“The pioneer batch of 157 students from 26 countries — 97 of them Singaporeans — was selected from a pool of over 10,000 applicants and began lessons this month in temporary facilities. The college’s own purpose-built campus with residential facilities will open in 2015 and is designed to have a full capacity of 1,000 students. The college is the first established by Yale outside its campus in New Haven, Connecticut.”
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