On Uni Employement rate
From Channel News Asia:
SINGAPORE: 92.2 per cent of students who graduated from the three local universities last year found jobs within six months of graduation, according to figures posted on the Education Ministry’s website on Monday.
The employment rate of graduates from the Singapore Management University (SMU) is the highest among the three local varsities.
96.8 per cent of its graduates found jobs within six months of graduation.
In comparison, about 91 per cent of graduates from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and about 89 per cent of graduates from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) found jobs within six months of graduation.
In terms of salary, graduates from SMU’s Information Systems Management course earned the highest mean monthly salary of about S$3,450.
Graduates from the Business Administration with Honours course at NUS came close with a mean monthly salary of about S$3,400.
At the other end of the scale are graduates from NUS’s Applied Science course. Their mean monthly salary is about S$2,400.
That’s slightly lower than graduates from NTU’s Art, Design and Media course, who have a mean monthly salary of about S$2,430. – CNA/vm
From CNA
Although I am from SMU SIS, I’m not even half convinced about this article. Reasons?
1) SMU system is geared towards equipping students with wayang knowledge and how to sell yourself to employers. This is all very well if you have substance. Many SMU students I have encountered have no substance. They just think they know, living in their own little illusion. We need to do a study on the turnover rate (how many SMU grads were able to stay in their job for more than a year?)
2) Such surveys are done by telephone polling graduates. Given SMU student’s illusion of grandeur, they would not respond or would give false salary figures to these surveys to save their ego.
3) NUS and NTU students are those who really know stuff. Well, most of them. But sadly, NUS and NTU does little to gear their students with skills on seeking employment. They have the talent, but it may take longer to be discovered.
4) Once again, many SMU students have no substance. They just think they do.
As for me, whether I know my IT stuff or not, is up to the reader to decide. I suck at packaging myself to clients and employers, and I’m glad SMU is so effective at teaching how to wayang. I will continue to learn.