Until recently it was known mainly for its strength in electronics and engineering. The accumulation of expertise since its establishment in 1955 has placed it in the world's top 100 universities (2008 Times Higher Education Supplement) and also led to it being the preferred partner in a host of international collaborations. NTU is now enhancing its strengths to adapt to new challenges requiring more and new interdisciplinary research. It is also reinventing itself as a broad-spectrum, research university. "It's an engineering-based university which includes one of the best Business Schools in the region, with the addition of an art and design school, humanities, chemistry, physics and mathematics, and the range of biological sciences," says Bertil Andersson, NTU's Provost. "We are now becoming even more research-intensive and competitive, winning new sources of government support, including support for two new large-scale initiatives in earth science and water resources. These are giving momentum to the transformation."
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