The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is planning to terminate its alliance with Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) over dispute involving fee structure.

The UNLV's campus in Singapore wants to increase the tuition fees by 20 percent for non-resident students and more than double for local students.

"We may pull out of Singapore," Richard Linstrom, associate dean at the Singapore campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and managing director, told Las Vegas Review Journal.

For the programs, international students pay around $45,161 (70, 000 Singapore dollars) while students from SIT pay a subsidized fee of $16,393 (20,000 Singapore dollars).

After the approval from Singapore's Ministry of Education and Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, UNLV established its first international campus in Singapore and started functioning in September 2006.

The University is located on the tenth and eleventh floors of the National Library of Singapore.

In collaboration with SIT, the campus offers bachelor's degree program in hotel administration and hospitality management and an executive master's degree in hospitality.

Plus, it provides a variety of overseas internship programs for the Singaporeans.

If the alliance is broken, the university will pullout only after the current and future students are finished with their degree programs.

The partnership between the Universities is valid until 2015.

Linstrom said the consideration to pull out of Singapore had nothing to do with the university's bankruptcy in the U.S. to meet a funding shortfall of $47.5 million.

UNLV's campus in Singapore will be the second American institute to close down , if it pulls out. Recently, New York University Tisch School of the Arts shut down its campus here after suffering financial problems.

If UNLV does close the Singapore campus, the university might think of shifting their campus to Hong Kong or Macau, to hold and expand its business in Asia.