Eyebrows were raised at the recent disclosure of the cost of a Yale-NUS College (YNC) liberal arts degree: tuition came to $90,800 a year, with the Government footing $70,300 for each Singaporean student.
This is over three times the government subsidy for an arts or science degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
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