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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Erm I guess u didn’t know that Suss Law Jd is a part time program which means u are able to pay the bills and not be broke like those from the other schools? As far as am concern, NUS is the oldest and most reputable school no doubt, but that’s because it’s “old” and looking at how smu started from scratch, am confident that the government will build Suss law to the best of its potential. In terms of ranking, I really believe that smu and suss is really not that far off internationally. If anyone bothers to check lol. |
Totally inaccurate assumptions. Not to diss on SUSS lah, I know it's meant to fulfill a specific purpose.
NUS,
SMU as "old line" unis generally aren't reputable merely because they are "old". Age is no way a determining factor, otherwise
SMU would've taken 50 years to catch up with
NUS in repute, which is clearly not the case.
It's the cachet of intellectual concentration, research output, repute of the academic body etc.
Let's concentrate only on law as a discipline (i.e. ignore business, accounting, econs, computing).
SMU has done a good job attracting lots of high quality academics in a very short span of time and contributing to industry conversations and CLE programmes (
SMU Law Academy), various think tanks and specialized research centres and cutting edge areas of law, e.g. data governance and AI and law, dispute reso, computational law.
SUSS was set up purely to be a vocational teaching law school. While there will be ancillary or sporadic research output from its faculty for sure (as a byproduct of being a legal academic), there is no way it will attract top notch intellectual capital to output the kinds of research necessary to propel it to a top tier law school.
As a vocational law school, SUSS merely has to be "good enough", and "good enough" means teaching its students sufficiently rigorously to qualify as lawyers in Singapore.
But to pretend that
SMU and SUSS are even on the same trajectory as organizations, or have the same objectives as higher education/tertiary institutes, is widely off the mark. Your starting premise is already erroneous.