ONE of the country's biggest private schools, Kaplan Singapore, has announced plans to build a second campus by next year as part of a wide-ranging expansion.
Kaplan, which has about 15,000 students at its Cuppage Road campus, is looking for room for 5,000 more students.
The president of the school's Asia-Pacific division, Mr Mark Coggins, said last Friday that Kaplan plans to target polytechnic graduates and international students to fill the spaces.
The second campus will be in the city and have 18 classrooms, on top of the existing 31 classrooms in Cuppage Road. The school plans to pick a location by early next year.
Kaplan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, has over one million students and 27,000 employees in about 600 locations worldwide.
The Singapore campus offers financial training, accounting and business courses, among others.
The new campus will allow the school to offer more programmes in business, information and technology, finance and risk management.
Like most private schools, most of Kaplan's programmes are offered through tie-ups with foreign universities. The school plans to take ownership of more courses by next year by offering degrees and diplomas from Kaplan University in the United States or Kaplan Business School, which has branches in three Australian cities.
