The city-state's condensed landscape -- the entire country is squeezed into a land area smaller than most big cities -- means visitors can quickly tour some of Singapore's most famous attractions and be back at the airport in a matter of hours.
But over the past decade, Singapore has undergone a dramatic makeover, as the rich and famous from Asia and beyond debark on its shores in search of a glamorous new home and one of the safest places to park their wealth.
Many Yale professors and alumni feel that Singapore with a longstanding reputation for limiting speech and heavily regulating behavior, such as with its famous chewing-gum ban is not the right fit for a college bearing the institution's name.