentorship from top business leaders and join specially curated credit-bearing workshops in fields like investment banking and management consulting. It’s more than just academics – we focus on leadership, communication, and personal growth, as well as offer financial support that includes an international exchange at a top school like the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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The NBS Global Leaders Programme is here to give you the skills, experience, and opportunities to become a leader with a global mindset and make an impact wherever you choose to be in the future.

Get hands-on experience through summer internship opportunities at companies across the globe. Even better, you’ll spend two semesters at a top international business school like UC Berkeley Haas, immersing yourself in a world-class academic environment. This unique opportunity will broaden your perspective, deepen your cultural insights, and empower you to build invaluable international networks.

Develop your business acumen, gain cutting-edge knowledge and build relevant skillsets at credit-bearing workshops that are jointly developed and delivered by NBS faculty and industry leaders.

Learn directly from senior executives with a structured mentorship programme. You’ll shadow them, understand how they make decisions, and track your growth on the NBS Mentoring Platform.

Build your leadership and communication skills and competencies through targeted coaching and public speaking programmes.

Connect with industry leaders, alumni, and your peers through the NBS Changemakers Club. You’ll get to join industry visits, alumni events, and brown bag sessions, developing skills and growing your network.

In your final year, bring your ideas to life with funding from the Founder’s Project. You’ll also work on live business cases and community projects focusing on sustainability and tech, both locally and abroad, making a real difference along the way.

For any enquiries relating to NBS Global Leaders programme, please email

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Frequently Asked Questions

General

The NBS Global Leaders Programme (NGL) by Nanyang Business School is one of the Signature Scholars Programmes offered at NTU. This programme is designed for high-achieving students who are looking for a holistic educational journey that goes beyond academics to prepare the next generation of business leaders.

One of the key features of the NGL is the curated workshops, led by NBS faculty and leading industry experts, that will give you an edge in your search for internships and full-time jobs. You’ll get the chance to collaborate with industry partners and work on real-life industry challenges, visit companies, and participate in networking sessions. You will also have the chance to learn under the mentorship of senior business executives to prepare you for leadership roles in the world’s top companies.

In addition, you’ll get the chance to create something that has a long-lasting impact on the community in your final year, funded by the Founder’s Project. Whether it’s starting a social enterprise or developing a new app to address a community issue, this project enables you to give back to society in a tangible, impactful way.

NGL goes beyond other scholars programmes in several ways that are intended to help business-oriented scholars realize their best potential after graduation. NGL offers a customised curriculum with core courses redesigned specifically for NGL students. In addition, the NGL programme includes a rich co-curriculum programme that provides you with mentorship sessions with senior executives, and opportunities to network with industry leaders and prominent alumni and be part of NTU’s Leadership Coaching and Development Programme.

NGL is not a standalone programme and will run in parallel with your enrolled programme (e.g. Double Degree in Accountancy and Business). Hence, you will study in your respective programmes, while pursuing enriched academic and co-curricular activities that are being offered by NGL.

Curriculum

In addition to the course requirements for your 4-year degree programme, NGL scholars are expected to undertake the following customised credit and non-credit bearing modules and co-curricular activities in and out of the classroom.

3 Customised NGL Core Courses in year 1

Business Ethics
Enhanced Career Foundation
Communication Management Fundamentals

3 Experiential learning courses for NGL scholars in years 2-4

Strategic Project in Sustainability – a week-long overseas immersion working with a company on current sustainability issues (year 2)
Tech4Good – an Honours College course featuring student collaboration across scholars programmes (year 2)
Founder’s Project – Teams of three NGL students receive S$10,000 to launch a new enterprise or product, likely with a social/community service focus (years 3-4)

Overseas Immersion in year 3

Year-long immersion programme at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business
Cultural Intelligence course runs concurrently with the overseas immersion

International Internships

Opportunities to embark on summer internships across the globe

Mentoring by Top Business Leaders in years 2-4

Structured mentorship programme with senior executives (e.g., C-suite, managing directors, business heads), offering unique real-world insights for career mentoring

Industry Workshops in years 2-4

Credit-bearing courses custom-built to help top students prepare for internships and full-time jobs in three competitive fields: finance (advisory, markets), management consulting, and accounting
Students may choose one workshop, admission by application and interview

Leadership & Communication Training

Bespoke 4-year leadership training programme

Coaching, public speaking programmes, and networking through the Changemakers Club, the club for all scholars at Nanyang Business School

BDEs are a function of your underlying degree programme, and different programmes have different amount of BDEs available.

