Graduates from SMU fared the best with 93.8 per cent of them being employed within six months of their final examinations. The figure was nearly 90 per cent for NUS and NTU. This is according to the results of a joint graduate employment survey of 10,904 fresh graduates in November last year by the three universities – SMU, NUS and NTU. SMU graduates also earned the most, with a mean gross monthly salary of $3,722. Their peers from NUS and NTU took home $3,541 and $3,424 respectively. Median monthly salaries for university graduates last year rose to a new high of $3,360, up from $3,300 for the class of 2015.