Let’s face it, the only reason Yale-NUS students are sour about the dissolution of their university is probably because they think the word “Yale” somehow makes them atas and exclusive. At the end of the day, these people still earn NUS degrees and if they’re not happy with the nomenclature, it doesn’t matter how much they try to mansplain, we all know why.
Yale-NUS has been an abomination from the start. No Ivy League university has ever tried to taint their reputation by selling out their brand in such a way. When they do so it is almost always set up as a dual-degree program where students are awarded two separate degrees from two separate institutions. Such as Harvard and Berklee, or Columbia and Science Po. As naff as dual degree programs are, they do not constitute a sell out because their cohorts are usually very small, and students would have gotten into either university.
Yale-NUS students would not have gotten into Yale, as much as they would have you believe otherwise.
It’s not as if their degrees are all suddenly being classified as unaccredited. You lose nothing other than kopitiam bragging rights, which honestly I’m sure Yale-NUS alums will still do.
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