According to the results of the latest Joint Graduation Employment Survey of 10,028 full-time, fresh graduates in November last year by SMU, NUS and NTU, graduates from SMU fared the best, 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. Overall, fresh graduates from engineering fields such as computer engineering, engineering science and environmental engineering saw the biggest pay jumps. Some double-degree programmes at NTU as well as the social sciences, accountancy and information systems courses at SMU also saw the highest salary increases.