The National University of Singapore (NUS) will set up its sixth overseas college in Beijing in August, adding to its other colleges in entrepreneural hubs around the world like Sweden, India and the United States.

Its first batch of 10 undergraduates will go on a year-long programme interning with start-ups in the IT industry and study part-time at the partner Tsinghua University.

The presidents of both NUS and Tsinghua University recently signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the Beijing college under the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme.

This is NOC's second college in China and its sixth college worldwide including Philidelphia, Stockholm and Sweden.

Close to 150 NUS students participate in the NOC programme every year.

Started in 2002, the programme aims to nurture students into independent self-starters and eventually successful entrepreneurs.