The latest Joint Graduate Employment Survey released on February 27, which involved 10,126 graduates last year from SMU, NUS and NTU, revealed that the overall employment rate dropped to 89.1 per cent for last year’s graduates, versus 89.3 per cent in 2013. SMU said that the mean gross monthly salary of their graduates in full-time permanent jobs was a record S$3,592 since its pioneer cohort graduated in 2004. Based on mean gross salaries, the top earners last year were from Accountancy and Business, Aerospace Engineering as well as Computer Engineering programmes.