Class Profile

Our medical students come from diverse academic backgrounds from top universities all over the world, with degrees ranging from accountancy to life sciences. The diverse skills and wide range of knowledge they bring, enables our students to bring creative problem solving to medical challenges, and helps them to develop as future leaders in clinical care and medical research.


While students with strong science backgrounds typically excel in medical school, students who are academically strong from other fields, including engineering, computer science, business or humanities can also be highly successful.



Top 3 undergraduate institutions our students come from: National University of Singapore, National Technological University and John Hopkins University
24.8% of Duke-NUS MD students have completed or been accepted to additional graduate degree programmes
28% of students are international students
37% of students go into Internal Medicine
Class of 2021 produced 45 student publications and 39 presentations.
558 students have graduated with a MD degree since 2011

All information is accurate as of Sep 2023.

Some of our students share why they chose to study medicine at Duke-NUS.

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