MSc in BMI (Current Students)
Overview
The Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics (MSc in BMI) is offered by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUSMed) as a full time (1 year) or part-time (2 years) postgraduate degree programme by Coursework with specialisation in Analytics or Hospital Management.
The programme aims to impart to students a suite of core skills including evidence-based clinical decision making, machine learning, data visualisation, effective communication, strategic leadership, and entrepreneurship. Students would be trained to reason, critically analyse, and subsequently evaluate the effectiveness of clinical decision support systems, lead and implement production and strategic clinical innovations or projects.
Student may choose to study as a full-time or part-time student up to 2 years and 4 years respectively.
- Not all the courses are offered in the same semester or in the same format every year. Students are responsible in ensuring that they do not register for courses with any timetable clashes, and are able to attend classes and sit for examinations as scheduled.
- Students may refer to NUSMODS for the course timetable and exam time.
Graduation Requirement
- Read and pass five core courses and five elective courses that are in the course list.
- Obtained a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 out of 5.0 or, equivalently, an average grade of at least B-.
Continuation Requirement
For continuation of candidature a student must obtain satisfactory progress during his/her candidature (Coursework), i.e.,
- Student will be issued a warning for any semester in which his/her GPA falls below 3.00. If in the following semester, the student’s GPA again falls below 3.00 but is above 2.50, he/she will be placed on probation.
- Student’s candidature may be terminated and refused re-admission if he/she obtains
- GPA < 1.5 in the first semester of study; or
- GPA < 2.50 for two consecutive semesters of study; or
- GPA < 3.00 for three consecutive semesters of study
- GPA for continuation is computed based on all modules read, be it pass or fail.
Tuition fee for 2022 intake
- Fee structure for the 2022 intake.
- Students who wish to read more than 10 modules should note that the per module fees are paid to the module host department and may not be refunded if they decide to drop the extra module(s). Application for the extra module(s) is also subject to approval by the module host department.
Miscellaneous student fees
- This is compulsory and payable every semester, for which information can be found on the NUS Registar’s office website.
Payment of Fees
- Payment can be made via GIRO for convenience.
Other acceptable modes of payment include cheque, bank draft/cashier’s order, credit card, internet banking. - Cheque/bank draft/cashier’s order to be made in Singapore currency and payable to “National University of Singapore”.
- Penalty charges will be levied on late payments.
- Students have to register courses on the ModReg@EduRec system.
- Students will bear the consequences of their decisions in adding/dropping courses, which may result in a delay in their graduation if not planned properly.
- Not all courses are offered in the same semester or in the same format every year.
- A full time student may read up to five courses per regular semester (not including essential courses pre-designated by the programme). Part time student may read up to 2 courses per semester.
- Students are responsible in ensuring that they do not register for courses with any timetable clashes, and are able to attend classes and sit for examinations as scheduled. Course timetable can be found here.