Nanyang Technological University is one of the two largest Universities in Singapore. Established in 1991, NTU is one of the fastest-growing research universities in the world. As of July 2012, Microsoft Academic Search website ranks NTU's overall engineering, according to the number publications and H-Index criteria, as the world's 12th since the last 10 years. Times Higher Education's world university rankings place NTU in the 50th position according to its 2011-2012 Engineering and Technology subject ranking.NTU's share of competitive research funding has increased sevenfold since 2005.