You will need to maintain a CGPA of no lower than 3.75.

Career

Like other premier scholarship programmes, top employers are aware of the rigorous selection criteria applied to select those students admitted to the NBS Global Leaders Programme. The combination of courses and co-curricular activities in the NBS Global Leaders programme has been specifically designed to prepare students for top career paths in leading firms across multiple industries.

Student Life and Hall Accommodation

Yes. Although guaranteed, you will need to make a formal application for the hall stay.

You will have many opportunities to interact with alumni, industry practitioners and corporate leaders starting early in your NTU programme. Our corporate partners actively recruit students for internships and, while nothing is guaranteed, the early interactions may give NGL students a leg up in the internship recruiting process.

Admissions

NGL is open to all nationalities with outstanding academic records enrolled in a 4-year programme in NBS. You should also possess excellent co-curricular records with strong leadership qualities and potential, as well as solid communication and interpersonal skills that will enable you to reach your full potential in the workplace after graduation.

NBS offers the following 4-year programmes:

If you are not enrolled in a 4-year programme at NBS but are enrolled in a 3-year degree programme at NBS, you can consider applying to NTU’s University Scholars Programme (NTU-USP).

In the NTU Admissions application portal, there will be an option for you to tick to indicate interest in NBS Global Leaders (NGL). Shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly via email and/or WhatsApp for an interview.

Please apply immediately when you are eligible to do so. You may apply by indicating your interest in the scholarship programme when submitting your NTU applications. If you are successfully selected, a spot in the programme will be reserved for you for the year that you are designated for matriculation.

If you have been accepted to NTU and wish to apply for NBS Global Leaders (NGL), you may wish to send us an email via [email protected].

If you have accepted another University but wish to apply for NGL, you can still apply to NTU and indicate your interest in NGL. You may follow up with us by writing to us at [email protected].

In addition to excellent academic results, you should also possess excellent co-curricular records with strong leadership qualities and potential, as well as solid communication and interpersonal skills.

That will depend on which programme you are transferring to. If you are transferring to another 4-year programme within NBS, you will still be part of NBS Global Leaders.

Your NBS Global Leaders scholarship will be withdrawn, and you will be offered a tier of NTU scholarship which is on-par or as close to the benefits of the withdrawn scholarship as possible. You will have to meet the minimum CGPA required by the scholarship at the point of withdrawal.

The scholarship coverage period will follow the new programme’s normal candidature less the number of semesters you have already consumed under the previous scholarship.

Upon withdrawal from the Signature Programme, the scholar will also forgo other non-monetary guarantees/privileges under the Signature Programme.

No, NBS Global Leaders is not a residential college programme. Nonetheless, should you choose to stay in a hall, you will have guaranteed accommodation as part of your scholarship benefit.

Yes, NBS Global Leaders admits international students.

The Nanyang Scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarship offered by NTU that comprises benefits such as tuition fee subsidy, travel grants, living allowances, etc (details available here). As a selective scholarship tailored specifically to business students, the NBS Global Leaders (NGL) programme features customised academic and non-academic elements designed to launch NGL students into successful careers after graduation. To achieve this goal, the NGL programme takes in a selected number of academically excellent aspiring business leaders. The NGL comes with monetary and non-monetary benefits, whereas the Nanyang Scholarship only provides monetary benefits.

The scholarship will cover the normal candidature of a maximum of 8 semesters for a 4-year programme. You will not be covered by the scholarship should you wish to extend your candidature.

Yes, you are welcome to apply to NBS Global Leaders (NGL) even if you are already holding a private scholarship. You will not be offered a NGL scholarship. However, you can be accepted into the NGL as a scholar with no scholarships.

No bond is attached to the NBS Global Leaders scholarship for Singapore citizens. However, a three-year bond is applicable to all Singapore PRs and international students under the MOE Tuition Grant Scheme.