It's not true NTU is a 'dumping ground' for engineering
students. This is an overstatement, a term the school doesn't
deserve, and often misused by utterly uninformed people. NTU is
largely a university specialised in technology based degrees, it
can afford to take in a much larger cohort of engineering students
becoz it have the space and facilities that NUS dont have. So its
down to the issue of demand and supply, students will find it
easier to get into NTU engineering than NUS engineering. However
that does not undermine the quality of NTU's engineering
degree.
Given the standards required of NTU's engineering faculty, students
with below par performance, meaning a GPA of less than 2.0 after 4
semester will be terminated from their studies. And students who
fail their core subjects, have to retake them b4 they graduate. In
fact, it's much harder to graduate with an engineering degree from
NTU than NUS. So end of the day, you still get qualified engineers
coming out of NTU.
