Higher salaries for university graduates – an increase of $100 to $3,300

SMU Provost Professor Lily Kong commented on the latest Joint Graduation Employment Survey by SMU, NUS and NTU. She said that more than 80% of the students who took part in the survey were convinced that SMU has prepared them well in the areas of their career and employability. Prof Kong added that through SMU’s internship programme, which is compulsory, many SMU undergraduates are given the opportunities to showcase their talent and are talent-spotted and offered jobs even before they graduate. SMU graduates fared the best out of the three universities, with 93.7 per cent of them being employed within 6 months of finishing their final examinations. The figure was nearly 90 per cent for NUS and NTU. SMU graduates also earned the most, with a record mean gross monthly salary of S$3,624 since the university's pioneer cohort graduated in 2004.