At the age of 49, SMU’s postgraduate student David Koh is among the older students at SMU’s Juris Doctor (JD) programme. He gave up a well-paying job to pursue his dream of going back to the university to study law. SMU’s JD programme is a postgraduate course that is done after a bachelor degree in some other discipline.  The average work experience of its students is four years.

On why he is giving up a well-paying job, Mr Koh said, "It's motivated by an interest to go back to the university - it's in some sense to fulfil an earlier wish that had been set aside for too many years. The motivation is not income.