SMU chairman Piyush Gupta aims for uni to 'punch above its weight', mirroring his efforts as DBS CEO
SINGAPORE — What do DBS Bank and Singapore Management University have in common? Mr Priyush Gupta, a man with leading roles at DBS and SMU, said that both have the building blocks to become"quintessentially Asian".DBS. We’re big enough to have some heft, some resources and some clout, but we're small enough to not be caught up with orthodoxies,” said Mr Gupta.I found in SMU the same thing that I find in Singapore and I found DBS.
He said that SMU, as a specialised university, does not stack up as well in global rankings as comprehensive universities such as the National University of Singapore or Nanyang Technological University.“If you look at all the rankings of banking, a mid-size bank like DBS will never show up all the big rankings will always go to the banks as size matters and so on,” he said.
“I've changed my . I'm convinced that the people who will succeed are the people who can connect the dots.” “We were eight times oversubscribed… So you can begin to see the people who are already thinking that way. And my bet is that this is where the future of education is going to be,” he said of the new Bachelor of Integrative Studies programme.
This would include having SMU's staff members' applied research recognised alongside their citations, he said, though the exact details have yet to be worked out.Mr Gupta also noted Asia’s growing presence in the world and that the “centre of gravity is shifting to Asia”.
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