in 2006, the nevada system of higher education board of regents raised the minimum gpa to 3.0 for admittance to unlv. unlv opened its first international campus in singapore, where the william f. harrah college of hotel administration offered a bachelor's degree program in hospitality management. unlv planned to end its partnership with the singapore institute of technology by 2015, due to economic issues such as rising tuition in las vegas and the falling value of the u.s. dollar in singapore.