Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU or Nanyang Tech) is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore. Its lush 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village of the world's first 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in 2010. Ranked 47th globally by QS World University Rankings in 2012, a jump of 11 places from its 2011 ranking, NTU is the fastest-rising university in the QS global top 50, and 4th in the world among young elite universities, according to QS Top 50 Under 50. In October 2012, NTU entered the Times Higher Education World University Rankings' top 100 list, coming in at 86th position after moving up 83 places from its 2011 ranking of 169. 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, with significant funds devoted to the setting up of two Research Centres of Excellence – the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering.
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